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Virginia Day

Virginia Day is a Great Minds Implementation Leader for Humanities, supporting districts in New England. An advocate for student success, she spent over 12 years as a reading specialist/special educator in New Hampshire. Virginia is passionate in her belief that all students deserve access to high-quality curriculum and in sharing the Great Minds mission that every child is capable of greatness.

Virginia Day

A District That Moves Together

How Dublin Unified created a learning foundation with lessons for other California districts

Beyond Adoption: Why Curriculum Adoption is Not the Endpoint

Major curriculum adoptions are often filled with optimism; however, across districts, curriculum adoption is often treated as a finish line. But...

The Long Haul: What Real Curriculum Implementation Looks Like

If adoption is the starting point, implementation is the journey, and it is longer and more complex than many systems anticipate. It is easy to...

The Support That Stays: How Pohakea Elementary Turned Ongoing Partnership into Classroom Results

When Eryn Muraoka describes her school’s approach to literacy, she doesn’t start with scores. She starts with a young student holding up a book.

Supporting Student Discourse Through Math Instruction

"No offense, Ms. Hopkinson, but I learn better from my friends' thinking than I do from you."

Cognitively Guided Instruction in Action: Elicit, Interpret, and Advance Student Thinking

Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) begins with a simple but powerful belief: students’ thinking matters, and instruction should be designed to...

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