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Catherine Schmidt

Catherine Schmidt supports districts, states, and partners in implementing college and career-ready standards in ELA and Literacy in the elementary grades. She also serves as a Title Editor and Author on the Great Minds® Geodes team and is grateful to be a teacher on special assignment.

Catherine Schmidt

Reading Instruction: What's Missing, How to Fill in the Gaps

Educators have cause for concern. Only about a third of Grade 4 students are proficient readers. A disproportionate number of low-income students...

Reading Instruction Today

Despite a lot of other national news dominating headlines, reading instruction in the early grades has been getting plenty of attention from major...

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