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    Rachel Stack

    Rachel serves as Great Minds' Chief Academic Officer. She leads a team of teacher–writers who craft coherent, knowledge-rich content. Rachel joined Great Minds in 2015 after serving as vice president, Literacy Content and Instruction, for Scholastic Education. She has more than decade of experience as a teacher. Rachel began her career teaching third and eighth grade in New York City. She then taught high school world and American literature in Pittsburgh. Rachel received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Vassar College as well as a master’s degree in secondary education from Hunter College, City University of New York.

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    Equity

    Supporting Equity Through a Knowledge-Building Approach to ELA

    August 23, 2019
    Great Minds® embraces the research that knowledge building should start at the outset of a student’s education. But what does that look like in the...
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    Back to School

    Keeping Your New (School) Year’s Resolutions

    August 15, 2017
    Most people begin new year’s resolutions in January. But teachers know: summer’s end is when the new year really begins. As summer days draw close to...
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    Success Stories

    Finding The Joy In Rigor

    February 3, 2017
    This holiday season, my thoughts are in Paris. Not Paris, France. Paris, Kentucky, where teachers are now hard at work on their second year...

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