ICYMI: NBC News Highlights Curricula as Pillar of Baltimore Blueprint for Success

For Immediate Release Contact: Chad Colby: Chad.Colby@greatminds.org Friday, Sept. 27, 2019—An NBC News story highlights high quality curricula as a...

The CASEL Framework in Action: How Wit & Wisdom® Integrates Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning

By Elizabeth Bailey, Hailey Basiouny, Nora Graham, Melissa Thompson, and Margaret W i lson

Supporting Equity Through a Knowledge-Building Approach to ELA

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...

Wit & Wisdom® Texts Now Available on DonorsChoose.org

For Immediate Release Contact: Chad Colby: chad.colby@greatminds.org Monday, Aug. 5, 2019—Teachers now have the option of using DonorsChoose.org to...

Wit & Wisdom "Just Clicked"

In Ohio's Mad River Local Schools, the Wit & Wisdom® philosophy of "teach more meaningful English" is taking root across the district. Mad River’s...

What Inspires Students to Love Reading? (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the definition of volume of reading as well as why volume of reading is critical to building students’...

What Inspires Students to Love Reading? (Part 1)

What exactly is a volume of reading? If you put the day’s schedule on the board for students to read, is that a volume of reading? Is reading a...

Old Painting, New Ideas

My daughter is bright, creative, and loves history. She’s intellectually curious. She’s also dyslexic. That meant for a frustrating school...

A SEASON OF GRATITUDE

Mindy Dorfman is in her 25th year of teaching at Richard Wright Elementary in North Philadelphia. She hastaught nearly every grade there, and has now...

Your Guide to Surviving Your First Twitter Chat

Three Tips for Twitter Chat Success Educational Twitter chats are a great opportunity to grow your professional network from the comfort of your own...

Building a Classroom Community of Readers

Do you remember that look of excitement and joy on your students’ faces when they discovered “that book” that was the catalyst for their love of...

How to Use Visual Art to Build Literacy

Before becoming an elementary school teacher, I was an art educator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. My goal was to make modern art...

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