Leading Public Charter Network Embraces Rigorous ELA and Math Curricula

IDEA Public Schools is one of the largest and most successful public charter networks in the country. Started in 2000 in the Rio Grande Valley in...

Kyair Butts on Making Distance Learning Work

Great Minds® checked in with Baltimore City Public Schools Grade 6 teacher and 2019 Baltimore Teacher of the Year Kyair Butts on how he’s making...

Wit & Wisdom Grades K–2 from Great Minds Earn Top EdReports Rating

For Immediate Release Contact: Chad Colby: Chad.Colby@greatminds.org Monday, March 2, 2020—Grades K–2 of Wit & Wisdom®, the English language arts...

Thoughtful Wit & Wisdom® Implementation Has Been Key to Buy-In and Success

Talk about commitment. The four Grade 3 teachers at Grass Valley Elementary School in Humboldt County, Nevada, meet at lunch every day to plan their...

After Early Success in Grade 3, Other Teachers Wanted Wit & Wisdom® for Their Students Too

Shawn Kimble, superintendent of rural Lauderdale County Schools northwest of Memphis, was planning to roll out Wit & Wisdom® one grade at a time. Fat...

My Students and I Are Just Blown Away

Jen Arellano was drawn to education after volunteering to teach reading in her son’s first grade classroom. She already knew how to write. And she...

Seeing the Joy in Poetry

The first book of poetry I fell in love with was by the great modernist poet William Carlos Williams.

Minimally Adequate, Meet Maximally Amazing

The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, just ran a series on disparate education quality and poor student outcomes in South Carolina...

Eureka Math and Wit & Wisdom at Meeting Street Academy

Eureka Math and Wit & Wisdom Are a Winning Combination Empowering Teachers and Students and Changing Lives Along the Way

Student Achievement Soars with “Unapologetically Rigorous” Curriculum

Student Achievement Soars with Great Minds®“Unapologetically Rigorous” Curriculum Wit & Wisdom® Pilot School Sees Three Years of Consistent Student...

Rural School Posts Major Gains in English Language Arts with Wit & Wisdom®

Angela Patzer remembers the day she realized that Linford Elementary School’s new English language arts curriculum, Wit & Wisdom®, was having a...

Wit & Wisdom® and Eureka Math® Help California Charter School Network Continue Strong Gains in Math and ELA

The Scholarship Prep Public Schools network in southern California continues to make strong gains in student achievement in math and English language...

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