Early Adopter Continues to Make Progress with Wit & Wisdom®

Mad River Local Schools was one of the first districts to adopt Wit & Wisdom®, the English language arts curriculum from Great Minds®. Now in its...

Great Minds Seeks Wit & Wisdom® Professional Development Fellows

For Immediate Release Contact: Chad Colby: chad.colby@greatminds.org Tuesday, November 19, 2019—Great Minds® is seeking Professional Development...

The “Joy of Learning” Infuses Classrooms, Buoys Teachers

When instructional coach Amy Holbrook describes the impact of Wit & Wisdom® on the Mad River Local Schools outside Dayton, Ohio, the word “joy” comes...

Students Gain with Engaging Content

Center City Public Charter Schools (PCS) opened in 2008 as the first Catholic-to-charter school conversion in the United States. It is unaffiliated...

Engaging, Relevant Lessons Lead to Achievement Gains

When did the leaders of Brooklyn Charter School know that Wit & Wisdom® was having an impact beyond the impressive gains in achievement test scores,...

In Baltimore, a School-Library Partnership is a Recipe for Success

What if a student could not only read Green Eggs and Ham but also explore cooking green eggs and ham?

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’...

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