How Can You Engage All Learners and Boost Literacy?

When it comes to teaching English Language Arts, so much has changed over the years—the Common Core State Standards, rigorous assessments, and more...

Beaufort County Schools Spotlight on Local TV Station

“Stop watering it down and build a ladder up. … Keep your bar high, but let’s provide scaffolding to get students to that bar.” —Suzanne Brantley,...

Keeping Your New (School) Year’s Resolutions

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...

Artists Make Art

For this second interview in our Author/Illustrator blog series, we enjoyed an enlightening conversation with Melissa Sweet, illustrator of one of...

The Knowledge Story

Over the past several weeks, Great Minds® teacher–writer Emily Gula examined the five Content Stages by connecting with Wit & Wisdom® teachers around...

Distilling the Essence

Great Minds® teacher-writer Emily Gula continues her conversations with students and teachers around the country to learn about their success with...

Read, Repeat, Reveal

In this third installment of a five-part blog series, Great Minds® teacher-writer Emily Gula connects with students and teachers around the country...

Get Organized

In this second installment of a five-part blog series, Great Minds® teacher-writer Emily Gula connects with students and teachers around the country...

Joseph Bruchac on the Importance and Impact of Identity

In this first of a series of interviews with Wit & Wisdom® teacher-writers and the authors whose work is featured in the curriculum, we caught up...

What a Wonderful World

In this five-part blog series, teacher-writer Emily Gula connects with students and teachers around the country to learn about their successes using...

Striving For Greatness

LaKendra Butler is the founder and school leader of STRIVE Collegiate Academy, a diverse charter middle school for Grades 5–8 in Nashville,...

Finding The Joy In Rigor

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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