Great Minds

10/15/2026

10/14/2026

🌟 Classroom Spotlight 🌟

Blacklick Elementary 4th graders in Ohio brought their Wit & Wisdom curriculum to life with a hands-on learning experience presented in partnership with Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Students explored how the heart works while also learning about careers in health care.

🏫: Gahanna-Jefferson Schools
🔗: https://ow.ly/yFL150ZWTFY

10/14/2026

Join us in Denver for this year’s NCSM + NCTM conferences!

We’re celebrating the confidence, clarity, and creativity that define effective math classrooms, while highlighting bold leadership strategies, modern tools, and classroom-tested routines that empower educators to lead with confidence.

Stop by and discover ways to spark aha moments that last.

🧡 NCSM: https://ow.ly/u0xJ50ZXA5G
🩷 NCTM: https://ow.ly/QvnH50ZXA5F

Attending either of the conferences? Make sure to bookmark this post as a reminder. See you there!

10/13/2026

We'll answer this one live. ⬇️

Join us tomorrow for a free webinar where we’ll explore the decoding threshold and how purposeful fluency practices, such as echo and choral reading, can help students in grades 3-12 access complex texts.

District literacy leads, save your spot today! https://ow.ly/axyN50ZVzV8

10/13/2026

Fluency instruction is needed beyond third grade and with more advanced texts over time. 📚💫

10/11/2026

Some days are just challenging — a tough page, a tricky problem. This week's download is a tear-off sheet for exactly those moments: a small reminder a student can grab, keep, and come back to. No lesson attached. Just something to hold onto, right when they need it most.🌟
https://ow.ly/aBBk50ZVQAQ

10/10/2026

Do you remember a teacher who believed in you? Somewhere out there, a former student could answer that question with your name on it. ❤️

10/10/2026

💻🔗: https://ow.ly/1Nrc50ZVvuQ

10/09/2026

Plot twist: the reading skill we stop teaching after 3rd grade is one that could help struggling readers the most.

Save this for your next planning period, or send it to the teacher down the hall who's been looking for a fluency routine to support their students.

Which of these four are you trying first?

10/09/2026

What does it take to get reading instruction right?

In our new episode, Pat Roberts and Nancy Blair share the story behind AIM Academy and AIM Institute for Learning & Research. What began with two mothers searching for better answers for their daughters grew into a school built around evidence-based instruction and an institute working to bring reading research into classrooms across the country.

We talk about early signs of reading difficulty, the cost of waiting, teacher knowledge, progress monitoring, integrated literacy instruction, and the partnerships between researchers and educators that have shaped AIM’s work for twenty years.

Listen to “Reading Instruction Done Right” wherever you get your podcasts.
https://ow.ly/nPfx50Zuoui

Comment AIM and we’ll send you the episode plus links to explore AIM Academy and AIM Institute.