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Oakwood Schools touts new 'Wit and Wisdom' ELA curriculum, expands STEM training
Summary
District leaders and teachers described classroom results from the Wit and Wisdom ELA curriculum, tiered phonics interventions and a 30‑minute daily Win Time block, and announced expanded STEM partnerships and building‑level STEM champions to broaden coding and robotics offerings.
Dr. Gupta said Oakwood Schools has seen rapid classroom uptake of its new ELA curriculum and expanded STEM training, pointing to teacher training, targeted phonics interventions and student work as evidence of progress.
Emmy King, a third‑grade teacher at Smith Elementary, told the audience that implementing the district’s ELA curriculum, Wit and Wisdom, “has been a game changer.” She described lessons that combine texts, art and video to deepen students’ background knowledge, and said students now use Socratic seminars and evidence from readings and media to write and defend four‑paragraph opinion essays about topics such as the Apollo 11 mission.
That classroom work is part of a broader literacy strategy, Dr.…
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