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Brian R. Wise

Brian Wise is an English Department chair at Deerfield High School in the suburbs of Chicago. Previously, he spent 16 years as a teacher and literacy coach at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

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Brian R. Wise

Brian Wise is an English Department chair at Deerfield High School in the suburbs of Chicago. Brian helps to lead and supervise English teachers, including their literacy intervention programs. Prior to becoming a department chair, he spent 16 years as a teacher and literacy coach at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. He is a coauthor on the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher book series.

Brian earned a bachelor’s degree in English education from Boston University, a master’s degree in English from DePaul University, a reading specialist master’s degree from Concordia University Chicago, and a master’s degree in principal preparation from Concordia University Chicago.


Presentations by Brian R. Wise

  • Disciplinary Literacy: Creating a Classroom of “Insiders”
  • Frontloading for Success: Why Pre-Reading Matters
  • Asking the Right Questions: Developing an Inquiry Mindset
  • Wide Reading: Choice and Breadth in the Classroom
  • Digital Literacy vs. Digital Skills
  • #LiveLoveLiteracy: A Goody Bank of Literacy Instructional Tools
  • Inquiry & Reluctant Readers: Engaging the Next Generation
  • Mind the Gaps: Building Literacy Interventions
  • Connecting: The Synergy of Poetry & Motion