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Facebook Live Recaps: Diversifying Reading Materials and Practices

It’s powerful and necessary for children to see themselves represented in literature.

Julia Roch

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Supercharge Your Conferring: Focus on Goals, Strategies, and Feedback

In the new school year, prioritizing purposeful and consistent conferring will bring power to the literacy classroom.

Jennifer Serravallo
Author

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Giving Students the Keys to Control Their Own Learning Outcomes

What happens when students own their learning? Learn about the benefits of allowing students to control their own learning outcomes.

Dustin Bindreiff, Ed.D.
Special Education Coordinator, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools; Former Consultant for Mindset Works

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Facebook Live Recaps: Turning Students Into Strong Writers and Speakers

Experts share how to best engage students in the intricacies of writing and speaking.

Julia Roch

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Maintaining the 180 Spirit Cycle—Part 1: Take Time for You

Practitioners must observe, test, refine, develop, and teach to yield a high effect to impact learning.

Noelle Morris
Senior Director Community Engagement, HMH; Host of HMH Learning Moments: Teachers in America Podcast

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K-12 Recent News Roundup: August 3, 2018

Stay up to date on the education issues that matter to you.

Julia Roch

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Facebook Live With Writable: Turning Students Into Active Peer Reviewers

A teacher educator explains how a guided practice platform allows students to become more active peer reviewers.

Julia Roch

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Facebook Live Recaps: Exploring Reading From an Expert Lens

How can early education teachers and elementary educators inspire curiosity about books among their students?

Julia Roch

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ILA 2018: A Recap in Tweets

A glimpse at the incredible conversations and activities that took place at the four-day conference in Austin, Texas.

Julia Roch

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Recap: Facebook Live With Jim O'Neill

HMH's Jim O’Neill discusses the new Into Learning programs and how they were developed in collaboration with teachers.

Julia Roch

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Spelling Usually Makes Sense: The Logic of Sound and Meaning Patterns

Dr. Shane Templeton
Foundation Professor Emeritus, Literacy Studies, University of Nevada, Reno; Into Reading Program Author

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Why and How Reading Is in Crisis

Carol Jago
HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

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MSC 2018: What We Heard From Education Experts

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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Rigor Without Mortis: Writing in Today’s Classrooms

Dr. Joyce Armstrong Carroll
National Writing Consultant; Co-Director of Abydos Literacy Learning

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Recap: Facebook Live With Literacy Expert Carol Jago

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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Does This Matter to Me?

Dustin Bindreiff, Ed.D.
Special Education Coordinator, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools; Former Consultant for Mindset Works

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Early Learning Webinar Series: Key Takeaways

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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From Refugee to Skilled Reader and Emmy Winner: Catching Up With Shadrack Boakye

In this HMH interview with Shadrack Boakye, a former READ 180 award winner, we catch up with Shadrack on his learning journey, what continues to inspire him and his dreams for the future.

Caitlin Henault
Senior Communications Associate, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt