“We’re thrilled to be able to support public education through community service,” said Mike Lavelle, K–12 president, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. “We are confident that our innovative research-based products will improve student performance throughout the Bay Area.”

Among the 8,000 books distributed were mathematics, science and language textbooks, as well as leveled readers. The Company is currently organizing a second textbook donation event, to take place in Southern California.

The Bay Area giveaway comes on the heels of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s September 21 District-wide Learning Village launch in Bakersfield, California. Learning Village is a revolutionary online educational platform and powerful curriculum management system that connects teachers through a central portal, enabling them to share lesson plans, best practices, instructional strategies and other resources that can improve instruction, academic performance and district-wide collaboration.

Bakersfield received a customized version of Learning Village, and is the first district to implement the twenty-first-century learning solution District-wide.