Here you’ll find free learning activities, lessons, downloadables, and videos for students in Grades K-12 to keep learning and growing at grade level.
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Meet Juliana Urtubey, elementary teacher and the 2021 National Teacher of the Year, who is active and informed on educational policies and the importance of bilingual education.
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Learn how COVID has influenced education leaders' work since spring 2020, the bright spots they see coming out of the pandemic, and the challenges they now face.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
May 07, 2021
School will soon be out. Give your students a special send-off with these virtual end-of-school-year celebration ideas.
Shaped Staff
April 30, 2021
Meet Angelica Moreno, a Spanish kindergarten teacher at the Dual Language Academy at Dr. Sue Shook Elementary in El Paso, Texas. This week's discussion includes dual language learnering, the El Paso Walmart shooting, and the school's reaction to losing one of their own to COVID-19.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
May 04, 2021
Keep your students learning and engaged with these strategies and activities to prevent summer slide from HMH's Chief Research Officer.
Francie Alexander
Chief Research Officer, HMH
May 17, 2021
An educator shares four trauma-informed teaching strategies to improve instruction for students who need it based on her experience across different schools.
Jenn Evans, M.Ed.
Senior Product Marketing Manager for Supplemental & Intervention Solutions, HMH
May 14, 2021
Here’s how schools can address the rise in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islanders to ensure students’ safety and well-being.
Shaped Staff
May 14, 2021
Confronting bias in ourselves and in our classrooms is an important ongoing process. Help combat discrimination in all its forms with this collection of resources.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
May 12, 2021
Celebrate Juneteenth in the classroom. Explore Juneteenth activities and lesson plans for elementary, middle school, and high school students.
Shaped Staff
May 12, 2021
Watch interviews with education leaders and business owners about culturally responsive education, recovery in schools, and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
Shaped Staff
May 11, 2021
Use this lesson to teach students about the order of operations: complete operations in parentheses, multiply and divide from left to right, and add and subtract from left to right.
May 07, 2021
Incorporate Notice & Note Signposts into your reading or ELA curriculum with these strategies and tips for teachers.
Zoe Zolbrod
Director, Learning Experience Design, Literature and Language Arts, HMH
May 06, 2021
Dr. Chris Emdin says pedagogy, or the science of teaching and learning, should be about protesting the wrongs that have been done to young people in society.
Shaped Staff
May 05, 2021
Want to help your students develop their organizational, analytical, and research skills? Teach them how to write an expository paragraph.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
May 05, 2021
Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) in math, or culturally responsive math teaching (CRMT), is an important topic year-round. These strategies describe ways to create or adapt math content so that it considers, affirms, and validates students' varying identities and contexts.
Shannon Roberts
Manager, HMH’s Connected Leadership, Engagement, and Development Rotation Program
May 03, 2021
East End Community School breaks down how Model Schools introduced them to the program Rise and Shine, which helped their students discover new interests and passions.
Boyd Marley
Principal, East End Community School
May 03, 2021
To mark Teacher Appreciation Week, we've got some new poster designs for your classroom, plus a few bonus cards for anyone that wants to thank a special teacher in their life.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
April 30, 2021
David Jamison, also known as “The Dope Educator,” believes love and human interaction are the foundation of any lesson plan. He reflects on the valuable lessons he learned while teaching during the pandemic.
David Jamison II
Fifth-Grade ELA Teacher, Shelby County School District, Tennessee
April 29, 2021
How can we introduce more emotion to the AI space? Our guest this week, Rana el Kaliouby, seeks to answer that question. Founder and CEO of Affectiva and author of Girl Decoded breaks down ethics and equity in tech.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
April 27, 2021
Learn how Jones County Public Schools adopted digital solutions to prioritize personalized learning and narrow COVID-19 learning gaps.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
April 26, 2021
Here are five steps educators can take to offset the learning gap and improve students’ chances for long-term success.
Dr. Bonnie Cochran
Director of Academic Planning and Analytics, HMH
April 22, 2021
Students typically experience a "summer slide" when returning to school in the fall, but this year, the interrupted learning could be much deeper.
John "Jack" Lynch
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, HMH
April 21, 2021
