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Discover National Native American Heritage Month activities that you can use in your classroom during the month of November and all year long. Plus, learn about guiding principles for successfully integrating Native American content into your curriculum.
Mother-daughter duo, Darla Moyers and Renae Kuhn from WV and VA, share a love of education. On this episode of Teachers in America, they share their teaching journeys and touch on topics ranging from student agency to blended learning.
Try these classroom accommodations for students with dyslexia to provide equitable access to content
Dr. Amy Endo
Education Research Director, Supplemental & Intervention Language & Literacy
September 27, 2022
Looking for Thanksgiving ideas for school? Explore 9 Thanksgiving classroom activities, games, and crafts to help you celebrate the holiday.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
November 08, 2019
Explore the relationship between numbers in math, including multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
November 09, 2022
Teachers in America podcast guest, Whitney Aragaki, shares her favorite fun team-building activities for teachers and staff!
Whitney Aragaki
Shaped Contributor
Two ways to address the challenges in education are by strengthening school culture and improving the system.
Dr. Linda Lucey
Associate Partner, ICLE
Matthew Thouin
Lead Instructional Designer, ICLE
Try these real-life math problems with solutions in your classroom, which are open-ended projects with a range of possible answers.
Shaped Staff
Discover quick and simple reading comprehension assessment strategies that can be seamlessly incorporated into a lesson.
Renee Behring
Education Research Director, Core Literacy & Early Learning
Dr. Vytas Laitusis
Education Research Director, Supplemental & Intervention Math
ICLE Associate Partner Venola Mason shares her expertise on social and emotional learning for teachers.
Venola Mason
Associate Partner, ICLE
Use these SEL World Kindness Day activities and ideas for the International Day for Tolerance to ensure that every day includes a little (or a lot of!) kindness in your school.
Christine Condon
Shaped Editor-in-Chief
Based in the science of reading, sound walls in the classroom help educators reinforce the importance of explicitly teaching the skills of letter-sound correspondence.
Jennifer Prescott
Shaped Contributor
Find rigor and relevance rubrics that help teachers and administrators evaluate instructional design and student learning.
Listen to Method to the Mathness, a podcast made for math educators everywhere.
Jennifer Lenhardt
Lead Instructional Designer, HMH Professional Services
Nikki La Londe
Breaking numbers apart in math can have many mathematical meanings. See how to break numbers apart using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Alyssa Fuller
Math Intervention Teacher; Learning Experience Designer, HMH
Learn about math talk, or the discussions that students and teachers have while engaged in learning math.
Jennifer Lenhardt
Lead Instructional Designer, HMH Professional Services
In this blog, we answer the question, What Is the difference between MTSS vs. RTI?
Jennifer Prescott
Shaped Contributor
Explore the differences of science vs. engineering and how to ensure that K-12 science students receive an engineering education.
Dr. Cary Sneider
NGSS Writing Team Leader, Associate Research Professor at Portland State University
Dr. Suzanne Jimenez
Director of Academic Planning and Data Analytics at HMH
Teaching middle school writing can help students learn the value of their words.
Jennifer Prescott
Shaped Contributor
Try these phonological awareness strategies and phonics strategies in the classroom to help support developing readers
Renee Behring
Education Research Director, Core Literacy & Early Learning
Dr. Carol Jago explains the importance of background knowledge for reading comprehension and shares strategies for helping students build that knowledge.
Carol Jago
HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA
What is a personalized learning plan (PLP)? Find out the answer to this question, plus receive examples of PLPs.
Jennifer Prescott
Shaped Contributor
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