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Engage your child in an exploration of how great things can happen when we work together with these reading activities for Grades 1-2.

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Help students in Grades 3–12 tap into what they're feeling with an informal writing activity.

Janna Sakson
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Students will learn from reading diary entries written on the Oregon Trail how such writings preserve history and bring the past to life.

Glenn Greenberg
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Andrea Barnes is retiring after nearly 30 years in the classroom. In this post she shares parting words of wisdom for future teachers, especially the need for collaboration during the current COVID-19 crisis.

Richard Blankman
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Help your middle schoolers sharpen their writing and critical thinking skills with activities including a poetry scavenger hunt and an opportunity for them to invent a board game.

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High schoolers can sharpen their writing skills with activities including a reflective essay on the past school year and a playlist for a book they read.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura y aprendizaje para cinco días con las que su hijo podrá conocer más sobre las mariposas, las abejas y otros insectos.

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Explore five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of butterflies, bees, and other bugs.

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura y aprendizaje para cinco días con las que su hijo podrá conocer más sobre las mariposas, las abejas y otros insectos.

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Tammy Clementi, National Director of Planning and Analytics for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, shared her perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic will shape school as we know it.

Brenda Iasevoli
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Welcome to Incredible Insects! We’ll provide five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of butterflies, bees, and other bugs.

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Help students gain greater understanding of measures of central tendency and dispersion, outliers, transformations of data, and sampling techniques.

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Welcome to Incredible Insects! We’ll provide five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of butterflies, bees, and other bugs.

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Virtual Volunteering

Share these five virtual volunteering activities with students and parents.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Van a recibir lecciones de lectura y aprendizaje para cinco días con las que su hijo podrá conocer más sobre las mariposas, las abejas y otros insectos.

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Download this free Wallace v. Jaffree lesson plan to teach students about an important Supreme Court case regarding prayer in schools and the First Amendment.

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Students will read stories about people's experiences on the Oregon Trail and work on related activities that will help them build their skills in math, science, ELA, and other subject areas.

Glenn Greenberg
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