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What Is Student-Centered Coaching? Consider These Examples

What is student-centered coaching? To meet students’ individual needs, teachers may consider coaching that analyzes data and formulates student-centered goals.

Michelle Smith
Professional Services Consultant, HMH

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Checking a Box or Checking a Mindset? Tackling Complex Tasks in the Classroom

Certain tasks require teachers to focus on changing students’ mindsets – not just following a set of a guidelines.

Dr. Monica Robinson
K-12 Academic Support Programs Coordinator, Virginia Beach City Public Schools

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Failing Forward: Plan to Succeed This Year by Reflecting on the Past

Looking back at last year’s failures can help you when developing your plans for the new school year.

Albert Morton
Professional Learning Consultant, HMH

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Maintaining the 180 Spirit Cycle—Part 2: The Value of Professional Learning

Consider opportunities that enable you to build life-long connections, invest in yourself as a professional, and introduce you to best teaching practices.

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

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From Teacher to Implementation Coach: Finding Fulfillment Back in the Classroom

A retired teacher turned classroom coach offers insight into a district’s implementation of a reading intervention program.

Eric Fredlund
Regional Consultant, HMH

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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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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

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RTI to the Rescue: Developing a Personalized Learning Initiative in an Academy Environment

Dr. Julia Daniely
Principal, Westside High School

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When It Comes to RTI, Culture Trumps Strategy

Juan Villarreal
Principal, Gunn Junior High School

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Strategies for Supporting Striving Readers Every Day

Charmion Mohning
Secondary Reading Coordinator, Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District

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HMH Recognizes Three Students for Reading Skills Improvement

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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HMH Honors Three Exceptional Students for Their Academic Excellence in Math

Tameka Mullins
Content Marketing Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The Power of Coaching: Changing Teacher Outlooks and Student Outcomes

Shelley Branine
Instructional Coach, HMH

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HMH Honors 180 Student Award Winners Who Have Persevered and Excelled

Martha Pfeiffer
Content Marketing Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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How ESSA Is Boosting Early Childhood Education

Francie Alexander
Senior Vice President, Efficacy & Consulting Research

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Bueller? Bueller? How to Create an Engaged, Psychologically Safe Classroom

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

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How to Teach the NGSS Crosscutting Concept of Structure and Function

Bernadine Okoro
2010–2011 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, National Science Foundation Fellow

Marjorie Frank
Author, ELD Specialist

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