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Interactive Read-Aloud Strategies: Build Strong Relationships With Students

What is an interactive read-aloud? Learn interactive read-aloud strategies to build strong student-teacher relationships in the classroom.

Monica Fitzgerald
Reading AIS Teacher, Gillette Road Middle School

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Images, Sounds, and Video: Teach Students How to Read Online

For media literacy, educators must teach students to understand how digital elements impact us when reading online.

Erik Palmer
Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

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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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Banned Books Week: Stories That Stirred Controversy in Schools

As part of a celebration supporting freedom of expression, here's a list of HMH books that have been challenged or banned in some schools.

Susan Steinway
Archivist, HMH

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Teaching Internet Media Literacy in a Digital World

Explain to students that not every website on the internet is legitimate, and they shouldn't get distracted by hyperlinks and ads.

Erik Palmer
Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

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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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Into the Classroom: How to Get Your Students to Read—and Enjoy It

To get teens to want to read books, follow these four tips.

​Nicole Hochholzer
Literacy Coach and Interventionist, Kaukauna High School

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4 Steps to Connect With Students' Parents This School Year

The students' parents play a huge role in their education—and that's just one reason why parent-teacher communication is crucial.

Lisa Sims
Former HMH Consultant

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Papers, Papers, Papers: Teaching Writing Isn't Just Copy Editing

Correcting student papers and offering constructive feedback to novice writers are distinctly different things.

Carol Jago
HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

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Head Back to School With These 10 HMH Classic Books

Share these 10 first-day-of-school books with your students to celebrate all the new encounters this year will bring.

Susan Steinway
Archivist, HMH

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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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Facebook Live Recaps: Diversifying Reading Materials and Practices

It’s powerful and necessary for children to see themselves represented in literature.

Julia Roch

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Supercharge Your Conferring: Focus on Goals, Strategies, and Feedback

In the new school year, prioritizing purposeful and consistent conferring will bring power to the literacy classroom.

Jennifer Serravallo
Author

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Giving Students the Keys to Control Their Own Learning Outcomes

What happens when students own their learning? Learn about the benefits of allowing students to control their own learning outcomes.

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

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Facebook Live Recaps: Turning Students Into Strong Writers and Speakers

Experts share how to best engage students in the intricacies of writing and speaking.

Julia Roch

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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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Facebook Live With Writable: Turning Students Into Active Peer Reviewers

A teacher educator explains how a guided practice platform allows students to become more active peer reviewers.

Julia Roch

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