SPECIAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Expanding Outcomes in Special Education
NWEA MAP Growth Placement Available!
NWEA® is now part of HMH. Active MAP® Growth™ customers can use student assessment scores to automatically place students into Read 180, Math 180, and Waggle.
Research-Based Special Education Curriculum Programs
HMH recognizes that students learn at varying rates and too often feel discouraged if they struggle to succeed. Our research-based special education curriculum programs with customized learning paths enable teachers to guide their students to meet Individualized Education Program (IEP) benchmarks, regardless of their natural learning pace.
CUSTOMIZATION
Personalized Instruction Meets Individual Needs
Our programs can be customized to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. All students receive explicit, systematic instruction.
ACCESSIBILITY
High-Quality Resources Support Inclusive Environments
All educators, leaders, and students can access high-quality resources and adaptive learning technology supporting individual learning needs. Instruction builds reasoning to elicit thinking and holds all students to the highest standards.
DATA ANALYTICS
Built-In IEP Progress Monitoring and Reporting
Reporting suites and embedded assessments offer real-time data and support for differentiation. Individualized student data allow teachers and guardians to continually measure progress against IEP annual goals and benchmarks.
Special Education Guide for Educators
Read our interactive special education guide that discusses how HMH solutions can help teachers enrich the lives of their students with learning disabilities and boost confidence every day.
Explore Our Special Education Curriculum Programs
HMH’s research-based supplemental, math intervention, and reading intervention programs are highly effective. The built-in resources give special education teachers what they need to provide specially designed instruction.
All Products
Amira Learning®
Hero Academy®
inFact® Readers
Math 180®
Read 180®
Rigby JillE Literacy®
Rigby® PM Leveled Readers
Saxon® Phonics & Spelling
Waggle®
Amira Learning®
Our mission is to make every child a motivated and masterful reader. Amira Learning for Grades K–6 assesses oral reading fluency (ORF), provides effective 1:1 reading tutoring, and screens for dyslexia risk to double student reading growth—in English or en español.
Hero Academy®
In Hero Academy, students in Grades Pre-K–3 will fall in love with the seven relatable student superheroes who face and overcome challenges and reinforce social and emotional growth. Manageable instruction in each lesson emphasizes the development of these traits.
inFact® Readers
Motivating exceptional students to read nonfiction requires capturing their attention and sparking their sense of wonder. Expose students early to informational texts with inFact, a Grades K–5 series filled with awe-inspiring artwork and photography, paired with strategic text placement that helps draw students into various cross-curricular topics.
Math 180®
Math 180 is a research-based, intensive intervention for Grades 5 and above. Ideal for core and intervention classrooms, it targets students performing below grade level in Math. With a focus on Priority Standards and purposeful curriculum, Math 180 empowers students to rebuild foundational skills and excel in Algebra 1.
Customers can use NWEA MAP Growth—included with the Math 180 subscription—to place students into the student application and as beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year benchmarking.
Read 180®
Read 180 for Grades 3–12 helps striving readers gain the foundational and comprehension skills they need for fluent reading within a dedicated intervention class or a core classroom.
Customers can use NWEA Map Growth—included with the Read 180 subscription—to place students into the student application as as beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year benchmarking.
Rigby JillE Literacy®
JillE Literacy is a K–3 supplemental resource that cultivates emotion, imagination, critical thinking, curiosity, and creativity in students through captivating texts. It teaches essential literacy skills and includes teaching prompts and guiding questions for different reading levels. The resources encompass comprehension strategies, oral language, vocabulary, SEL, and reading fluency.
Rigby® PM Leveled Readers
Rigby PM for Grades K–5 provides students with meaningful, age-appropriate texts in various genres and easy-to-spot leveling indicators.
Saxon® Phonics & Spelling
Saxon Phonics and Spelling is designed to teach foundational phonics, reading, and spelling skills to K–2 students. The program follows a systematic approach, incorporating explicit instruction, practice, and assessment to develop strong foundational skills in language arts.
Waggle®
Waggle, a digital gamified learning solution (available in English or Spanish) for Grades K–8, goes beyond adaptive learning. It provides dynamic personalized practice and instruction for students at all proficiency levels with automatic placement based grade level.
For customers with active licenses to MAP® Growth™ by NWEA®, teachers have the additional option to automatically place students into Waggle at their appropriate grade equivalency level.
Readers
Hero Academy®
In Hero Academy, students in Grades Pre-K–3 will fall in love with the seven relatable student superheroes who face and overcome challenges and reinforce social and emotional growth. Manageable instruction in each lesson emphasizes the development of these traits.
inFact® Readers
Motivating exceptional students to read nonfiction requires capturing their attention and sparking their sense of wonder. Expose students early to informational texts with inFact, a Grades K–5 series filled with awe-inspiring artwork and photography, paired with strategic text placement that helps draw students into various cross-curricular topics.
Rigby® PM Leveled Readers
Rigby PM for Grades K–5 provides students with meaningful, age-appropriate texts in various genres and easy-to-spot leveling indicators.
Supplemental
Amira Learning®
Our mission is to make every child a motivated and masterful reader. Amira Learning for Grades K–6 assesses oral reading fluency (ORF), provides effective 1:1 reading tutoring, and screens for dyslexia risk to double student reading growth—in English or en español.
Saxon® Phonics & Spelling
Saxon Phonics and Spelling is designed to teach foundational phonics, reading, and spelling skills to K–2 students. The program follows a systematic approach, incorporating explicit instruction, practice, and assessment to develop strong foundational skills in language arts.
Rigby JillE Literacy®
JillE Literacy is a K–3 supplemental resource that cultivates emotion, imagination, critical thinking, curiosity, and creativity in students through captivating texts. It teaches essential literacy skills and includes teaching prompts and guiding questions for different reading levels. The resources encompass comprehension strategies, oral language, vocabulary, SEL, and reading fluency.
Waggle®
Waggle, a digital gamified learning solution (available in English or Spanish) for Grades K–8, goes beyond adaptive learning. It provides dynamic personalized practice and instruction for students at all proficiency levels with automatic placement based grade level.
For customers with active licenses to MAP® Growth™ by NWEA®, teachers have the additional option to automatically place students into Waggle at their appropriate grade equivalency level.
Intervention
Math 180®
Math 180 is a research-based, intensive intervention for Grades 5 and above. Ideal for core and intervention classrooms, it targets students performing below grade level in Math. With a focus on Priority Standards and purposeful curriculum, Math 180 empowers students to rebuild foundational skills and excel in Algebra 1.
Customers can use NWEA MAP Growth—included with the Math 180 subscription—to place students into the student application and as beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year benchmarking.
Read 180®
Read 180 for Grades 3–12 helps striving readers gain the foundational and comprehension skills they need for fluent reading within a dedicated intervention class or a core classroom.
Customers can use NWEA Map Growth—included with the Read 180 subscription—to place students into the student application as as beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year benchmarking.
Embracing Differences in Our Special Education Community
Get Inspired by “Breathing”
Listen to a poem by Patricia Starek, Senior Product Manager at HMH, and take a minute to recognize how educators’ actions in the classroom matter to students with learning disabilities.
When I got into Read 180, it was like I had a whole new way of learning. My Lexile® scores went higher and higher. Read 180 changed my life!
Professional Learning for Teacher and Leader Success
Professional learning with HMH provides educators with the tools they need to help students with disabilities achieve success.
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Guided Implementation
HMH programs include continuous implementation support with Teacher Success Pathways that are personalized for each teacher, ensuring success in the first 30 days of instruction.
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Teacher’s Corner®
Teacher’s Corner on Ed offers yearlong access to professional learning, with live events and on-demand content that support teachers in implementing programs, organizing classrooms, and learning best practices.
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Coaching Membership and Courses
Get personalized learning support from experienced instructional coaches, delivered live online or in person, to track teacher goals.
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Leader Support
Leaders receive targeted support to drive innovation and navigate challenges within their district.
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Family Room
Family Room is an ever-growing library of on-demand resources in English and Spanish that provides families and caregivers with the tools they need to support their child’s learning.
Awards & Accolades
Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) Endorsement
Math 180, Read 180
2023 SIIA CODiE Winner
Waggle, Amira
2023 SIIA CODiE Finalist
Teacher Success Pathways, Teacher's Corner
2023 EdTech Awards Cool Tool Finalist
Amira
2023 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence Winner
Math 180, Read 180
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Insights & Resources
Explore resources and tools to incorporate into a special education curriculum.
Writing Effective Social–Emotional IEP Goals
Differentiated Instruction for Special Education Students
Dr. Suzanne Jimenez, HMH's director of academic planning and data analytics, shares insights on differentiated instruction for special education students.
What Is RTI in Special Education?
Dr. Suzanne Jimenez, HMH's director of academic planning and data analytics, explains RTI in special education.
Photo: Education leaders Rachael Cunningham and Sarah Fox
Podcast: Dyslexia, Intervention, and the Read 180 User with Rachael Cunningham and Sarah Fox in CA on Teachers in America
Education leaders Rachael Cunningham and Sarah Fox dispel common misconceptions about dyslexia and share best practices and programs to support dyslexic learners.
Podcast: Teachers in America
A comprehensive list of all of the Teachers in America podcast episodes, seasons 1-3.
Read 180
Saxon Phonics & Spelling
Rigby JillE Literacy
Webinar
Special Education: Strategies for Inclusive Environments
Learn how to identify appropriate intervention practices and strategies for a diverse group of learners that will promote access and opportunity for improved student outcomes.
Webinar
Change the Learning Landscape for Your Special Education Students
Webinar
Leadership Strategies for Early Dyslexia Identification and Intervention
Presented by Dr. Suzanne Jimenez, Director, Academic Planning and Analytics, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Moderated by Tyler Schlagenhauf, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Webinar
Personalized Learning: The Why, How, and What
Webinar
How to Accelerate Literacy Growth in Striving Readers
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