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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

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.

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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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

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.

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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!

Eduardo G., Read 180 Special Education Student

Spc. Rafael Hernando III Middle School, El Paso, TX

Personalized Professional Learning

HMH provides guided program implementation and ongoing professional learning for teachers and leaders that is tailored to the needs of their schools. We offer live and asynchronous learning opportunities to fit teachers’ schedules and provide support when they need it the most.

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Awards & Accolades

Case Awards 1x1

Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) Endorsement

Math 180, Read 180

Codie 2023 Winner Awards 1x1

2023 SIIA CODiE Winner

Waggle, Amira

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2023 SIIA CODiE Finalist

Teacher Success Pathways, Teacher's Corner

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2023 EdTech Awards Cool Tool Finalist

Amira

2023 Techand Learning B2 S Secondary Ed Winner Awards 1x1

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.

Amira Learning: Savannah-Chatham County Public School

  • Report Type: Efficacy Study, Study Conducted by Third Party
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Region: Southeast
  • Population: Students with Disabilities, Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
  • Race/Ethnicity: Asian, Black, Hispanic, White, Multiracial
  • District Urbanicity: Urban
  • District Size: Large
  • Promising Evidence
  • Assessment
  • Early Learning
  • Literacy Curriculum

Read 180: Charles Armstrong School Longitudinal Research Study 2019–2022

  • Report Type: Efficacy Study
  • Grade Level: Elementary, Middle
  • Region: West
  • Population: Students with Disabilities, Students with Specific Learning Disabilities, Students with Dyslexia
  • District Urbanicity: Suburban
  • District Size: Small
  • Implementation Model: 40-59 Minutes
  • Promising Evidence
  • Literacy Curriculum
  • Intervention Curriculum

MATH 180: Making Effective Use of a Flexible Blended Learning Model: An Answer to Maximizing Educational Outcomes for All Students

  • Report Type: Professional Paper
  • Grade Level: Elementary, Middle, High
  • Population: Students with Specific Learning Disabilities
  • Demonstrates a Rationale
  • Math
  • Intervention Curriculum

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