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Just in time for TESOL, Sylvia Acevedo, interim CEO of Girls Scouts of the USA, shares some inspiration for EL educators she has learned over the years from the Girl Scouts.

This year at the National Catholic Educational Association Convention, HMH marks its 80th year as a proud NCEA partner. Preview this year's topical conference sessions and engaging booth activities.

Dr. Elena Izquierdo discusses the importance of maintaining English learners' progress in language proficiency and presents strategies for keeping them motivated and engaged with academic language in summer school.

The next time your students question when they're going to use math in "real life," why not take the opportunity to discuss how they might? Here are some ideas to get the conversation started.

From young Head Start student to rocket scientist, Fortune 100 executive, Presidential appointee, and strong supporter of today's English learners, Sylvia Acevedo's journey is an inspiration.

In honor of Read Across America Day, let’s celebrate great American literature by inspiring reading.

Summer school programs afford districts the critical opportunity to raise academic outcomes for low-achieving students. So how can you ensure that the appropriate funding is earmarked for your summer learning resources? HMH Director of RFP Content & Funding Nancy Slaughter explains.

Did you know that HMH predecessor Harcourt, Brace & Company was the only American publisher interested in purchasing George Orwell's Animal Farm? In light of the recent surge in readership of dystopian novels, HMH Archivist Susan Steinway takes a closer look at Orwell's publishing history with HMH.

Superintendent of Fall Creek School District Dr. Joe Sanfelippo discusses the importance of trust between school districts and their communities and highlights three ways his district is building upon and strengthening trust in their community.

Former principal and current Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education Eric Sheninger explains why a strong school identity is so important and provides five ways leaders can strengthen their school and district brand.

Dr. Chris Weber, leader of the Instruction & Intervention Systems practice area of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s International Center for Leadership in Education discusses next-generation teaching strategies for student mastery of behavioral skills.

Dr. Dockterman, Chief Architect of Learning Sciences at HMH, shares three ways that educators can transform student failure from a learning collapse into a productive event.

In observance of Black History Month, HMH archivist Susan Steinway pulled together a list of notable and influential writers, poets and artists published by HMH’s predecessor companies, Harcourt, Brace & Company and Houghton Mifflin, during the Harlem Renaissance.

Superintendent Lamont Repollet explains how he united his district under the motto “Building a Brighter Future” resulting in dramatic improvements to the Hard Hat Nation.

HMH science curriculum author Michael DiSpezio discusses Google’s virtual reality experience and how it can be incorporated into the classroom.

To celebrate National Handwriting Day, HMH Archivist Susan Steinway takes a look through some of the handwritten documents found in the HMH archives.

Wondering what makes a successful school tick? Principal Al Carganilla explains how strong student-teacher and teacher-teacher relationships are key to classroom excellence.

In this edition of The Spark News Roundup, we highlight a California early learning campaign to shrink language disparities by installing conversation prompts into playgrounds, an innovative scaffolding technique for teaching English-language learners, how America’s academic approaches differ from the rest of the world, and more.