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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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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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This Spring, Celebrate Student Growth

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

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HMH Honors Six Outstanding Educators

Caitlin Henault
Senior Communications Associate, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Impacting Tomorrow's Classrooms: Elena Izquierdo—Thought Leader, Educator, and Tireless Advocate

Rebecca Beck
Director of Product Marketing, Language Acquisition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Meet the Winners of HMH's Word UP Challenge

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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Congratulations to Our Two Texas Art & Literacy Contest Winners

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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Getting at the Heart of Conferring: Empowering Readers and Writers

Kristen Painter
Vice President of Professional Services, ICLE

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Efficient Eye Tracking: A Learned Fine Motor Skill Essential to Reading

Dr. Alexandra Talaber
OD, FCOVD, FAAO

Dr. Danielle Leong
OD, PhD

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What the Academy Awards Taught Me About Speaking Instruction: Part 1

Erik Palmer
Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

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Three Pillars of Support for Middle School English Learners

Keeping English learners engaged in academic content while they experience profound personal challenges makes our role as educators even more complex and crucial.

Dr. Elena Izquierdo
Author, Escalate English; Author ¡Arriba la Lectura!; Associate Professor, Dual Language Education / Biliteracy / ELL Education, University of Texas, El Paso

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The Bad Habits of Good Readers

Carol Jago, HMH author and program consultant, makes the case for the seemingly bad habits avid readers possess.

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

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Reading Is More Than Fundamental

HMH’s Kristi James shares what ideal literacy engagement in an early childhood classroom would look like and how teachers can realize this goal and promote it outside of their classrooms as well.

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Can We Nudge Students To Be Better Learners?

Education thought leader, researcher, and practitioner Dr. David Dockterman gets us thinking about ways to motivate student performance using the types of cues we encounter in daily life. Read his thoughts on four educational nudges.

Dr. David Dockterman
Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Getting Formative Assessment to Work

Thought leader Sheila Valencia continues our popular Lead the Way to Literacy series with some insight on formative assessment. Can it help close the achievement gap? Find out here.

Dr. Sheila W. Valencia
Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Washington; Journeys Program Consultant

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What Is Translanguaging in the Classroom?

What is Translanguaging? Learn the definition of translanguaging and strategies for translanguaging in the bilingual classroom.

Drs. Yvonne and David Freeman
Authors, On Our Way to English, Professors Emeriti, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

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