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It has become clear to me that we need to enlist teachers as language mentors who approach lesson design and delivery with efforts to expose, enrich, and equip students linguistically.

A festive event like Thanksgiving offers many opportunities to engage young children in playful learning activities, from designing creative table settings to measuring the ingredients for your favorite desserts.

STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math---all essential skill areas for our children in their future. Introducing STEAM skills and activities early encourages young minds and taps into their natural curiosity.

I have written two-dozen non-fiction history books for kids over as many years. My latest books recount an environmental disaster and a killer hurricane, neither of which is an easy topic for readers regardless of age. The question I often face is how to present difficult material to kids?

With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the perfect time for parents, educators and caregivers to encourage imagination with some spooky, costumed fun that stretches beyond Trick-or-Treating!

It’s a wrap on HMH’s fourth annual company-wide Volunteer Week! Here’s a snapshot of HMH Volunteer Week by the numbers.

The third installment of HMH’s Conversations on Early Learning series, hosted in partnership with Boston Children’s Museum on September 25, explored the vital connections between play and learning.

This week, we’ve got playful learning on our minds as we approach HMH’s next Conversations on Early Learning event at Boston Children’s Museum. We hope you enjoy these tips for encouraging developmentally appropriate play with your early learner!

When it comes to implementing technology and creating digital learning environments, the impact that new technology has on school culture and student learning is often given too little attention. What changes can teachers expect and prepare for in the classroom? What new challenges does technology create?

For SXSWedu 2016, we’ve put together three new session ideas exploring topics such as research to practice in the early learning space, the ways in which coding and open developer resources can enable creative problem solving, and the importance of mindset in achieving student success.

While topics like 1:1 and digital literacy remain as important as ever, we’re also hearing some new buzzwords in the edtech lexicon with growing frequency. APIs. Metadata. Interoperability. So, what exactly is interoperability, and why is it the next frontier in digital learning?

Visual artists approach their work with the same purposes as writers: to persuade, to explain, and to convey experience real or imagined. The difference is in their tools. While writers employ diction, syntax, and imagery to establish a tone and convey their message; visual artists use color, line, shape, object, and scale.

This spring, HMH surveyed 1,000+ classroom teachers, and school and district administrators nationwide as part of our inaugural Educator Confidence Report. The survey, which will be conducted annually, was designed to measure educator sentiment by taking a snapshot of the opportunities, challenges and changes on teachers’ minds today.

On Sunday, June 7, early learning experts and stakeholders from diverse organizations and disciplines gathered in New Orleans for the second symposium in HMH’s Conversations on Early Learning series.

In March, HMH thought leaders headed to Austin, Texas for SXSWedu .The annual four-day conference brings education stakeholders together to connect, collaborate, create and change how we teach and learn.

In honor of last week’s Teacher Appreciation Week, we took some time here at HMH to reflect on educators who truly made a difference in our lives.

At its inception, the internet was created primarily to allow scholars and scientists to exchange data, theories and resources, and to provide a forum for intellectual curiosity. Today, this access to limitless information is available to anyone with an internet connection.

The early learning field has reached a galvanizing moment. A confluence of research, practice, policy, content development, informal learning and advocacy work has cultivated fertile ground for the community’s shared commitment and growth by providing the tools we need to ensure that all young learners have access to essential education experiences.