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Serving Students With Special Needs in an Online Era: Q&A With Suzanne Jimenez

A former director of special education weighs in on the challenges of remote learning and strategies for overcoming them.

Brenda Iasevoli
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3 Assessment Challenges in a Remote Learning Environment

The pandemic poses challenges when it comes to how we acquire data through assessment and shines a spotlight on the inequalities that exist in our educational system.

Dr. Vytas Laitusis
Education Research Director, Supplemental & Intervention Math

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Teaching World Languages: The Co-Constructed Feedback Process (Pt. 2)

A Spanish teacher explores the benefits of implementing co-constructed feedback to promote positive classroom relationships.

Jori Greenhill
Spanish Teacher

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Teaching World Languages: The Co-Constructed Feedback Process (Pt. 1)

A veteran Spanish teacher shares how to build on a typical interpersonal speaking performance assessment in order to make it easy for others to implement co-constructed feedback in their own classrooms.

Jori Greenhill
Spanish Teacher

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3 Reasons to Go Digital for Formative Assessment

Learn why online learning environments are particularly suited to dynamic formative assessment.

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How to Promote Productive Struggle in Your Classroom

Through quizzing and self-testing, along with mixed practice questions or problems, you can encourage greater conceptual understanding of a subject.

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How to Use Big Data as a School or District Leader: Taking Action

Let’s take a closer look at how to successfully implement each of the three types of data as an education leader.

Dustin Bindreiff, Ed.D.
Special Education Coordinator, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools; Former Consultant for Mindset Works

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Address 3 Challenges to Teaching STEM as an International Educator

Examining these challenges is essential to establish a pragmatic foundation upon which a STEM program can be constructed.

Michael DiSpezio
Author, ScienceFusion and HMH Science Dimensions Programs

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How to Use Big Data as a School or District Leader: Common Hurdles

The strategic use of data can help schools define their vision, develop a plan to achieve it, and measure if they are executing the plan.

Dustin Bindreiff, Ed.D.
Special Education Coordinator, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools; Former Consultant for Mindset Works

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Dyslexia: Myths, Realities, and Diagnostic Best Practices

Presenting as a multitude of symptoms that range from poor spelling to comprehension difficulties, dyslexia can be easily overlooked.

Shaped Staff

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What Are Evidence Notebooks in the Science Classroom?

Students use evidence notebooks to record observations and predictions, make sketches, and note questions that they have.

Michael DiSpezio
Author, ScienceFusion and HMH Science Dimensions Programs

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Getting Into Math: How Assessments Contribute to Effective Instruction

A balanced assessment system is the tool by which teachers can continuously monitor student learning.

Dr. Matthew R. Larson
Past President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM); Senior Fellow, Math Solutions

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What Are the Learning Sciences? And Why Do They Matter?

The learning sciences focus on differentiated instruction that uses data to determine what students know and where their knowledge gaps lie.

Jessica McKeown, PhD
HMH Senior Learning Scientist, Math and Science

Kathleen Richards
Former HMH Senior Learning Scientist, ELA and Humanities

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Supercharge Your Conferring: Focus on Goals, Strategies, and Feedback

In the new school year, prioritizing purposeful and consistent conferring will bring power to the literacy classroom.

Jennifer Serravallo
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Recap: Facebook Live With Jim O'Neill

HMH's Jim O’Neill discusses the new Into Learning programs and how they were developed in collaboration with teachers.

Julia Roch

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K-12 Recent News Roundup: July 20, 2018

Stay up to date on the education issues that matter to you.

Julia Roch

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The Data Promise: Turning Data into Actionable Insight, Part 3

Stevin Smith
Senior Vice President of Technical Services, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt