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Shaped Staff

The Shaped Staff is a group of writers and editors with extensive and varied backgrounds in education—consisting of the Content Marketing team at HMH. Together, they bring expertise in education journalism, content development, copywriting—as well as teaching experience in the elementary grades and secondary English and math.

The Content Marketing team includes Christine Condon, senior director of content marketing; Richard Blankman, marketing director; Zoe Del Mar, senior content marketing manager; Brenda Iasevoli, senior content marketing manager; Alicia Ivory, senior copywriter; and Jennifer Corujo, content marketing manager.

They can be reached at Shaped@hmhco.com.

 
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Bookmark this page featuring our 2024 back-to-school articles for educators. It’s filled with the resources you need to start the school year off strong, from prepping for the first day, to classroom management strategies, and more.

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Comparison between learning styles vs multiple intelligences, describing the myth of learning styles and the theory of multiple intelligences

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A comprehensive list of all of the Teachers in America podcast episodes, seasons 1-5.

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As you return to the classroom for back-to-school, try these 2024 first-day-of-school icebreaker activities to develop a sense of normalcy among students and build community.

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To celebrate teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week we wanted to hear directly from students. Watch the video to hear what they have to say.

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Teach students about eight famous women in science by downloading these posters. These women have contributed to fields ranging from engineering to astronomy to chemistry.

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Check out this list of famous black scientists today and during the 20th century, and distribute the posters of African American scientists to your students or hang them in your classroom.

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Try these real-life math problems with solutions in your classroom, which are open-ended projects with a range of possible answers.

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Get back into science with these back-to-school activities for middle school science.

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Explore these back-to-school science activities and experiments for the first day of science class.

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These math icebreakers are games and activities that span all grades to help math teachers get students practicing math while getting to know one another.

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Get step-by-step instructions on how to elicit thoughtful questions and responses to tasks that ask students to estimate length.

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7 facts about games in education are given, describing how games and gamification can be used to improve learning in education

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Students will learn how to represent multiplication of fractions by drawing visual models, analyzing hypothetical examples of student work, and creating equations.

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Estimate the Volume of a Rectangular Prism in this activity from HMH's Into Math.

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Watch these 90-Second Science videos of quick and easy science experiments for kids that you can do at home or in the classroom.

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Dynamic formative assessment using technology helps guide teacher instruction and keep students on the right track.

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This lesson explores how to write a reflective narrative essay, a type of writing where writers reflect on an experience and show how their lives changed.

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