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Heinemann Blog

Thought leadership supporting the latest innovations in K-12 education.

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Wille Carver and Liz Prather explore how sharing personal narratives can pave the path to healing and advocacy.

Making History Relevant for Students

Teaching Beyond the Timeline is now available! Watch the authors discuss how teaching thematically allows students to connect current events to their lives.

Matific 2024 NTL Effective Blog

Here are three effective ways schools can implement Matific’s rigorous pedagogy designed by educational experts from leading universities.

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China Harvey and Lisa Herzig discuss their new book, Teaching Beyond the Timeline.

SXP 2024 NTL Science of Reading Blog

Saxon® Reading Foundations’ approach to teaching phonics and spelling concepts is grounded in foundational research from the science of reading and cognitive science.

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Connecting current events to history through thematic teaching increases student engagement. China Harvey and Lisa Herzig offer some tips.

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David Rockower and Liz Prather discuss how students explore what matters to them through writing.

Comp Toolkit 2024 NTL Cycle of Knowledge Building Blog

As kids learn about and comprehend the world, their comprehension is strengthened by existing and new knowledge. When kids build their knowledge store, it’s thinking and learning intensive.

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Center student voices through collaboration. Learn about a variety of tools that enable everyone to be included.

Your Guide to Teaching During an Election Year

With another historic election on the horizon, authors of The Civically Engaged Classroom offer a free guide for navigating teaching during this time.

UOSW Methods for Teaching Minilessons

Writing workshop minilessons are meant as intervals for explicit, brief instruction in skills and strategies that then become part of a writer’s ongoing repertoire.

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The world is loud. Grant Faulkner, coauthor with Kim Culbertson of 100-Word Stories, makes a case for turning the volume off.

1 Apr 08 2024 06 51 32 1403 PM

In this action-based post, Carl and Matt help you think about how to evaluate an instructional approach to writing. Downloadable PDF included.

You Tube Annonucement Blog24

Subscribe to Heinemann's YouTube Channel for videos from authors, book talks, and more.

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Stacey Joy and Liz Prather discuss the transformative power of using writing to reflect and rediscover joy in teaching.

UOSW Four Types of Writing Blog

To teach writing well, it is important to know about qualities of the four major genres of writing.

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Kim Culbertson shares her love for lists with this essay assignment.

Blog24 Heard Event 2

Join Georgia Heard, Naomi Shihab Nye, and guests in a live virtual interview hosted by Zoë Ryder White in celebration of Awakening the Heart 2e.