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

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Heinemann Fellow, Julie Kwon Jee, works to bring diverse voices into our classrooms through literature and in the process is reminded why it is necessary.

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Carla and Luz provide helpful tips for choosing multilingual texts while teaching remotely, and explain how you can teach these texts.

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Fountas & Pinnell will be providing temporary teacher access to additional Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ and Leveled Literacy Intervention resources.

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During this time of remote teaching and learning, teachers can help parents and caregivers notice, support, and extend children’s math thinking with games and outdoor play.

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How does growing our classroom environment to be more collaborative reduce the stress of classroom management and improve student achievement?

Building Your Virtual Bookroom

Clare Landrigan shares her template for a virtual classroom library, and shows you how to start digitally curating books for your students.

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Heart maps help students explore and process feelings. Included are heart mapping at home activities and videos from Georgia Heard.

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Carol Jago, author of The Book In Question, shares a lesson that invites students to reflect upon the changes they are experiencing during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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An update on the availability of Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ digital resources.

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Phenomenal Teaching charts a pathway for teachers to cultivate agency and foster understanding for every learner.

0406 Rief newsletter

From Linda Rief, author of The Quickwrite Handbook.

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Sara Ahmed calls on her friends, who observe and celebrate Ramadan, to share their understanding of this important holiday.

Open Letter

A letter to educators from Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas on remote learning and using Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ digital resources.

The Right Tools Read Aloud with Towanda Harris

Today on the podcast, a special read aloud episode from Towanda Harris, author of The Right Tools.

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Heinemann Fellow Irene Castillón explores the following question: In what ways can a high school community support their first-generation, Latinx college students as they navigate their first and second years at a four-year college setting?

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The Spring 2020 Workshop season has gone virtual! To continue providing professional development safely, the decision was made to convert Heinemann’s Spring 2020 One-Day Workshops to be virtual workshops.

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Heinemann is pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing line of audiobooks, The Curious Classroom: 10 Structures for Teaching with Student-Directed Inquiry by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels.

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With all that poetry does for us we wanted to quietly celebrate Poetry Month by re-sharing this collection of books that provide support for teaching and learning through poetry.

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