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Just in time for TESOL, Sylvia Acevedo, interim CEO of Girls Scouts of the USA, shares some inspiration for EL educators she has learned over the years from the Girl Scouts.

In honor of Read Across America Day, let’s celebrate great American literature by inspiring reading.

Did you know that HMH predecessor Harcourt, Brace & Company was the only American publisher interested in purchasing George Orwell's Animal Farm? In light of the recent surge in readership of dystopian novels, HMH Archivist Susan Steinway takes a closer look at Orwell's publishing history with HMH.

In observance of Black History Month, HMH archivist Susan Steinway pulled together a list of notable and influential writers, poets and artists published by HMH’s predecessor companies, Harcourt, Brace & Company and Houghton Mifflin, during the Harlem Renaissance.

To celebrate National Handwriting Day, HMH Archivist Susan Steinway takes a look through some of the handwritten documents found in the HMH archives.

In this edition of The Spark News Roundup, we highlight a California early learning campaign to shrink language disparities by installing conversation prompts into playgrounds, an innovative scaffolding technique for teaching English-language learners, how America’s academic approaches differ from the rest of the world, and more.

English Language Development teacher Amelia Herrera shares lessons she has learned from teaching refugee students.

We asked each of our literacy experts to share what they think will move the needle in increasing reading proficiency. Here are some of the tips that stuck with us most.

HMH's Director of Literacy Education Research Julia Febiger shares key takeaways from a study from The Institution of Education Sciences about effective reading programs and practices for adolescents.

HMH program advisor Dr. David Dockterman explains the role of emotions in reading comprehension.

In this edition of The Spark News Roundup, we take a closer look at how some schools are introducing new and innovative practices into their classrooms, from scheduling four recesses a day, to embracing a more interactive approach to preschool math instruction through the use of talking puppets.

HMH is sending out a final call for submissions to the Spark a Story national short story writing contest, which closes October 7.

As kids head back to school, HMH Chief Academic Officer Francie Alexander shares some elementary and middle school-level books to help ease the transition from summer to fall.

HMH Program Author Dr. Bill McBride shares four ways to help students analyze complex prompts and become better writers.

To celebrate HMH’s Spark a Story contest, we turned to some of our authors and novelists to get their tips for how to overcome writer’s block.

What works when teaching reading? Here are five strategies that are proven to work.

HMH gives educators and aspiring writers a sneak peek into the publishing world, with advice about how to get manuscripts noticed, thoughts on the current trends in the industry and more.

With the National Conventions under way, HMH Archivist Susan Steinway thought this was the perfect time to take a look back at HMH’s presidential history and the five presidents who published books with us.