Resource Pack for New Teachers: Tips, Ideas, and Booklists to Help You Get Started in the Classroom

Calling all new teachers: welcome to your first official school year! To kick things off, we created the Resource Pack for New Teachers: Tips, Ideas, and Booklists to Help You Get Started in the Classroom (Grades 9-12). We asked a veteran educator to share some strategies and best practices she’s learned through her own classroom

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2023 Middle and High School Collections

The Penguin Random House Education Middle School and High School Digital Collections feature outstanding fiction and nonfiction from across Penguin Random House’s publishing divisions and distribution clients. Peruse online or download these valuable resources to discover great books in specific topic areas such as: English Language Arts, Social Studies, STEM, Authentic Spanish, and Professional Learning.

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Penguin Random House Kids eBook Sale

Expand your library’s eBook offerings with specially curated collections! Browse the book lists which are all available at special pricing through the end of the year and can be purchased through your institution’s preferred digital wholesaler. From First in Series, to Classroom Classics, to Graphic Novels and Books for Reluctant Readers, we’ve got something for

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DK’s Banned Books Profiles the Most Controversial Texts Throughout History

While censorship of one form or another has always plagued society as the definitions of what is “acceptable” in published works have shifted over time and all over the world, book bans and challenges in the US have doubled between 2020 and 2021, according to the American Library Association. This surge in challenged books is

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2022 Secondary Education Collections

The Penguin Random House Education Middle School and High School Digital Collections feature outstanding fiction and non-fiction from across Penguin Random House’s publishing divisions and distribution clients. Peruse online or download these valuable resources to discover great books in specific topic areas such as: English Language Arts, Social Studies, STEM, and Professional Learning. These new

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DK Launches Brand-New Educator Website

The new DK Learning website is here! Building on DK’s 48 years of experience in producing award-winning books that have delighted and fascinated children worldwide for generations, DK Learning offers educational materials covering all key subject areas, mapped to U.S., British, International Baccalaureate, and Montessori curricula, from preschool through secondary school. The website—www.learning.dk.com—was developed alongside

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PRH Education Translanguaging Collections

Translanguaging is a communicative practice of bilinguals and multilinguals, that is, it is a practice whereby bilinguals and multilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning (García, 2009; García, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017)   It is through that lens that we have partnered with teacher educators and bilingual education experts, Drs.

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A Special Message to Educators & Librarians from Michelle Obama

  Former First Lady Michelle Obama has a special and inspiring message for librarians and educators everywhere, thanking them for the invaluable work they do in guiding our nation’s young people to become critical thinkers, engaged citizens, and empathetic leaders. Mrs. Obama’s memoir, Becoming, is now available as a young readers’ edition and in paperback.

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PRH Education Classroom Libraries

“Books are a students’ passport to entering and actively participating in a global society with the empathy, compassion, and knowledge it takes to become the problem solvers the world needs.” –Laura Robb   Research shows that reading and literacy directly impacts students’ academic success and personal growth. To help promote the importance of daily independent

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From Memoir to Movie: Michelle Obama’s Becoming Arrives May 6 on Netflix

Arriving May 6 on Netflix, Becoming is a documentary feature film following Michelle Obama during the worldwide book tour for her bestselling memoir of the same name. Produced in association with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Big Mouth Productions, the documentary is directed by Nadia Hallgren and provides an up-close look at

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