New Thematic Educator Guides: Teaching Women’s History

In recent years, educators have emphasized the importance of teaching women’s history as a way to address historical silences and confront contemporary challenges to gender equity. Despite being told that “girls can be anything,” students still encounter women appearing as exceptions rather than central figures shaping history and society. In the urgency of this moment,

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Worksheet for Students: Playful: How Play Shifts Our Thinking, Inspires Connection, and Sparks Creativity by Cas Holman and Lydia Denworth

We’re all born playful. But when we grow up, we learn to suppress this critical, hardwired instinct and our lives become ruled by “getting things done.” As world-famous designer Cas Holman explains, this disconnection from our playful selves is hazardous to everything from our emotional wellbeing to our ability to problem solve and innovate. The

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The New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2025

The New York Public Library has announced its Best Books of 2025. Curated by NYPL librarians and staff, these are their top annual recommendations for kids, teens, and adults, including nonfiction, fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and books in Spanish. All of the books are available in the Library’s catalog. Below is a selection of Penguin

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Teacher’s Guide Now Available for The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

We are pleased to share a new teacher’s guide for the The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through

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2025 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference

Join Penguin Random House Education at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference in Washington, DC (December 5th – December 7th). Visit us in Booth #308 to browse books by grade level and subject area, pick up free teacher resources, and learn more about our classroom collections. Don’t miss our Keynote Speakers! All

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2025 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention

2025 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention Join Penguin Random House Education at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention in Denver, CO (November 19th – November 23rd). Visit us in Booth #1005 to browse books by grade level and subject area, pick up free teacher resources and more. Don’t miss

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Check Out These Artificial Intelligence Titles

As artificial intelligence becomes more present in classrooms and schools, the books in this collection invite educators to contemplate the future in an AI-driven world and are perfect for faculty reading groups. Browse the collection here. Further explore the role of AI in education by reading this article “I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What

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