Through two literacy-based grant programs, Penguin Random House, in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is thrilled to recognize the nation’s most dynamic and resourceful teachers who use their creativity to inspire and successfully instill a lifelong love of reading and poetry in students.   The National Teacher Award for Lifelong

  “Readawoke Community of Readers Challenge” Named a 2019 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and Georgia Library Media Specialist of the Year, Cicely Lewis is a school librarian with a passion for creating lovers of reading. In 2017, she started the Read Woke challenge in response to the shootings of young unarmed black boys, the

  “Speak Yo’ Peace” Rick’s passion and commitment to educational equity have taken root over the course of his 14-year career as a middle school ELA teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. He has developed his activist stance through doctoral work at the University of Illinois of Chicago, where he studies culturally sustaining pedagogy, disciplinary

On Monday, November 11, we were delighted to host the Inaugural Penguin Random House Middle School Teacher Advisory Board at our NYC headquarters. Our diverse group of talented, innovative educators included five women and three men, hailing from different regions of the U.S. During the meeting, board members and Penguin Random House Education staff engaged

This past Monday, October 14, Penguin Random House Education and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) cohosted a special National Day of Writing Event featuring Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi, authors of TELL ME WHO YOU ARE: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity, published by TarcherPerigee. Several dozen teachers, as well as Annysa Polanco,