We are pleased to share a new resource for Pulitzer Prize–winning sociologist Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America, out in paperback on March 26, 2024. Click here to access and download an extensive PowerPoint presentation, created to aid and enhance the teaching of the book and easily adaptable to meet educators’ classroom needs. In this landmark

Are you interested in bringing your entire school community together for a shared literacy event? If your answer is “YES!,” an all-school reading program— appropriate for K-12 levels—is an exciting and engaging experience to consider. During an all-school reading event, all staff and students receive a copy of the same book and read it simultaneously

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

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 K-8). We asked two veteran educators to share some strategies and best practices they’ve learned through their own classroom

This Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a moment to reckon with our past and reimagine our future. To help educators engage with the complex impacts of 9/11 in the classroom, Valarie Kaur—Sikh activist and author of See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love—has created a guide for teaching and learning

From the introduction:  The Difficult Miracle                                  This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America:  that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.                                                                                                 –June Jordan For over 250 years, African Americans have written and recited and published poetry about beauty and injustice, music and muses, Africa and America, freedoms

By Joel Brigham   I have taught American Literature for 16 years, and for most of my career, that has meant doing what has always been done. I’ve taught Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, just like any other self-respecting American Lit teacher in this country, but it

Written by Kimberly N. Parker, PhD. assistant director of the Shady Hill Teacher Training Center (MA), and Tricia Ebarvia, teacher and department chair at Conestoga High School (PA), and co-chair at the Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy. Kim and Tricia are cofounders of #DisruptTexts (disrupttexts.org/)   Ongoing events have led many of us to

Dear Readers, Are you stuck at home, right now? Me, too. I can hear the laundry spinning in the dryer and smell overripe bananas piled on the kitchen counter. I’m spending a lot of time looking out the window, too, because I’d really like to go outside and talk to people. But I’m not supposed

Penguin Random House publishes a variety of educator guides designed to help support the teaching of our trade books in the classroom.  All of our guides are written by educators for educators, downloadable as PDFs and come in five different guide types, which are detailed below.   Please click here or on the button in

Now more than ever, students need literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. From Erika L. Sanchez’s poignant YA novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter to Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s highly informative An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, Penguin Random House has extensive offerings for

The spring of each school year can be an anxious time. Your district’s test scores arrive, and reading scores may not have improved enough to meet your goals. The education team at Penguin Random House understands your concerns for staff and students. To support you, we’ve asked three experienced educators to write a white paper