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Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand is one of the few performers who has achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. She received the Academy Award for Best Actress for Fargo in 1997, the Tony Award for Best Actress for Good People in 2011, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for Olive Kitteridge in 2015. She has won or been nominated for dozens of other awards across a long and successful career on stage and screen. She is married to writer/director Joel Coen, and has starred in several of the Coen brothers' films.

Books for Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Every May we celebrate the rich history and culture of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Browse a curated selection of fiction and nonfiction books by AANHPI creators that we think your students will love. Find our collection of titles here: Elementary School

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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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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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