Students’ Emotions Matter (As Do Yours)! Let’s Work Together Teaching Guide: SEL

Building students’ social-emotional capacity through reading and discussing books enhances their ability to experience successful relationships in school and more importantly now the interactions they have at home and in their neighborhoods. By inviting students to read and then have meaningful conversations about books, you offer models for building trusting relationships with peers and adults

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Penguin Random House Sets Interim Discounted Digital-Book Library Program For Online Patrons, Educators, And Students

To further encourage book reading, especially among students, and to support school and public libraries that are closed with the escalating CV-19 outbreak, Penguin Random House will discount the prices of the e-book and audio book titles sold through wholesalers to these institutions. This discounting begins immediately and will be in effect for a 90-day

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The Power of Authentic Texts: Effective Pathways to Developing a Reading Culture and Student Success

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

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Penguin Random House ALA Midwinter Award Winners & Honorees for Elementary Education

Last week, the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter announced their 2020 literary award winners and honorees at its annual meeting. Below you can find which Penguin Random House titles appropriate for Elementary School students were among the winners. To see which Middle School and High School titles were honored, click here. Giesel Award Stop! Bot!

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For the Love of Teaching and the Art of Learning. An interview with Laura Robb.

“Nothing can replace you, the teacher, in the classroom. Unlike computers and robots, when you possess deep knowledge about how children learn, you can process students’ actions, words, and written work and provide feedback that moves each child forward. Moreover, you have a heart and emotional center that enables you to build students’ self-efficacy, self-confidence, motivation, and engagement in learning because students feel your respect and trust, your hopes and goals, as they experience your investment in their progress”. – Laura Robb

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Penguin Random House Adds 300,000 to the One Million Books Donated to First Book in Obama Family Name

Penguin Random House joins with Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to announce that the company will donate an additional 300,000 children’s books to First Book as part of the Hope Love Give campaign, building upon its previously announced donation of one million of its children’s books in the Obama family’s name. Plans for the

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The Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees for 2020-2021 have been announced!

Twenty titles have been selected for the 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List during the Texas Book Festival recently. The nominees, 4 of which are published or distributed by PRH, were unveiled by 19 students from the Central Texas Area. Each year, 20 books are chosen for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Schools and

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The first Penguin Random House Elementary Education catalog is here!

Penguin Random House Education is pleased to announce the publication of our Elementary Education Catalog       The PRH Elementary Education Catalog features outstanding fiction, non-fiction, and picture books from the Penguin Young Reader’s and Random House Children’s publishing divisions, as well as children’s publishers distributed by Penguin Random House. Peruse online or download

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How to Order Our Books for Your Classroom – Includes A List of Education Distributors

Looking to place an order for your classroom? We’re here to help! In addition to working with your local bookseller, below you will find a list of preferred educational distributors as well as instructions on how to easily create a cost proposal request.   How do I order books for my classroom?   Step 1:

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Introducing Penguin Random House Elementary Education!

Penguin Random House (PRH) is the international home to nearly 250 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Together, our mission is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire, and to connect them with readers everywhere. To read more about

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Meet the Inaugural PRH Elementary Education Teacher Advisory Board

On Monday, August 19th, 2019, the inaugural Penguin Random House Elementary Education Teacher Advisory Board was convened in our NYC headquarters. The educators, representing a wide diversity of schools, experiences and perspectives, exchanged with PRH education colleagues, discussing ideas and providing feedback on new and developing PRH initiatives in the elementary education space, including this new website.

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