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The Shaped Staff is a group of writers and editors with extensive and varied backgrounds in education—consisting of the Content Marketing team at HMH. Together, they bring expertise in education journalism, content development, copywriting—as well as teaching experience in the elementary grades and secondary English and math.

The Content Marketing team includes Christine Condon, senior director of content marketing; Richard Blankman, marketing director; Zoe Del Mar, senior content marketing manager; Brenda Iasevoli, senior content marketing manager; Alicia Ivory, senior copywriter; and Jennifer Corujo, content marketing manager.

They can be reached at Shaped@hmhco.com.

 
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Have middle schoolers create a Story Spine, find inspiration in everyday objects, and write an advice column.

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High schoolers can sharpen their writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources.

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Teach students about metaphors and have them write fiction stories with these free downloadable activities for middle schoolers.

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For this week's activities, students can create how-to videos, analyze media messages, and respond to summer writing prompts.

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Find free teaching resources. Explore fun classroom activities, lessons plans, downloadables, and videos for Grade K–12 kids to keep learning and growing at grade level.

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Teach students the skills needed for success in and out of the classroom with these social and emotional activities and SEL lesson plans.

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Help your youngest students' build their literacy skills with these free reading activities for kindergarten, complete with videos, teacher guides, and more.

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Teaching absolute value can help students understand the distance of a number on the number line from zero, regardless of the direction from zero that the number lies.

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These reading activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade will help your students with reading practice so they can gain the right literacy skills.

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Have middle schoolers improve their writing, critical thinking, and reading skills with these activities, which include creating a word cloud and summarizing informational texts.

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7 facts about games in education are given, describing how games and gamification can be used to improve learning in education

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Bookmark this page featuring our 2025 back-to-school articles for educators. It’s filled with the resources you need to start the school year off strong, from prepping for the first day, to classroom management strategies, and more.

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Add a bit of dimension to your classroom routine with our free lesson plan activities for high school students in English language arts, math, science, and social studies.

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Whether you're teaching remotely or in the classroom, these fun science activities for middle school and high school students can help make learning fun.

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Give students a better understanding of our global society with these high school world history and American history lesson plan ideas and activities.

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From the Renaissance to the Reformation, these world history lessons for high school students can help your students better understand how the past has shaped the present.

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These high school American history lesson plans will help your students understand the importance of learning from the past in order to build a better future.

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Use these educational activities for elementary school to explore different topics in reading, math, and science and add an element of fun into your lessons.

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