@joellenmccarthy.bsky.social My #LibraryHaul after attending @theedcollab.bsky.social Fall Gathering yesterday! 💜 #BuildYourStack #BookLove #KidLit

Join us Sat for the Fall 2025 #TheEdCollabGathering with the *wonder-full* Stella Villalba and Katie Wood Ray. All are welcome: theeducatorcollaborative.com/wp-content/u... @jessicawalshedu.bsky.social @theedcollab.bsky.social

Wrapped up our Novel in Verse unit by performing poems from our books in the Starbooks Cafe! 🤌🏼📚☕️🕯️#204Reads

🐻📚 Grizzly Readers met for Caudill Books & Bites Book Club today to discuss Lasagna Means I Love You by @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social ! @rcyrba.bsky.social #204Reads

Professional texts I spent time with in January #204Reads

Here’s our complete (but growing!) classroom library collection: docs.google.com/presentation... #VerseNovels

This week, Grizzly readers selected their new Dive In book for our Verse Unit after days of book tastings! 🐻📚 @authorlisafipps.bsky.social @aidawrites.bsky.social #VerseNovels #204Reads

I can see why readers rave about Lifeboat 12 by @susanhood.bsky.social! Excited to add it to next month’s Novels in Verse unit with 7th graders! #204Reads

Wow! One of the best books I read this year! And Then, Boom! by (I just discovered) fellow Ball State grad @authorlisafipps.bsky.social (chirp chirp!) Can’t wait to include this in our Novels in Verse unit next month! #204Reads

November’s Caudill Books & Bites Book Club selection was Christina Soontornvat’s The Tryout! @rcyrba.bsky.social #204Reads

This was excellent! #204Reads

This week Grizzly readers gathered for Caudill Books & Bites Book Club to discuss @dsantat’s A First Time for Everything! 📚 🍽️ Up next, Lasagna Means I Love You! @rcyrba.bsky.social @dansantat.bsky.social #204Reads

Can’t wait to start our next read aloud with Grizzly 7th graders, Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi, a beautiful novel in verse about belonging, family, and Da Bears! 🐻⬇️ #204Reads

Wow! The @chicagosymphony.bsky.social took Elf to another level! 🎶🎄🎞️

Another beautiful novel in verse to add to our classroom library! @victoriachang.bsky.social #204Reads

Loved seeing &Juliet at @broadwayinchicago.bsky.social this week! 🎶 🎧 💓

Such a nice surprise to have one of my families send items from our class wishlist! #kwamealexander @littlebrownyr.bsky.social #aidasalazar @penguinschoollib.bsky.social @lamargiles.bsky.social #204Reads

Stuck around after #NCTE24! Visited Brookline Booksmith where I spotted and bought And Then, Boom! by @authorlisafipps.bsky.social! #204Reads

Thanks @brianlarossa.com for reminding me it's #nationalillustrationday. Celebrate by sharing a wordless picture book with a reader. Here's a small sampling of my favorites to share with kids. Which wordless picture books have resonated with your students? #edusky #kidlitart #kidlit

Here's a few of the picture books that I can't wait to share with kids and teachers!📚💛 #EduSky #NCTE24 @stephenbriseno.bsky.social @karilavellewrites.bsky.social @joannahowrites.bsky.social @thetututeacher.bsky.social

How do you spell thankful? Read alouds to spark conversations about gratitude. 📚💛 #Gratitude #Thankfulness #Read #ReadAloud #KidLit

Incredible Novel in Verse session at #NCTE24. @rajanilarocca.bsky.social @kaholt.bsky.social @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social

Running into my @theedcollab.bsky.social tech partner-in-crime = priceless! #NCTE24

Loved sharing our favorite Family and Food picture book and novel pairings at our Build Your Stack session today! #NCTE24 @mariapwalther.bsky.social

So excited to be at #NCTE24 celebrating the joy and power of picture book read alouds! I’m looking forward to connecting with educators, creators, and fellow book lovers here!📚💛

📚🐻 7th grade Book Clubs are thriving! @ellenhopkins.bsky.social @nancyrosep.bsky.social #kwamealexander #jamespatterson @hachettelibrary.bsky.social #204Reads

Looking forward to all of the BYS sessions this weekend at #NCTE24!

No place like Soldier Field. 🐻⬇️

💔We miss EduTwitter very much. 💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab 🙏Tag & invite other edufriends! We can figure this app our together. While we (re)build community.

Looking forward to reconnecting with friends at #NCTE24! All of the Build Your Stack sessions look amazing! Would love to see you! convention.ncte.org/build-your-s...