Yay it’s @monishablair.bsky.social! She’s full of great knowledge have a listen! #tlsky #sllnpodcast @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

What do you call two middle aged white men? Not this podcast episode! Catch Deborah and I talking to Steve about one of our favorite things: empowering student leadership to build community. It’s our first time on a podcast!

This week, @monishablair.bsky.social & Deborah Sran share their “Travelling Museum of Service” in ep. 73 of the #SLLNPodcast! Get it on your favorite podcatcher (search SLLN), or here: sllnpodcast.libsyn.com/073-lewis-le... #TLSky #SchoolLibrary #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat

It was my pleasure! I have a great gig… I get to chat about fabulous new books with their authors ❤️

Many thanks to @slj.com's Middle Grade Magic and moderator @monishablair.bsky.social for hosting Kate on the "Growing Up & Finding You" panel. You can still watch the replay of the full panel here: www.slj.com/event/middle...

At Middle Grade Magic, Kate Lumsden spoke about academic pressure faced both by the main character of her middle grade novel, CONFESSIONS OF A MANGO (co-written with Nate Pieplow), and by herself and kids today. Find your copy of this book on shelves April 14! 🥭🦜 www.instagram.com/reel/DV8uCrX...

Why does he have toes!? What purpose does that serve on a mannequin? The female presenting ones do not have toes

How does this address the literacy crisis??? We *should* be challenged by reading material.

Who has a quince coming up? Prom?

Today in Civics, Ss worked together to create a meme to demonstrate a type of media bias. The kids did not disappoint in showing they get what’s going on around them. Lots of criticism of the current state of our government from our 8th graders.

It's #MiddleGradeMagic day! If you haven't already registered, follow the link below, and be sure to join in for panels featuring LBYR authors ⬇️ 1:15–2:05 PM ET: @mustachebabs.com (The Library of Memories) 3:40–4:25 PM ET: Kate Lumsden (Confessions of a Mango) www.slj.com/event/middle...

Today! Don’t forget to register. All of the day’s sessions will be available on demand after

I’m so proud of my current and former students! 🥹❤️

American History Through a Local Lens | Teaching America at 250 www.slj.com/story/americ...

Teaching America at 250 Together, SLJ's Teaching at 250 articles and interviews explore what it means to teach, write, and live U.S. history at 250. www.slj.com/story/teachi...

Check out this feature in @slj.com ‘s March issue on the student created traveling museum of service that we hosted in January. Thank you @karayorio.bsky.social for the beautiful spotlight on our students’ work! www.slj.com/story/americ... @drewsgotthoughts.bsky.social

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Olympic fun in the library today! We did some library book curling paired with book trivia 🥌

School librarians are licensed teachers, often with advanced degrees, who teach students how to access, process, and share information from many and varied sources. Bookshelves can’t do that, Stewart. The library without a librarian is neither curated nor fully resourced. It is just a room.

“Welcome extra”??? Who else is purchasing, maintaining, and curating those resources?

❤️❤️❤️ who matters to you and how do you show them?

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

Thomas shares 4 strategies to create a curious classroom: https://edut.to/4qknKhq

I just got an OOO message from someone at Penguin Young Readers saying that it’s Drop Everything and Read day so they won’t be responding to emails. I love that for them and I want that for me.

A colleague asked what I thought about middle schoolers last week. "I love middle schoolers as a group. They're becoming aware of the problems with the world they're inheriting. They want to know the real deal, not the little kid version, and then they want to do something about it."

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, I wonder if curiosity will become one of the most valuable human qualities left. Here's my latest blog about 'curiosity': school-matters.org/2026/02/13/k... #education #edusky #teachers

Finally watched this and was sobbing as @librarianjones.com talked about our responsibility to protect kids 💔💔💔 Highly recommend everyone watch this documentary. The work we do matters.

Bad Bunny like

Watching the Canada/ Swiss women’s hockey game Me: There’s not enough octopus being thrown on the ice Husband: ??? #Redwings #HockeytoownUSA

at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.

Team Czechia looks like they’re wearing the Maryland state flag #Olympics

The CIA’s World Factbook, a repository of facts on nations that for six decades provided detailed figures on birth and death rates and major exports, relied upon first by government agents and eventually researchers, educators, journalists and more, was shuttered without warning on Wednesday.

This is the way ❤️

For National News Literacy week I have all of our 8th graders in the library this week learning about credibility for health research. Media literacy is a life skill not confined to a single subject.

So it’s National Library Lovers month, how are you celebrating?

Shot through the heart, and you're to blame.....

beating my drum again: It bears repeating, at a moment when we are all too aware of the powerlessness of young people, that the mission of public libraries to treat *everyone* as a patron, regardless of age—to grant children civic standing through the library card—exemplifies *real* democracy. 📚

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

people might be even more surprised when they learn that in my library network, children are accorded the same privacy rights as all other patrons. We will not share their borrowing history with anyone else; in fact, we do not even have access to it.

Folx are generally surprised and confused when I talk about patrons’ right to privacy and I wonder if it’s bc they don’t expect to have a right to privacy anymore or if it’s bc I primarily serve children

The teen is finally awake so it’s time to binge the new season of #QueerEye I’m ready for all the feels 🥹🥹🥹

THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST by Aubrey Hartman is a 2026 Newbery Honor Book! Join us in congratulating Aubrey!

Woohoo! This is such a fabulous book

Congrats Aubrey!

What a year for Candace Fleming! #ALAYMA

The Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults goes to Candace Fleming #ALAyma

Congrats Marie! So glad we got to chat about how wonderful Split the Sky is over the summer