I am in love with all the little old lady names our kindergarteners have -Shirley, Priscilla, Dorothy, Maisie, Maeve, Edith, Penelope, Eleanor, Ginger, Opal, Marian,Hazel and more. I am fascinated with trends I see in naming #Teaching #Edusky #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarians

Friday teacher tired

🧵Funny first grade #teacher story today. This kid broke his arm and has been hanging out in the #SchoolLibrary with me. I asked him “Wasn’t your cast blue yesterday?” “I don’t want to talk about it.” Next recess he says it got wet. 🧵 #Edusky #Skybrarians

A 6th grader got me good this week and I have to give her credit. She asked how long I have known her for. I said ‘6 - 7 years’ The entire class started laughing. If you are a #teacher you know. #Edusky #SchoolLibrarian #Skybrarian

This might come in handy for a digital citizenship lesson.

Our kindergartners started school on Monday (they start a few days later than everyone else) and they are so tiny! I forget how little and cute they are at the beginning to the year. Exhausting, but cute. #Skybrarians #SchoolLibrarians #Edusky#Teaching

Oooh yay! I need to deep dive into this and see what this #SchoolLibrarian #Skybrarian is missing

Attempting to do yoga. My downward dog companions. 😉😄🧘‍♀️

Taylor and Travis books are all checked out now. This lucky student got one of each. #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarians

I took the summer off (mostly)from reading #MGBooks and I need recs for new books #Skybrarians #SchoolLibrarians #KidLit #Edusky What new or upcoming #Books have you loved?

This week was meet the teacher at my school. It is so great to see the students again, but standing outside in the heat for 2 hours greeting families, directing them to classes, being “on” again has me exhausted and thankful for the long weekend. #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarians

Such a good book but so many tears😭. I think I cried through the entire thing. I needed a good cry over this past week. Or maybe I was already primed to cry? I listened to the audio book -great narration, great translation.💙📚#Books

I admit I am a sucker for books with cool edges! New R.F. Kuang book release day.

All my teacher friends - looks like we are in for another year of skibidi toilet. Costco has skibidi toilet action figures. #Edusky #Teaching

That is a seriously messed up backwards system.

This is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.

@pbump.com I am seeing a meme that states Texas has more registered Dems than Reps. I am trying to verify, but am finding it tricky to find accurate, reputable, verifiable data to either confirm or dispute this claim. This might be a great upcoming analysis for you?

I wondered if it was just increased news and social media attention or actually more fires.

As the new school year approaches here’s a friendly reminder that librarians are teachers too! Most of us hold master’s degrees and state certifications. #librarian #teacher #schoollibrarian

The true sign that summer is ending and school is approaching - I got my Safe Schools notification. #Teaching #Ed #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrariams

This made me laugh. Too many werewolf romance books in my past.

Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz is a book within a book- two..no wait three mysteries to figure out. #AD #Mystery #AudioBook Can an editor solve a book in progress murder, a 20 year old possible murder, and a current crime? 💙📚 #BookLover #BookSky

Zen waves and sunset at Mukilteo beach in Washington state.

June me- Summer off, I will schedule all my doctor appointments, back to school hair appt, and everything else now while I have time! August me-😭🥺Why is every day in August booked with something???

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I am #Reading The Incandescent by Emily Tesh #AD #Fantasy and you can tell the author is a teacher. I ❤️#DarkAcademia books and this one will be on many best listsin December. Demons and magic. This one focuses on the teacher’s POV which is refreshing. 💙📚

Teacher life = Summer projects. I am (attempting) to redo the backyard. Progress is slow but sure. Daily I make numerous trips to the - sand, pea gravel, dirt, plants, and stone.

This may be me one 100 or so occasions

Spotify has AI DJ’s and I am disturbed. IDK why a curated playlist suggestion doesn’t bother me but add in an AI generated voice that sounds like a real person - 🤢.

Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan is a #MGBook #Historical #WWII told from a Muslim perspective. Safiyyah is in Paris during the German invasion and occupation. This is based on true events. I loved it and rec it to all #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarian 📚💙

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

You know how those of us who've been covering and talking about and shouting about book bans for over 4 years now have talked about how vital it is to show up to school board meetings and library board meetings? How necessary it is to vote down ballot? How change happens by "being political?"

Hmmmm… what a coincidence.

Crater Lake National Park is so worth the trip. The blues are an artist’s dreams. So many shades and all amazingly beautiful. Photos don’t do it justice.

Teacher on summer break 1st week- sleep and lay around 2nd week- clean, clean, and clean 3rd week- what house project should I take on this summer? My To Do list keeps growing

I’ve read The Tainted Cup - excellent book. I will add the others to my TBR pile #Fantasy #ADBooks

I do love V.E.Schwab stories. #ADBooks #Fantasy #Booksky 💙📚 Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil jumps around in time-1500s,1800s, and 2019. I’m only 1/2 way through, but Lesbian Vampires wasn’t on my bingo card😉

Each month, just for fun, I create "reading challenges" that focus on authentic reasons for #reading (instead of having kids log page numbers, etc), AND that couple reading w/coloring b/c BOTH are proven stress relievers. Here's this month's offering! Enjoy!#TLSkyChat #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarian

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

Real or AI? Here is a gift article from NYT. I got 6/10 correct. What is your score? Being able to tell if things are real or AI is a real concern. So much mis/mal information can be spread. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The assassination of a sitting congressperson and her husband should be headline news every day for the rest of this presidency. Every single fucking day.

Teachers were more likely in 2025 than similar working adults to report experiencing poor well-being on every indicator—a consistent pattern since 2021. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

@lastweektonight.com finishes taping show on Saturday and a blink of an eye later Trump announces he has bombed Iran. Hmmmm… I think T is trying to torture JO.

What are you doing today to help your public library? Be a part of the solution and not the problem. #SaveLibraries @la-cac.org

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

"I am who I am today because I had a pretty remarkable imagination. I dreamed a lot. And I had lots of ideas based on books I read in school." 175+ Houston ISD schools no longer have functioning libraries; 93% of the affected students live in/near poverty. TX: ALL children deserve school libraries.

I haven’t been posting much because… you know… end of school year. Kids are feral, all the teachers are exhausted, life is unreal. But this is our last week! I can do this. Year 16 teaching

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Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell is an #ADBook #Audiobook that manages to be cute and cozy yet gross and horrific at the same time. The monster manages to be naively witty in its evilness and innocence. A fun read. #Fantasy 📚💙 #Nebula #Hugo #SkyBook #BookRec

It is Friday and we have ONE week of school left! I can do this.Yes I can!