With the NOAA layoffs, every neighborhood in Southeast Texas is going to have to appoint a retiree to this position this hurricane season.

Had an awesome experience with my local ABC network discussing the Super Bowl performance from the perspective of an AP AAS teacher ✊🏾🤎 youtu.be/HDx5QQ9WUGg?...

I don’t share this for sympathy or advice. I’m an exceptional teacher with a decade of experience. I’m doing phenomenal work in my classroom and in my school. My students are thriving. And I cannot enjoy any of it because I’m running on empty all the time.

If anyone needs a lesson tomorrow, I made this real quick on Kendrick’s halftime performance. It’s going to be my Black Fact of the Day, because Black History isn’t just the past, it’s the present as well 🤎✊🏾 gamma.app/docs/Analyzi...

Most of us are not in a position to do anything huge or earth-shattering to combat the creeping fascism, and so things feel really hopeless. It feels impossible that something huge enough to save us will come along. It feels like there is nothing we can do to make it happen. But. 🧵

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

10 Actions Teachers Can Take Now That Trump Is President www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

The existence of the song "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in the animated Grinch movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch implies the existence of a Who Jesus. So I asked AI what that might look like. You're welcome. God bless us, every one.

Thank you @npr.org This is how you write a headline about THE Nikki Giovanni’s passing.

Just got back from Wicked and I regret to inform everyone that I will be entering every room henceforth with "IT'S MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

If you are interested in the fight against book bans, I'd love to invite you to listen to this episode, where we had a chance to deep dive into the philosophy of fighting for our kids' freedom to read. Kelly is one of the nation's foremost experts on bans, and it was a pleasure to chat with her!

This looks more like HISD's current libraries.

First, they came for librarians. Now, the #Texas State Legislature is coming for booksellers with Senate Bill SB 88. So, if a 17-year-old wanders into our art section and looks at a book containing a nude photograph/painting, we could be prosecuted. #bannedbooks #bookstore #bookstores #censorship

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

Hear what our co-founder @laneyhawes.bsky.social has to say about the recent move by the SBOE to prioritize turning itself into a state censor of Texas school library books. State Board of Education looks to expand control on school library books cbsaustin.com/news/local/s...

I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

Hey #EduSky #NCTE24 folks - share some titles you picked up in the exhibit hall that you’re EXCITED about to help build our TBRs! A few of my fave 2025 titles from Renée Watson, @barbaradee.bsky.social, Padma Venkatraman & @marthabee.bsky.social…

Freedom Trail audio tour app: Now, look to your left! Do you see a Chipotle? 😄 Me: 😒

"Inside a poem, anything is possible. Maybe we can make that true of life as well." Ada Limon's #NCTE24 keynote was everything my heart needed.

As your time at #NCTE24 comes to a close, consider taking five minutes to write about your journey here. Then: Find your local NCTE affiliate. Find your local National Writing Project site. Thank you, NCTE affiliate and NWP site leaders. We are transformed in and through the work, together.

I loved what Ada Limon had to say about writer's block in her talk at #NCTE24 today: "It is not so much that you don't have anything to say; it's that you have so much to say." We have to take time to sort through the overwhelmingness of it all, time to let one good idea at a time shine through.

Heading home after a heady, exhilarating, & exhausting few days at NCTE confirmed in my conviction that it’s community, connection, and conversation that will get us through everything yet to come.

“The world isn’t going to be saved by technology, but by our own creative imaginations to rethink the possibilities of existence” Ada Limón speaking at NCTE 2024

Hi #NCTE24 If you’re a beautiful young teacher I spoke to last night and you told me ‘names matter,’ I need to find you and follow you and tell you that you made my entire life. Thank you! Please be here!

#ncte24 #edusky You’re not alone. In fact you are the light that may guide others.

Loving the closing message at #NCTE24: "You are not alone."

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

This morning at #NCTE24, @gmfunk.bsky.social, Mary Luckritz, & I presented on theatre in the classroom: physical/vocal warmups, consent work & stage combat, adapting prose to plays, and oral interpretation! Let’s see some more theatre sessions next year at #NCTE25: submit something fun!

“The books that break our hearts grow our hearts.” I hope one day everyone gets a chance to read or hear @joknowles.bsky.social moving speech about fighting censorship. #NCTE24

1972!!!

I just learned that books published in the 1990s are considered historical fiction and I am calling the police.

It's official! Thank you to the #NCTE poetry award committee; I'm incredibly honored to be among the likes of Lisa Fipps, John Schu, Kwame Alexander, Renée Watson, Shifa Saltagi, Alicia D. Williams, Amber McBride, and Aida Salazar. Congratulations to all! #kidlit #verse #poetry

We had a flag-waving good time on the Queer Picture Book Joy panel yesterday. @allenwriteswell.bsky.social #lesléanewman @ericrosswood.bsky.social #jeanettebradley and @mwduff.bsky.social. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #NCTE24 #littlebeebooks @glaad.bsky.social #gillianreid #MollysTuxedo

Reminder that we don't owe fascists and book banners comfort.

Yes! Here is the author of ON TYRANNY, Tim Snyder, discussing what he means by DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE. Highly recommend the book. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Okay, Texas teacher friends! We can have a few days, as a treat. Friday, though, we are talking about these House and Senate book bills: what to do at your campus, what to do regarding local and state action, how to fortify yourself for what's coming. Get ready to become loud and difficult!

#NCTE24 3 Day 3 highlights 1. Kylene Beers: If you're trying to determine if something has worth, ask yourself if it's ever been withheld from a group of people.

As I continue through each of the stages of grief following the election, this poem maintains an ongoing presence in my mind.

Finally met Hannah Moushabeck and already plotting shit together for/with our kids. 🇵🇸🇵🇷 🖤🖤✊🏽✊🏽 #ncte24 #kidlit #freealloccupiedlands

My biggest and most important takeaway from #NCTE2024, and the one I will be sharing widely and freely as we see this rapidly approaching asteroid: DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.

Yesterday in an #NCTE24 book line, some first-time attendees asked me for my advice, and I said, "Forgive yourself for what you're not able to do." And I am reminding myself of that today as the hours dwindle down and I scroll through the schedule and realize how much I didn't see or do.

ALA President Cindy Hohl: “Over the past two years, there have been over 200 bills in state legislatures proposing — and some that have passed — that would institute statewide book bans in school libraries and/or...1/2 thehill.com/homenews/edu...

At #NCTE24 this week, this is the message I'll be sharing on repeat.

“Hope is not always rational but it is always necessary” -Bryan Stevenson #NCTE24

Hey #NCTE24, it would be real real cool if every single speaker and session didn't make me weep. 🙄😂😭 I am a wreck at all times. If you see me crying in a keynote or a session, remind me to drink water.

The incomparable @heymrsbond.bsky.social pulling some deep thinking out of us bright and early on Saturday morning! #NCTE24