If you care about literacy rates AND YOU SHOULD BECAUSE IT REALLY MATTERS, then you cannot cut school librarians. School libraries staffed by certified school librarians improve reading capacity. Every bit of research we have proves this. It's a settled question. www.kpbs.org/news/educati...

#tdih 1943, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, & Christoph Probst -- members of the White Rose -- were executed 💔 for their role in urging students to rise up & overthrow the Nazi government. #Resist In face of evil, "why do you not rouse yourselves?" they implored. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wh...

I am ready to burn it all down. 1. The district still has not informed its teachers; 2. They have not provided alternate resources; 3. Teachers have sent our concerns, and apparently my district considers these valid concerns to be “manufactured outrage” www.live5news.com/2025/02/19/r...

Trump orders White House to be renamed Don’s Mojo Dojo Casa House

Got called a racist today. By a white kid in reference to white people. Job well done, me.

Going into this week with my new mantra: “Lord, grant me the pettiness of Kendrick Lamar”

“Per my last email.”

Watching that Kendrick Lamar halftime show after dealing with some BS at my school district last week is a GREAT energy to be taking to Hill Day this week ... my representatives better be afraid 🤣

Fabulous 🇺🇸💥

drake: oh good, the lawsuits worked kendrick:

As we celebrate Black History Month, we remember Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance figure and librarian at Fisk University, who preserved Black culture and history for future generations. #BlackHistoryMonth #CulturalPreservation

I hate that this guy is called that because we had a cat named Big Balls aka Biggie that died. He will posthumously only be known as Biggie

"Every book banned this week in South Carolina is by or about people of color and/or LGBTQ+ people." Please let lawmakers and the state board know this makes you mad. These books were challenged in Beaufort Co. and reconsideration committees voted to RETAIN the titles. (1/2)

Taking a break from my regularly scheduled Gamecock WBB fandom to say Go to Hell Carolina. #LetsGoDuke

We were doing our annual lesson using “Some Were Neighbors” with my eighth graders … and the children definitely made the connections to here and now with zero prompting. exhibitions.ushmm.org/some-were-ne...

WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Amazing how quickly we went from *dissolve the Department of Education* to use federal power to pursue a petty, vengeful and unpopular agenda. Even at the height of the anti-CRT panic cutting funds to schools was deeply unpopular w/ the public /1

Good story about what really impacts reading scores … poverty.

They plagiarized our trillion dollar plagiarism machine!?

Damn our lived experiences, right?

Right now, two states–Utah and South Carolina–have state-sanctioned ban lists. That means these titles need to be removed from every. single. public. school. Here are the lists as of right now: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A black kid committed a school shooting and was radicalized by anti-Black and Nazi propaganda? Man. This country is in big fucking trouble.

I love watching the Gamecocks dominate!! 🐓

FYI Unrivaled Basketball is really fun so far. Super fast-paced. Excellent players. Literally designed for TV watching.

Gamecocks rout the Longhorns with a defensive gem Read on GamecockCentral ➡️ gcon3.com/tkghpj

Saw part of this dumpster fire today in between teaching classes. What a farce. The committee not only does not look at literary merit, but they are recommending banning four books that the Beaufort community committees ALREADY REVIEWED AND RETURNED to shelves.

The state department of education, in making this decision, is siding with a guy who is a defendant in not one, but two lawsuits against local teachers for defamation. Bravo, SCDE, great company and support of your educators.

In case you missed it, here’s what happened in today’s SC Senate Education meeting.

First read aloud of the year was “We Celebrate the Light” by Jane Yolen and @heidieys.bsky.social , illustrated by Jieting Chen. We made sun catchers in preparation for Lunar New Year!

56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Not on this list: buy the books. That's an act of capitalism (we want answers to be this because that's our training). Buy the books if you want, but that's not activism nor advocacy. These things are. bookriot.com/56-small-tas...

I’m thinking of doing a “read these books in 2024” thread … we will see how I keep up …

Le sigh

I need someone to make one of those 9 panel photo things that says “which Shane Beamer are you?” because this man’s facial expressions are EVERYTHING @gamecockcentral.bsky.social

More Tito in 2025

Guys. GUYS. WE GOT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS.

This December, I am reading books from the perspective of Jim. Just finished Big Jim and the White Boy and shed a few tears; what a beautiful graphic novel that explores narrative and story-telling and family history. A few chapters into James, and loving it already.

I have spent this weekend trying to recover from multiple parents accosting me at the spelling bee about how I pronounced words at the spelling bee. For the record, I know the phonetic alphabet, and pronounced them exactly how Scripps told me to …

Superintendent Weaver touted gains in vacancies, but the truth is it’s just smoke and mirrors to cover up the ongoing crisis while she does nothing to improve the situation. www.postandcourier.com/education-la...

RIP Baby Kitty. October 15, 2004 - December 2, 2024.

I have to let go of my twenty year old cat on Tuesday and I am not ready 😭

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Show me a picture on your phone that’s not a selfie? All too easy.

Today one of our long term subs asked if subs can check out books. Girl, you are speaking my friendship language, and here are several novels in verse you might enjoy …

Can anyone remind me why we have two days of school this week? Nope? Great.

If you ever wanted to experience what a medieval torture device felt like, can I recommend a breast MRI for you? So happy I get to make this a yearly event (sarcasm). Still feeling scarred two days later lol

Yes! Exactly what happened yesterday in SC. otherduties.substack.com/p/sc-committ...

🚨BREAKING UPDATE: I am in receipt of my #FOIA request to the @EducationSC and @ellenfored. I am currently working through all of the data to determine if any of our tax dollars were spent on the partnership with @prageru. I will be planning a public update in December. #SCPol

So several years ago I found out my bday is also International Men’s Day (barf), but thank yo my school news team yesterday, I found out 11/19 is also NATIONAL LEWIS DAY.

Another birthday, another plea for library books! bookshop.org/wishlists/92...