Have you signed up for this month’s Classroom Corridors Community Conversations? Will I see you on Thursday?

I had so much fun chatting with elementary educators tonight. I loved lifting my cohort colleagues, and it left me with such energy to be building community and joyful practice with everyone who came! We'll do it again at the end of May--will you join us?? @ncte.org

Does your class or library love THE RABBIT LISTENED? Bring Cori Doerrfeld’s picture books to life in your class or library with this educator guide by @msguerrette.bsky.social filled with discussion questions and activities! #EduSky 📚➡ penguinschoollibrary.com/CoriDoerrfel...

Next week, I have the privilege of facilitating the FIRST webinar in our new series of #NCTE Community Conversations. Join us Tuesday! Meet the Classroom Corridors team & let’s talk about ways to find and preserve joy in our classrooms and spaces. my.ncte.org/event-inform... @ncte.org

The Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy is BACK! Join @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social and I on July 9 and 10 for an ONLINE gathering focused on our most urgent challenges as educators right now. Register at TheIREL.org. ⬇️ #IREL25

Important. Watch. @senangusking.bsky.social lets it fly. "My job is to raise the alarm, because Heather, I believe we are in one of the most dangerous places our country has been in since the founding because what is happening before our eyes is the collapse of the constitutional structure..."

TEACHERS & SCHOOL LIBRARIANS - An opportunity to win a free school visit! forms.gle/qwWTXBAPyR8x...

📚 Don’t miss these 2025 middle grade releases from Indigenous authors and artists! Be sure to learn more about these titles, including plot summaries and creators’ tribal/nation affiliation, on the Indigenous Reads Rising website (also 🔗 in bio) 💻 indigenousreadsrising.com

These books bring joy and empathy into classrooms. I was especially inspired by the way @msguerrette.bsky.social uses questioning to push her students’ critical thinking. Classroom Corridors is a resource close to my heart. Check it out! #literacy #edusky #books #literature #NCTE

Have you checked out Classroom Corridors yet? Don’t miss the NEW monthly online resource for elementary educators from NCTE — for teachers, by teachers — like this book list I had the pleasure to curate and share! Want to know more? Ask me! #ClassroomCorridors #NCTE

What a day to have been able to introduce OES to the bright & incredible gem that is @rajanilarocca.bsky.social! I’m left reminded yet again: We’re a lucky school community to be hosting author visits & forging connections w. creators for our students. Each visit, each connection matters. #learn17

I'm giving away 10 SIGNED COPIES of Ruthie Rose's Big Idea for one teacher, teacher-librarian, or public librarian to GIVE AWAY TO STUDENTS. Repost by 11:30 p.m. CT on February 20 to enter the drawing. I'll buy the copies from Anderson's Bookshop. andersonsbookshop.com/book/9781536...

Mathical booooooookkkkkkksssssss www.mathicalbooks.org/2025/02/2025...

This 2019 piece by @samiraahmed.bsky.social through @slj.com is as relevant today as it was then. Recommended reading for all librarians and educators: www.slj.com/story/samira...

💗Ends tonight, Sunday, February 16, at 11:59pm EST. (U.S. only, please)💗 Picture book 🌟GIVEAWAY🌟! For a chance to win a copy of Heartfelt written by @elainebvickers.bsky.social & illustrated by #SamanthaCotterill, visit my website at www.booksbutterfliesandbeing.com!

What an amazing story! Loss, grief, absolution, friendship, family, belonging, love…all in a novel in verse which makes it accessible to so many more students. This was worth the wait! katemessner.com #BookPosse

I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them: •imagery •symbolism •message We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +

This was such a shot in the arm. Just what I needed. Yay kids! Yay teachers and librarians! Yay #wrad!

It might be that my favorite #WRAD25 moment came via video in my texts midday when I found out my littlest little (my niece) took my advanced copy of That’s Not Funny, David! to PreK to read aloud to her class today. Gah. Something in my eye.

There’s plenty that doesn’t feel ok, but today’s opportunities to connect my students w author guests for World Read Aloud Day sure felt good. Thanks for connecting, @laurelsnyder.bsky.social & @darshanakhiani.bsky.social. I loved watching my readers interact w you! #wrad25 @litworld.bsky.social

NCSS President Jennifer Morgan and Interim Executive Director Anton Schulzki have issued a statement on the January 29 Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling: hubs.li/Q035dq8Y0

Okay, pals. Time for action this month. We're going to do that by funding classrooms that are specifically seeking out Black history books. These classrooms are those that are in historically underfunded communities. These asks are from teachers whose students benefit directly.

I found and fell in love with HEARTFELT at #LibLearnX last weekend & ordered on the spot. 😍 It’s just what my classroom community (& every classroom?) needs right now. My mind is rolling with the potential extensions here and how my 5th graders will turn this into something of their own. 💕

I'm super grateful to the librarians & educators who have reached out to let me know that plans are already in the works to add THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES to your school's curriculum! Check out our teaching & discussion guide by the wonderful @msguerrette.bsky.social! www.bloomsbury.com/media/le1cko...

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it. Today is as good as any day to return to it.

Teachers & librarians! The amazing @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social has a present for you - a ten-minute virtual-author-visit video about her new NF chapter book ONE LONG LINE: MARCHING CATERPILLARS & THE SCIENTISTS WHO FOLLOWED THEM! Perfect for First-Chapter Friday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1n8...

It is my distinct pleasure and privilege to talk with the great Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang about an upcoming book honoring the demae of Japan. Get ready for a title that's both touching and incredible: #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/03/21/n...

Day Two: 31 Days, 31 Lists - Best 2024 Picture Book Readalouds. Today, we celebrate the books that can enrapture in mere moments thanks to the power of words and images (and your own vocal chords) alone. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/02/3...

This book is stuffed full of heartbreak, healing, and the wild and unexpected magic of the outdoors. Amazing, @katemessner.bsky.social! The cold that’s been chasing me for weeks finally caught up, but spending the day hiking with Finn made it so much better!

Teachers, librarians, & homeschoolers! If you pre-order my new MG novel in verse THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES from my local indie, you'll also get my FREE virtual author-in-residence program for National Poetry Month, with 4 on-demand virtual poetry workshops & an invitation to a live Zoom Q&A! (1/2)

Always a privilege to think about how to teach with Kate Messner’s books in the classroom and share those ideas with other educators! Have you preordered THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES yet? You’re going to want to!

AT OUR TABLE by Patrick Hulse w/art by Madelyn Goodnight is an updated, inclusive take on the Thanksgiving holiday for young readers, who will see themselves, their families & traditions represented while also acknowledging & honoring the Indigenous peoples for whom it may be painful. #kidlit 📚👍

@aidenschmaiden.bsky.social finished his keynote with a clear message, “When you fight for stories, you fight for lives.” As educators & readers we must speak up for these books that save readers’ lives. #ALAN24 #EduSky

Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop transformed how we see children's books and the world. Explore her powerful story in this oral history, created by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table for the 55th anniversary of the award. 📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors youtu.be/Zm6zmaERJ3c?...

✨ $149!!! ✨ Special Virtual Author Event with Alaskan Iñupiaq Author and Illustrator @nasugraq.bsky.social! bookelicious.com/blog/bookeli... 📅 2/24/25 @ 10a Alaska ST / 2p EST Register now! xuyx9zzuvpq.typeform.com/to/HJbBR9jU?... @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @macmillanusa.bsky.social #Alaska

If you love books and support great bookstores- our local Print is having a 20% anniversary sale online and in person! Now is a great time to stock up on gifts

My friend, colleague, and one of my models for how to fight for justice, @booktoss.bsky.social won an award for her part in creating the Lee and low diversity baseline survey. Support publishers who don’t just say they believe in books for all, but prove it with their work

Love this book and happy to be in this session learning from Dr. Angie Zapata! #ncte24

Teachers & librarians! Want an author to Zoom into your classroom for World Read Aloud Day February 5th? I'll be sending out this year's list of author/illustrator volunteers in my email newsletter next week! If you'd like access, sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO Shifa Saltagi Safadi! KAREEM BETWEEEN is the winner of the 2024 National Book Award! #NBawards

@lindaurbanbooks.bsky.social I’m so glad you’re here!!

Recommendations from Read Across America (NEA): www.nea.org/professional... #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Looking forward to getting curious with these savvy writers at #NCTE24 later this week. Join us? @sarahalbee.bsky.social @katemessner.bsky.social @angelapadron.bsky.social @rajanilarocca.bsky.social @msguerrette.bsky.social

Let's do a giveaway,! ELMORE THE CHRISTMAS MOOSE (art by @mikeboldt.bsky.social) makes a fantastic gift! I'm giving away 3 signed copies, one with this handsome plush Elmore bookmark. Follow & share by 11/23, bonus entry if you comment with a weird and wonderful Xmas anecdote. #kidlit

On Friday I’m looking forward to talking with these writers about the connection between curiosity and hope—and their passions for science literacy. I have no doubt there will be takeaways I’ll be eager to bring back to my classroom from our conversation… #NCTE24

If we were re-designing the education system from scratch, one thing I’d love to see is the destruction of the linear career ladder out of the classroom. Cyclical would be better, I think. Out-of-classroom positions, such as building leaders? Temporary. Then back into the classroom for a stretch.

Hi friends! New here. Kicking things off w/ a Gratitude #Giveaway for an ARC of SAME PAGE! With #Thanksgiving near, I'm channeling Bess, the mc in SAME PAGE & counting my blessings To enter: 💛 Like and share this post 💛 Follow me 💛 Tag a Book Warrior 💛 Tell me 1 thing you're grateful for Ends 11/18

It's my next book! It’s about survival about overcoming isolation about grief & anxiety and how they make us collapse in on ourselves, but how, with enough support, we can be brave enough to open back up to life and live without regrets. Gorgeous cover by Oriol Vidal. youtube.com/shorts/EutDY...