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7th grade ELA teacher 🍎 Reader 📚 National Board Certified Teacher 🎇
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Jim Musil Painter
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My painting TROUT WATER
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Laurel Snyder
3 months ago
Guys guys guys!! The entire digital F&G of Shrinking Violet *is* online. But I'm not sure whether you can see it without logging in... <wriggles excitedly>
online.flippingbook.com/link/418062/
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Waka T. Brown
3 months ago
As I bit into a persimmon today, I was reminded that it's the same season that my Oregon Book Award-winning story THE VERY UNFORTUNATE WISH OF MELONY YOSHIMURA takes place. Please read if you're looking for a spooky middle-grade re-telling of a Japanese folktale!
#kidlit
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We’re going BIG this year! 7th graders have already read more than 144 books in 5 weeks this school year! They want to get to 1000!
#bookgoals
Let’s see if we can get more than 100 more with your books! 🎥🦈📚
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Megan E. Freeman
3 months ago
I’m so excited to officially announce a third companion novel in the ALONE series! Publication is planned for Jan ‘27, but I need help with a title! Should it start with A? Should it be one word? If your readers have ideas, I would love to hear them!
@simonkids.bsky.social
@mgauthorcade.bsky.social
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Edutopia
4 months ago
“Being a teacher is an essential connection between what is and what can be.” —Teresa Thayer Snyder
#EduSky
#teachers
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Poets & Writers
4 months ago
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic guide on the writing process and the artist’s identity by Brenda Ueland, and
#PWWritingPrompts
on sharing the air, shorelines, and imperfect objects. Read more:
at.pw.org/TTIN
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Who’s in? 100 days in a row…
#writinggoals
#amreading
#creativity
#journaling
#alchemyday1
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I’m loving Anthony’s story 💜 I’m pulling for Roddy’s story next 🤞🤞🤞#amreading
#graphicnovels
#bookgoals
#kidlit
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Tomorrow is going to be exciting…it’s anyone guess who will get to change this to 6 ✋🤚… 🤣🤣🤣 The real celebration will be more than 60 books read in only our 3rd week of school!!!
#reading
#ELA
#middleschoolmagic
#bookgoals
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2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People's Literature
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
https://www.nationalbook.org/2025-national-book-awards-longlist-for-young-peoples-literature/
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Enter to win from
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📚an amazing group of authors!!!
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Edutopia
5 months ago
3 members of the Teach Like a Champion team explain why students need to read whole books—even when it’s hard:
edut.to/3IWhzjS
#EduSky
#literacy
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Book 12 ✅
#summerreading
#bookgoals
#ELA
#ELAteacher
#30booksummer
#PD
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Edutopia
5 months ago
To help teachers make design choices that optimize their classrooms for effective learning, we consulted dozens of studies and asked our community of experienced educators to share their favorite strategies. Here are some of the top classroom design tips we found. 🔎 🧵1/9
#EduSky
#ClassroomDesign
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Edutopia
5 months ago
Classroom design is partly an art, and partly a science. To make it easier for you this year, we compiled 27 research-backed, teacher-tested tips. Check ‘em out below. 👇
#ClassroomDesign
#BackToSchool
#EduSky
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27 Ways to Optimize Your Classroom Design for Better Learning
A research-based lineup of smart, effective classroom design tips that support deep learning, reduce distraction, and build belonging.
https://edut.to/452WJql
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Grant Snider
5 months ago
Haiku July, Day 28
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Beautiful book! Book #11 ✅
#summerreading
#bookgoals
#poetry
#kidlit
#30booksummer
#readthis
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Book #10
#summerreading
#30booksummer
#poetry
#bookgoals
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Book 9
#summerreading
#30booksummer
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PBS News Classroom
5 months ago
Teachers: Check out our PBS @NewsHour Classroom #JournalismInAction Exploitation: Labor and Immigration Fun interactives, photos, videos and newspaper articles — all high-quality #primarysources from the @LibraryCongress! Gr 6-12. #sschat #civics #apgov #apush Case Link:
https://bit.ly/44S8QpU
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Grant Snider
5 months ago
Haiku July, Day 17
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Edutopia
5 months ago
Spark a lifelong love of reading with these 4 classroom strategies that will keep students turning pages all school year long. 📖✨
#EduSky
#ElementaryTeacher
#literacy
#EdutopiaVideos
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Ira Marcks
6 months ago
If an artist inspired you—even forever ago—tell them. We share the cool stuff when it happens, but most of our time is spent being quietly uncool. The one thing we can count on is knowing we’ve inspired others to chase their own cool things. This is a nice reminder ❤️
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Lora Senf
6 months ago
Well this snuck up on me. THE LONELIEST PLACE (Blight Harbor #3) is out in PB on July 15th. Now you can get Evie's whole story in paperback. And PENNIES - a Blight Harbor prequel - is coming on September 23rd. All my books available signed from Aunties and Wishing Tree in Spokane, WA. They ship!
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Edutopia
6 months ago
Are your tried-and-true scaffolding strategies still effective? If you’re looking for new ways to support students,
@toddfinley.bsky.social
shares eight lesser-known techniques that will make you ask: Why didn’t I know this?
#EduSky
#EdChat
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Edutopia
6 months ago
Make the mistake! 💯
#EduSky
#teachers
#WhatWorksForMe
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Book 8 ✅ Compelling, heartbreaking, and hopeful as always, talented author
#readthis
#summereading
#bookgoals
#30booksummer
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Grant Snider
7 months ago
Today on the Incidental Comics newsletter, a look inside my top secret sketchbook practice:
incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/what-to-pu...
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
7 months ago
THE NEW GIRL by Cassandra Calin (Scholastic) is a funny, feel-good MG graphic novel inspired by author's own immigration experience. 1st in a series, can't wait to read the next!
www.scholastic.ca/our-books/bo...
More about Cassandra:
linktr.ee/cassandracalin
#CanKidLit
#SchwartzAwards
#EduSky
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Marcus Luther
7 months ago
"Reminder: Teachers Make Mistakes!" Something we should put in front of our students way more often, I think.
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Book 7
#amreading
#summerreading
#30booksummer
#bookgoals
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Book 6 ✅ fascinating story
#summerreading
#bookgoals
#30booksummer
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Grant Snider
7 months ago
"The white clouds are scudding across the blue sky." -Anne Brontë, "Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day"
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Edutopia
7 months ago
“After years in both the classroom and leadership roles, I’ve watched a familiar pattern unfold: we plan with intention, teach with care, and still, students forget. The problem isn’t motivation—it’s memory. And that’s where the science of learning offers us a lifeline.” 🧠
#EduSky
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7 Retrieval Activities That Help Learning Stick
These low-pressure, brain-based learning strategies help students retrieve what they know, building confidence and motivation.
https://edut.to/4dGG3bQ
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Book 5 ✅ Beautiful story
#SummerReading
#30booksummer
#bookgoals
#graphicnovels
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Edutopia
7 months ago
You’ve seen the signs of cognitive overload: the deer in the headlights look, procrastination, or students saying “I don’t know what to do.” So how can you support students? 🧠 These resources can help them develop the metacognitive skills they need.
#ElementaryTeacher
#EduSky
#metacognition
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Teaching Young Students How to Overcome Cognitive Overload
Teachers can help students develop the metacognitive skills to avoid becoming overwhelmed by school demands.
https://edut.to/3FD1I8j
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Edutopia
7 months ago
Subtraction is an action—one that teachers can use strategically. Educator
@crystalfrommert.bsky.social
offers a guide for trimming your to-do list. ✂️
#EduSky
#teachers
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What Can Teachers Subtract From Their Workloads?
Cutting back on things that wear teachers down can make a real difference in their well-being and professional outlook.
https://edut.to/4dLXE2n
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Marcus Luther
7 months ago
My favorite Google Document over this final stretch of the school year: a brainstorm of "Learnings" from this year + "Imaginings" for next year (Also: so many imaginings 100% the result of the ideas/strategies shared by folks on here! 🙏
@humanrestorationproject.org
,
@heymrsbond.com
, etc.)
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John Warner
7 months ago
I'm dismayed to run into a people who aren't convinced that human writing - rather than LLM text generation - is an important experience worth continuing to make available to students. Though I suppose if it were obvious, I wouldn't have written a book on it
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
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More Than Words
A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be...
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-warner/more-than-words/9781541605510/?lens=basic-books
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John Warner
7 months ago
Amen to the whole thread. Why are the skeptics framed as being in the way of progress when it's the past work of the enthusiasts that has already been shown to have failed?
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Book 4
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#readinggoals
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#readthis
This is an important one.
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David Bowles
7 months ago
Bookstr just posted a pretty amazing interview with
@rajanilarocca.bsky.social
,
@claudialupemtz.bsky.social
, Duncan Tonatiuh, Yuyi Morales and me about immigration issues and children's literature. Definitely worth a read!
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5 Children’s Authors: Confronting Immigration Topics With Readers
Five authors, five questions. We sit down and hear their perspectives on discussing the modern issues facing immigrants and asylum seekers with young audiences.
https://bookstr.com/article/5-childrens-authors-on-how-to-confront-immigration-issues-with-little-readers/
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Edutopia
9 months ago
Want to help your middle school students grow into stronger writers? Try these strategies to strengthen their process and confidence. ✍️⭐
#MiddleSchoolTeacher
#ITeachEnglish
#literacy
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Supporting Middle School Students in Their Writing
These simple strategies can sharpen learners’ skills in different genres and help them to become more confident writers.
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Edutopia
9 months ago
Looking for ways to get students to actually do their homework? This veteran teacher designed a nifty homework tracker for her students—and then made using it part of her classroom culture. 📝 Download a template here:
edut.to/4i151Ua
#EduSky
#MiddleSchoolTeacher
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Edutopia
8 months ago
Even when students need help, many won’t ask for it. So how can you change the dynamic? Research points to 3 effective strategies that help students go from silent frustration to actively seeking help. 🙌
#EduSky
#MiddleSchoolTeacher
#HighSchoolTeacher
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Why Students Don’t Ask for Help—and How to Change That
These three simple shifts can help students realize that asking for help is an expectation in your class and boost their self-efficacy.
https://edut.to/4ln2tT8
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Edutopia
7 months ago
Student-led teaching put students where they should be: at the center of learning. Get started with this guide from
@rdene915.bsky.social
👇
#EduSky
#MiddleSchool
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Getting Started With Student-Led Teaching
Peer teaching fosters active learning and guides students to develop communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
https://edut.to/4k6GPBm
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Edutopia
7 months ago
23 ways to keep calm and carry on with a rowdy middle school class, gathered by Edutopia’s
@annenoyessaini.bsky.social
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#MiddleSchool
#EduSky
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23 Ways to Quiet a Chaotic Middle School Class
Teacher-tested attention-getting routines to help you quickly restore calm and focus to noisy middle school classrooms.
https://edut.to/4k9Egi7
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