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Here is your guide to read and teach the works of Amber McBride! Fans of #dystopia will find GONE WOLF to be especially meaningful...Enjoy! 🧚🏾‍♀️✨🕯🦋💕 #Edusky #BookSky mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/an-educators...

Love this! Well worth your 8 minutes or so. Please read and share!📚🧚🏾‍♀️ www.hbook.com/story/amber-...

✨ BOOK FAIRS REIMAGINED ✨ ℹ️ For more info: www.bookelicious.com/educators/po... 👍 Students choose books 📚 Families buy books 💰 Schools benefit Learn more about how Bookelicious PopUp Shops can work for your school community!

SILENCED VOICES by @artsypabster.bsky.social is a great tool to teach the history of Guatemala and start important conversations about global politics. Librarian and educator @juliaerin80.bsky.social has written a blog post on how you can use this book in classrooms and libraries: bit.ly/46bzoTV 📚

The discovery that when I want a book with a "strong" message about race or any of the isms and the hold is too long--all I need to do is switch to a library system in the burbs...There is literally and always no wait. It's just such a mixed blessing...really sad in a way...

I've been told that there are 3 slots remaining for Circle Keeping 101 at Communiversity this Saturday and next Saturday (2 session class). This is in person. Sethu is a terrific facilitator and practitioner. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

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14 YA & MG Books & Graphic Novels with Disability Representation

Happy Birthday George Clinton! Explore the Parliament-Funkadelic mastermind's musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/GClintonHBD

The outcome of the Diddy trial has left hip hop fans with a palpable sense of disappointment. Co-founder @freeblackgirl.bsky.social writes about the possibility of sex work decriminalization and its intersections with high-profile sexual abuse cases. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/if-we-valu...

Summer is the season for reading 😎☀️📖 (We don’t make the rules!) Here’s what the WNDB staff is reading this season! Have you kicked off your #SummerReading plans yet?

Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer "rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"

Lavonnia Moore was fired when a child added "When Aidan Became a Brother" to the “Color Our World" display. Moore did not censor it. "Aidan" is in the #TeachTruth display that is shared around the country to raise awareness about the age-appropriate, top quality, relevant books being censored.

"I feel heartbroken. Not just because I lost a job — but because I lost it for doing what librarians are supposed to do: create a space for everyone. I stood by our mission. I followed policy. I led with love." -- Lavonnia Moore, librarian with 15 years experience Defend #FreedomtoRead ⬇️

Whatever next year holds for you, you're going to be amazing! Encouragement via educator @juliaerin80.bsky.social #EduSky

If you haven't seen this yet, check it out! Good stuff from the highly celebrated and much loved Matthew Cherry! #BookSky #Edusky #Librarysky www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

"Alternative concepts of time that have emerged within the environmental humanities challenge the prevailing ethos that archives exist to preserve the past for humans of the future. When we consider those humans in the context of the climate crisis, we are faced with blunt uncertainty."

If you're on to a new chapter in your T journey, know that fellow educators like @juliaerin80.bsky.social‬ are cheering you on! #TeacherVoice

Happy Pride Month! 📚🌈🥳💕💫 Love wins!! And...let's read books written by and celebrate authors from the rainbow collective all year long. I'll periodically drop some of my faves this month in this thread. I'm posting a lot less because I'm writing a little more. More to come soon(ish)😂

Part 2 of the ISTE Expert Webinar series with me and Valerie Tagoe begins in just 30 min!🎊🥳📚🤓 If you're an ISTE affiliate member, come join us! #librarysky #edusky iste.org/learning-lib...

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This fall, Roadtrip Nation is sending three people on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to explore careers in libraries. Learn more about this opportunity, fueled by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social & Strada Education Foundation. ➡️ ilovelibraries.org/article/hit-... Applications are open through May 25, 2025.

Shameful. Devestating. I urge people who keep making excuses to look at this and stop letting others get away with looking away and carrying on with business as usual. Regardless of the title, she remains my Librarian in Chief. #Librarysky www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...

For you! #ELAteachersky #booksky #Edusky #librarysky www.slj.com/story/Findin...

🎉 Two lucky attendees will win a copy of SEASONS OF LITERACY by @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social & @juliaerin80.bsky.social! ✅ Register now! www.bookelicious.com/events/ 4-29-25 @ 7:30pm ET Pre-order! www.solutiontree.com/seasons-of-literacy.html #edusky #skybrarians

🎉 Two lucky attendees will win a copy of SEASONS OF LITERACY by @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social & @juliaerin80.bsky.social! ✅ Register now! www.bookelicious.com/events/ 4-29-25 @ 7:30pm ET Pre-order! www.solutiontree.com/seasons-of-literacy.html #edusky #skybrarians

today on the blog: Emely Rumble, LCSW " To me, bibliotherapy is a form of liberation. It’s a deeply relational, sacred practice that uses literature to support healing, support the development of self-understanding, and affirm one’s lived experience." pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/04/10/i...

🎊🎉🥳📚 Thank you for the support! Excited to work with the rest of the board toward equity and progress for teens in libraries!

🎉 FREE PD with @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social & @juliaerin80.bsky.social inspired by their newest resource for K-8 educators and librarians! 4-29-25 @ 7:30pm EST ✅ Register now! www.bookelicious.com/events/ Pre-order! www.solutiontree.com/seasons-of-literacy.html #edusky #skybrarians

My novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club and 9 more books are under review for a statewide ban in South Carolina. There will be a hearing tomorrow 3/13. I'm not optimistic that LNATTC will survive this challenge, but it's still possible. Context here: www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/3/...

We are devastated to see 20% of our beloved colleagues laid off by the same leadership who have yet to recognize our union. We demand that leadership at Sesame Workshop bargain with us over the terms of these massive layoffs. Consider letting them know that you expect the same.

So excited to share this educator guide around Culturally Responsive Teaching with Rom-Coms written by @juliaerin80.bsky.social! These eight romances and rom coms will engage your students hearts and minds! #EduSky Download the guide: penguinschoollibrary.com/RomComGuide

Loved working in this guide with @juliaerin80.bsky.social! If you teach middle or high school, def check this out.

📚 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

Iowa, you need to be getting on the phone to your state House reps to end this librarian criminalization bill. If you're in Des Moines or near, the meeting is TODAY in the House Education Committee, at 1 pm. Show. Up. legiscan.com/IA/bill/HF27...

Happy Birthday to our ancestor Toni Morrison! So many of us would be lost without language she gave us. This giant of a storyteller & wordsmith & thinker we were privileged to briefly share the earth with.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Today a young person I work with who happens to be in 6th grade shared with me that he, too has a fondness for Lagaan and it made my whole week. #IYKYK

Carla Hayden made history as the first Black Librarian of Congress! This Black History Month, we celebrate her work modernizing libraries and championing equitable access to knowledge. #BlackHistoryMonth #LibraryInnovation

"The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free." --Ta-Nehisi Coates #BHM

Teaching is one of the great loves of my life. Not because I like imparting knowledge to young people because...what do I know, really? I constantly stand corrected. But being able to be a young person's champion is really life giving. Happy VDay to those leading with love. #Edusky

This is not new news but it's becoming clearer every year. I guess nobody actually read 1984...or the Cliff's Notes or the Spark Notes.