Until this week I have been a lifelong Best Buy and Whirlpool USA customer. The experience this week to get a 9-month old washer serviced after it has quit working just may make me change my mind. Do better Best Buy and Whirlpool USA. 😡

When I think about scholars whose research powerfully influences K-12 practitioners, Dr. Carla España you are at the top of my list. 1/3

A joint statement from Hachette Book Group
HarperCollins Macmillan Publishers Simon & Schuster and Sourcebooks

✨𝔽𝕒𝕚𝕥𝕙 ℝ𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕘𝕠𝕝𝕕 ✨
The art community lost a legend this weekend.
Faith Ringgold was the OG Artivist.
Kid Lit legend.
Trailblazer for Black women artists.
Quilter of justice and dreams.

#SheCameToAmerica
#FaithRinggold

'Novels-in-verse are so powerful!' — Mae Respicio's #MG is out 4/9/24! mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/03/isabel…

I am honored to have written the educator’s guide for Mae Respicio's #MG is out 4/9/24!’s GORGEOUS novel-in-verse Isabel in Bloom. This work took on new importance yesterday with the birth of our own Isabelle, my 1st grandchild! THANK YOU to Mae and Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚! 🇵🇭❤️🇵🇭

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📚CALLING ALL TEACHERS!📚 I loved this insightful convo abt verse novels! If you’d like a copy of the ISABEL IN BLOOM educators guide, visit the Random House Children's Books School & Library site or email/DM me! It’s fun & SUPER accessible for ALL readers—w many doors into the book! 🙏📚🌸

Thank you for the fun chat John Schu! 🥰 More about ISABEL IN BLOOM on Mr. Schu’s blog! 🌸 #OutApril9

Happy book birthday Erin Entrada Kelly! ❤️❤️❤️
(Thank you Anne Ursu for the graphic!)

So grateful for friends who are helping to get the word out about my new book - Antiracist Reading Revolution: A Framework for Teaching Beyond
Representation Toward Liberation. It’s available for preordering now! Corwin Press

Join us!

Thank you William Woods Univ. for a wonderful college visit for our Jefferson Middle School AVID JMS! AVID

This just in! 😭 ISABEL IN BLOOM is nearly a month out! I'd be SO appreciative of your pre-orders, which truly give the message to gatekeepers (publishers, booksellers, etc.) that you want diverse, meaningful stories like this on shelves. Link below.🙏🌸 #IsabelInBloom #OutApril9

Give Kellogg's all the business, peeps. I just picked up 48 boxes of breakfast bars for my classroom with their #gotyourback grant program. Saved me almost $200 and keeps my kids fed. #gratefulteacher

Did you know I’ve got HUNDREDS of FREE activities available for download at the Activities page of my website? They’re carefully designed to (1) help kids build narrative skills and creative confidence and (2) be FUN! Use them for soft starts, early finishers, in lessons or more!

Do you need books? Do you know colleagues who need books? Do you know preservice teachers who need books? Do you want support with book clubs? Apply for a grant from penny kittle Book Love Foundation. Deadline is April 1, 2024. booklovefoundation.org

An April weekend for reaaders, writers, and thinkers..WRITE NOW conference in my town with ellin keene Anna G. Osborn 🇵🇭♥️ . & Georgia Heard will be incredible! Discounts for early registration. @booklove4life #writing #teacher #TEACHers
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