Educator giveaway, round 2! 🍎📚 Each week, I'm giving 5 US educators a $100 gift card to one of my favorite indie bookstores. RT & follow for a chance to win! I'll notify the 5 random winners on 4/24 at 5 PM PT. This week: Little Shop, Once Upon A Time Bookstore, @FlyingPigBooks

DO NOT ever ever use "Quiz Assignment" in #googleClassroom. It does bad things. It puts extra code on your Google Form that makes it so you can't reuse it and other nasty things. Just use a regular Google Form in a Regular assignment. Click on cog to turn on quizzes. Boom.

Happy 220th birthday Library of Congress! Visiting the LOC and participating in the Summer Teacher Institute is still my favorite PD of all time & was an incredible experience. Looking forward to returning to visit in the future!

I was sharing stories about the 1918 influenza with my daughter today, and found this picture. Masks are now required in our town for anyone going out, and seeing this made her feel better somehow, "So this has happened before," she said.

Everywhere Book Fest everywherebookfest.com

School Administrators and the Power of School Librarians | Knowledge Quest knowledgequest.aasl.org/school-adminis…

I’m thrilled that I will be taking over the role as president of LISLA, and even more excited to be working alongside new VP @Librarydemaio15! I am grateful for the support & excited to represent our incredible profession.

It’s official! Michelle Robinson and I are now the dynamic duo that will be leading LISLA. I am so honored and proud to be working with one of the best school librarians I know to connect and support all Suffolk County school librarians!

Sure does! Not shown - sweatpants - giving the yoga pants a rest!

In this month’s post, I discuss the link between literacy & democracy and offer a booklist of current and forthcoming children’s & YA books about elections, voting rights, and US government.

Looks like a wonderful opportunity to collaborate and learn from some of the finest leaders! Mattituck Cutchogue UFSD @CeLiteracy @ce_library

Wednesday Wisdom from Barack Obama - "Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often." Visit your #schoollibrary and make reading a part of your school routine. #remotelearning #blendedlearning NYC School Librarians' Association

What a great leader - In fact, Ms. O’Neill is SSLMA’s Administrator of the Year! Melissa McBride (she/her/hers)

My new favorite space in the #jmslibrary, our virtual library classroom! Jericho MS #jerichoms eric sundberg Chad Gleason Donald Gately Ed.D. Kati Behr, Ed.D.

The Pernille Ripp is taking place this year from October 5 – November 13. LBYR School & Library and Pernille Ripp are teaming up to read “Stamped” by Jason Reynolds News and Ibram Dr İbrahim Fatih DOĞAN. They’ve teamed up with Hachette Books for a giveaway, too. Learn more at bit.ly/35ntscH.

Together let’s celebrate the voices of the mentor authors & illustrators behind the books! Hope this resource will provide more ways to inspire all readers, writers & thinkers! 📚♥️🎉 Psst... thrilled to share @jtbigelow will be my very first guest! Stenhouse Publishers

Just announced: married authors Nicola updates and David Yoon are launching a YA romance imprint starring heroes of color pwne.ws/3l6aQlU

Reminded of a core message from Evan Robb as we prepare our National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) presentation!