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It's #BannedBooksWeek, and we're starting out with a rundown of action items everyone can take to fight censorship and support diverse banned books. Book bans and challenges have been at a historic high, and are only increasing. 🧵

Northside Library Goddess, Kathryn Cole shares excellent resources for Hispanic/LatinX Heritage Month. Check it out! smore.com/pakhw

Banned Books Week is here! ❌ This annual, national celebration of the freedom to read, is a big one for all of us here at Chapel Hill Public Library. Check out this big ol' thread to see how we're fighting censorship this #BannedBooksWeek. 🧵(1/8)

Starting now - come hear students talk about fighting for #FReadom! facebook.com/watch/live/?re…

Beautiful. And a testament to the power of choice, libraries and love. ❤️📚❤️ “Love was the key.” - Dav Pilkey H/T to @tori_mazur for sharing. Northside Library Julie Stivers. Say Gay. Say Trans. @ChrisTuttell Bailey Normann #CHCCSLibraries

Subject integration alert!📕🧪🧮🎨 Ms. Bailey and I are teaming up this week to teach our K students about colors + Hispanic Heritage Month. We read Green is a Chile Pepper and then sorted items in the book by color. Bailey Normann @retheridgeEES Ephesus Elementary Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

And absolutely adore the natural inquiry that abounds when we step outside and let the natural curiosity of children take root. It makes learning come alive in the most authentic ways. ❤️ Northside Elementary Northside Library

Many of you following along with #LizzoAtLOC were surprised that the Library has a flute vault. We are the largest Library in the world & home to more than 173 million objects, so there are many more surprises like that in our collections. Enjoy this thread of just a few of them.

Green is a Chile Pepper, part 2! 📕🧪🧮🎨 Ms. Bailey and I teamed up last week to teach our K students about colors + Hispanic Heritage Month. We read the book + sorted items in the book by color. Check out Ms. McCracken's class hard at work! Bailey Normann Ephesus Elementary Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

SEL + 📚 + Coding Ms. Bailey + I are collaborating this week to read Grumpy Monkey with our Ephesus Elementary kinders to learn more about emotions. After reading, they created basic dance "programs" based on movements from the book. Bailey Normann Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools @retheridgeEES

Happy #DigitalCitizenshipWeek! Bailey Normann + I are teaching every class to celebrate. 2nd is learning how to be responsible when using tech to be good digital citizens. Check out the rest of this thread to see what's happening in 3-5. Ephesus Elementary Common Sense Education Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Love taking authors around to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools !With Dr. Jamar J. Perry Ephesus Elementary celebrating his new book in the Cameron Battle series!!!

A huge congratulations to Julie Stivers. Say Gay. Say Trans.!! So incredibly deserved. I am still so bummed I didn’t get to intern with you, but you introduced me to Kathryn Cole and for that I will be eternally grateful. And I will always center your library program’s values as I build my own!

We love when our staff collaborates to create special learning opportunities for our students! Lots of important skills that can be applied beyond this project. @MsSaraCottrell Bailey Normann Kim Mellor Caroline Nisbet Sheila Singh Evan Burnette @alumsdenEES Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Kelvin loves learning new things! They decided to join Bailey Normann this morning while she was teaching @retheridgeEES's class about tree rings in our new outdoor classroom. Ephesus PTA Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools North Carolina Science Festival Duke Energy

Poet + EES parent, Aruna, shared her poetry w/ 5th graders + gave them advice on their own work! Their project connects to the book the group is reading with Ms. Smith called “Dragonwings” which highlights some Classical Chinese poems. Bailey Normann Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools #nationalpoetrymonth

Bailey Normann + @MsSaraCottrell took the Kinders on an iPad scavenger hunt during library specials last week. They looked for items with certain characteristics like color + texture as well as identifying 2D/3D shapes + living things. Gretchen Capps @retheridgeEES Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

"I pride myself on being honest with the young folks. And if I’m going to be honest with them, that means that some of those conversations are gonna be a little dicey." ow.ly/YfSA50OC8J9