So many layers to this amazing story - I cannot wait to share it with my students. ❤️📚Angeline Boulley - #FIREKEEPERSDAUGHTER

Who doesn’t love free stuff???

What a great day with Lindsay Currie! So many students inspired to read and write more now!!❤️📚

Lindsay Currie’s new book!!! Woohooo

Today, his final adventure, his last tale of survival, Gary Paulsen’s farewell to his readers, NORTHWIND, is published. Once again, I learn that a heart can be both broken and full. This is the saddest and proudest of days for me. “He had found joy…”

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8th graders have a lot to say about their writing lives when we stop and listen:)

Next session IL Reading Council #IRC2020 learning about new and multiple literacies with @storiestoldinsf Kristen Walsh

There is a lot of PD that focuses on curriculum. There is a lot of PD that focuses on how to use tools and platforms. Rarely is there PD that shows how you can run a student-centered, differentiated classroom using the tools and curriculum you have access to.

✨GIVEAWAY!✨It’s five months until Nothing More to Tell hits shelves, and I’m giving away a signed ARC. RT & follow to enter; winner will be chosen at noon ET on Friday, April 1. International ok!

Some mid-week fun: 5 Friends, 5 Hobbies: 1. Walking 2. Reading all the books 3. Writing 4. Traveling with family 5. Drinking good wine and craft beer (that’s a hobby, right?) spartanlynne Donna Kouri John Schu Kelly Mulhern Ms. Jennifer Keicher

Borders is an important read - understanding that Indigenous populations are still not being recognized for who they really are.

"The writing in a class can only be as good as the literature that supports, surrounds, and buoys it up." via @FletcherRalph #LIM2022 JudsonU Education Graduate Programs 📚✏️💛

Celebrated The Gift of Story with John Schu last night at Anderson's Bookshops “I’m not sure there is a better, more comforting balm for the heart than celebrating books and connecting through stories” (1).

Another powerful masterpiece by @kwamealexander

The last 2.5 years have been nothing I have ever experienced in my 30 year teaching career - and I never want to experience it again. I went into this year hopeful and I am loving my 8th graders. These are two emails that I received today after being with them for one week.

Great day for reading! We hosted author Lindsay Currie today to talk all things writing and celebrate her new book The Girl in White! Sourcebooks Kids

After our author visit with Lindsay Currie one of my students began writing a spooky story because Lindsay “inspired her.” Mentors and mentor texts matter! ❤️ Sourcebooks Kids

My Chicagoland friends - Join us for an exciting morning with Lindsay Currie! Lindsay Currie Register through Eventbrite at lindsaycurriewithfvrc.eventbrite.com