#PiedmontBirdCallingContest October 10, 2022, 7pm. Alan Harvey Theater at Piedmont High School. Tickets on sale soon. youtube.com/watch?v=ZUseQK…

#CSLA Two new positions for me with the California School Librarians Association: Northern Region President & Chairperson for the Intellectual Freedom Committee, Government Relations. I support your personal freedom to read what you choose as part of your First Amendment rights.

We should not be censoring Laurie Halse Anderson SPEAK or SHOUT because gender-based crimes affect 1 in 3 women! It's imperative we make these books available/accessible. Like my own, ECHOES OF GRACE, these books make safe places to discuss this social crisis and offer women resources!

WIN BOOKS FOR YOUR CLASSROOM LIBRARY! To enter: 1) Follow Mackin Classroom 2) RT this post 3) Comment which stack you want: Elementary, Middle, or High School Three lucky #educators will win one set of books. Contest will run until 04/18. #teachertwitter #edchat

High School: We Deserve Monuments The Weight of Our Sky Jane Anonymous Out of Character Our Crooked Hearts Snitchers Children of Blood and Bone

Judy Blume on Ron DeSantis: "A governor who wants to control everything, starting with what kids can think, what they can know, what they can question, what they can learn, and even what they can talk about." | Variety Power of Women presented by Lifetime

On National School Librarian Day, I'm grateful for librarians who create spaces and places that advocate for children and deliver joy and love through story.

No Stopping Us Now, a novel about Title IX issues, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe, is the READmont, one city one book, for Piedmont, California. We have copies at PHS Library for check out.

What's lost when libraries are defunded or closed by censors? Not just books! Libraries are community resources for job hunters, small businesses, and more. #TheresMoreToTheStory #UniteAgainstBookBans

If we don’t do the right thing for our teachers there won’t be any teachers left. I’ll be out tomorrow showing my support for Oakland educators. Let me know if you want to join or pitch in - I’m going to take snacks and water to a few picket lines.

serbia not going the thoughts and prayers route

Our library provides research help, good books, and advice to 780 high school students.

Crazy long lines at Safeway. Nursing mom's. Cranky kids. More checkout clerks needed now.

Launching Readmont, our One City, One Book program for Piedmont. Thanks to a generous grant from the PADC, Piedmont Diversity Committee.

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is a true story of one family affected by the intersection of the war on terror and Hurricane Katrina.

Back from Harvard Junior Parents Weekend. So proud of my son.

Join me in supporting High School Libraries in Tamalpais California saveschoollibrarians.org/thusd