Missing [all] my [former] students something fierce lately 🫶🏻 It’s a different kind nostalgia to be so far away / not be able to relish & keep up those relationships in person 💜👩🏻‍🏫

I cannot emphasize how truly and wildly wondrous it is to work with teenagers 180+ days a year 🙃👩🏻‍🏫💜 And I wouldn’t trade these moments for the world.

The nerve of some books. Being so good and whatnot.

Look who’s THREE!!?? 💜🐾🥳 HBD Violet, my best pandemic pupper! 🥰

#ATEjax2023 Loved being a first-time attendee and presenter! Baylor School of Ed ATE

Woohoooo!! 🥳 Headed to #NCTE23 this fall and so so excited to connect with all my favorite literacy folks (and meet new people too)! 👩🏻‍🏫📚🎉

Celebrating the BVHS 2023 Seniors’ last day of school with a Friday survey for *everyone*!!! 👩🏻‍🏫💜🎉 forms.gle/EU3no2AWqJdZgM…

NCTE has partnered with School Library Journal on new articles in the Refreshing the Canon series. Members of NCTE’s Build Your Stack® Committee selected two nonfiction titles & two or more multimodal pairings for six texts on summer reading lists: slj.com/story/classroo….

This #BannedBooksWeek, make plans to join “A Conversation about Intellectual Freedom with NCTE Affiliates for Banned Books Week” on Monday, October 2, at 7:00 p.m. ET. Learn more and register at: ncte.org/events/if-affi….

#BannedBooksWeek is finally here! This year’s theme is “Let Freedom Read!” To kick off the week, read NCTE’s position statement “The Students’ Right to Read”: ncte.org/statement/righ….

What happens when young people actually read “disturbing” books? Worthy read. Thanks, Donna Santman. tcpress.com/blog/young-peo….

#DisruptTexts received the Hero Award last night at #NCTE23. Find me at @triciaebarvia on all the other apps and I accepted it on behalf of the crew. #DisruptTexts is not just the 4 of us. It is all of you who continue to disrupt the narrative that our lives don’t matter in ELA. 💕

“Why is the freedom to read important to you?” National teen writing contest from NY Public Library Deadline: December 22 on.nypl.org/414Vnca

Are you teaching an ELA methods class in the winter or spring of 2024? If so, join ELATE for “Share Your ELA Methods Syllabus Party” TOMORROW, December 8, at 3:00 p.m. ET. ncte.org/share-your-ela…

Yes, yes, and yes!!