Educators have ZERO control over any of these. 🤔👇 Stop placing ALL the blame on teachers and schools.

It was such a wonderful experience meeting authors Grace Lin & Debbi Michiko Florence⁷ at The Treehouse Reading & Arts Center! We are so happy that your very Asian book trip took you to us! #literacy #reading #books #authors

Missing you…#poetry helps #this poem ❤️

Love these #friends

All it takes is one person to change the direction of someone’s future ❤️

#poetry #literature #writing #literacy #read #write #enjoy ✍️ ❤️📖

Whatever you do, please don't stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read books. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

There is no doubt that the #stamina kids had many moons ago surpasses stamina today. What ever happened to #grit? Too many distractions, not enough #self #control.

Introverts care a lot. But people don't see it. Just because they're not loud. They don’t chase attention. They don’t announce their kindness. They just show up quietly. Listening. Understanding. Caring from their heart. Their care is subtle. And people mistake it for

All facts.

Introverts are not rude, they avoid people who lower their vibe. They’re empaths. Highly sensitive. They notice even the little things most people miss. Shifts in mood, tone, energy. They can read people like a book. So when an introvert pulls back, it’s never random. They’ve

There’s a shortage! A vocabulary #awareness shortage and I’m hoping that we start to focus on the #foundational #skill of #learning #vocabulary because if we don’t, there will be a #knowledge shortage. #read more #talk more #teach more 📖📚📙📘📗📕

Need to try to carve out a little time for #poetry #writing I had to get this one out because I see this often-glam without #compassion.

“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.” — Mark Twain

People say, “I don’t need to read fiction.” You absolutely do. The world is currently being run by rich, antisocial, amoral men who have never opened a book, and you need only look around to see the damage it’s caused. Empathy & curiosity are vanishing because people don’t read.

Dear World, We're not with him. Sincerely, Decent Americans

If you haven’t taught in a classroom post-Covid, you don’t know what it is like to teach the modern student. The students have changed. Teaching has changed. You have to be in the classroom daily to understand what I mean.