Friday was #BookCharacterDay at AES! I even found a friend dressed the same during the school-wide parade. 🤗📚 #AESReads

What's happening in the library? Students worked together to complete a digital scavenger hunt with the library catalog. Using our SOAR expectations, we're taking ownership and responsibility for finding materials independently. #AESReads

What's happening in the library? We're taking time to pause, read, and explore the reading app SORA for audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines. We practiced logging minutes on @beanstack.bsky.social for the FCS 10 Million Minutes Reading Challenge. #AESReads

AES Family Book Fair Night starts at 3PM until 5PM today. Find your next great read today and support your school library. #AESReads

Truck with Scholastic Book Fairs posted on the side

Super excited to host another Scholastic book fair - the kids are eager for the latest titles in their favorite series. Tomorrow night is the Family Book Fair Night! 🥳📚 #AESReads

Love the stickers!

😆 These photos are from when I first opened the package. Wishing you a wonderful school year!

What do empathy and creativity have to do with #AI? While many people picture #TechCareers as being all about having the right technical skills, the reality of modern #technology work is far more human-centered than ever before.

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Page with tips related to data as an advocacy tool and transitioning into a new librarian position

Summer sure went by quickly this year! 😂 Thanks @lieberrian.bsky.social and @demcoinc.bsky.social for another opportunity to share tips with #schoollibrarians this year. I can't wait to learn from others as well!

ALA Youth Media Awards 2025 Winners. American Library Association

Congratulations to all the honorees of this year’s Youth Media Awards!
Thank you to ALA members & library professionals everywhere who pour their passion, time & dedication into finding the very best books & media for their communities. Your work matters.📚
#ALAYMA
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Thank you SO much! We really enjoyed the chat and writing activity.

Help fight against book bans by signing the petition at http://www.bookbanpetition.us

Thank you @bookelicious.bsky.social for a wonderful author visit today with @katemessner.com and @rajanilarocca.bsky.social! Third graders loved creating their own characters and are eager to read more in the series. #AESReads

Our 6th international Edcamp Cardigan Camp virtual library conference begins at midnight on January 25. Enjoy 24 hours of sessions from AI to author visits to advocacy. There is still time to register at sites.google.com/view/edcamp-... Links will be emailed only to registrants later this week.

Starting your journey as a school librarian? This power-packed webinar recording will give you the essential tools and strategies to hit the ground running. In this We’ll help you organize your space, connect with your school community, and foster a love for reading. youtube.com/watch?v=oNqB...

3 Strategies for Enhancing Nonfiction in an Elementary School Library by Laura Beals D'Elia
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I'm curious to know more about this class... is this part of a program? Congrats on finishing! 👏🏼

Happy #CSEdWeek! K-2 will learn more about coding and try #HourOfCode activities. What are you doing this week? #TLSky #EduSky

This image announces that the call for proposals for the AASL 2025 Conference in Saint Louis, taking place October 16–18, 2025, is now open. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2025.

The call for proposals is open for #AASL25! Share your passion for our profession with your fellow school librarians. Submit your proposal here: national.aasl.org Deadline is March 1, 2025

Aww love it! Thankful for you and your leadership in DCPS.

Everyone belongs. “There are unhoused people, mentally ill people, library kids, library teens, grandparents, autistic people, neurodivergent people who all use a library, and it belongs to all of them.” - Mychal Threets
#ReasonstoLoveLibraries

#SLJSummit
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So great to see @mrschureads.bsky.social at #SLJSummit Thank you for sharing your story and ❤️! Hope you have opportunity to rest your voice.

The #SLJSummit24 was a welcome retreat to meet & mingle w/ other school librarians, publishers, authors, & advocates. But mostly I gotta support the newly published author, Christopher Stewart! 🥳 A one-of-a-kind human and I'm so fortunate to call him a friend & my "library brother". 😂📚✊🏼 #TLSky

I'm exploring Raleigh a bit before #SLJSummit24. Can't beat free at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences!

I'll be there as well! Looking forward to meeting people IRL. 🤗 #TLSky #EduSky

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Teachers & librarians! Want an author to Zoom into your classroom for World Read Aloud Day February 5th? I'll be sending out this year's list of author/illustrator volunteers in my email newsletter next week! If you'd like access, sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Nice article: The importance of school libraries and qualified librarians in fostering a love of reading among teenagers... www.chronicle.gi/the-importan...

Book cover THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES shows a surly 7th grade boy with a backpack and FDNY baseball hat standing on top of a mountain, looking into the distance. A drooly Bernese Mountain Dog looks up at him adoringly.

Time for a book giveaway!

If you'd like me to mail you an advance copy of my Apr. '25 MG novel in verse THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES, follow & share this post. Bonus entry if you also reply w/ a pic from a recent hike!

I'll draw winners on 12/1.

About the book:
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To all my school librarian friends, I figured out how to make a starter pack of librarians to follow on BlueSky. Follow it and the #TLSky hashtag. go.bsky.app/JPeAYQG