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The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. His writing inspires me at a spiritual level, but also challenges creative thinking that I think everyone can relate to.

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Jonathan Rosen

Sky Pony Press

3-5 or 6-8

10-1 EST

Houseofrosen@aol.com
Random House/Doubleday and LB & Co After 9am PST, before 2pm PST devpettybooks@gmail.com Beth McMullen beth@bethmcmullenbooks.com
Corabel Shofner

FS&G

5,6,7,8

Flexible

Eventsforcorabel@gmail.com

Lisa Schmid

North Star Editions/Jolly Fish Press

9-12

PST

lisa.schmid@sbcglobal.net
suzanne kaufman random house suzanne_kaufman@hotmail.com
Irene Latham

Penguin Random House

3-5

8 - 3 CST

irene@irenelatham.com

irene@irenelatham.com

Robin Yardi

Lerner Publishing, Arbordale Publishing

K-2, 3-5

6:00 AM Pacific - 2:30 PM Pacific

robinyardi (at) mac (dot) com

Chana Stiefel

NatGeoKids, Feiwel & Friends, HMH

All of the above

Morning (Eastern)

stiefelchana@gmail.com
Dusti Bowling Sterling Children's Books dustibowlingbooks@gmail.com Gail D. Villanueva Scholastic Press Morning EST if possible please gaildvillanueva@gmail.com
Fran Wilde

Abrams

6-8

10am-4pm EST

fran.wilde@gmail.com

Lori Degman

Sterling Publishing

K-2

8:00am - 5:00pm CST

Lori@Loridegman.com

Jennie K. Brown

Tantrum Books Imprint of Month9Books

3-5

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EST

jenniekaybrown@gmail.com

Beth Vrabel

Running Press

6-8

8 am to 3 pm cst
Http://www.bethvrabel.com
Bethannvrabel@gmail.com

Tina Powell

Peanut Butter Press & BWL Publishing

K-2

9 am to 3 pm ET

tina@tinapowell.com

Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Cinco Puntos Press, Charlesbridge, Lee and Low

All

9-12 central
www.claudiaguadalupemartinez.com
cmartinez50@hotmail.com

Lindsay Moore

Greenwillow Books

K-3

9 AM, 10 AM, 11 AM EST

lindsay.koza.moore@gmail.com
Simon & Schuster 8 am to 3 pm EST skalibooks@gmail.com Michelle Cusolito Charlesbridge 9am EASTERN to 4pm EASTERN (with periodic breaks)bookings@michellecusolito.com Albert Whitman, Running Press Kids, Sky Pony Press 9am - 2pm EST Sarah Grace Tuttle Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, The Creative Company EST 11 AM - 3 PM
J. Anderson Coats

Harcourt Children's, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Candlewick (forthcoming)

3-5, 6-8, 9-12

9:00 am - 3:00 pm PST

jandersoncoats@gmail.com

Christian McKay Heidicker

Holt Macmillan and Simon & Schuster

9-12

Any!

cmheidicker@gmail.com

Linda Joy Singleton

Albert Whitman and Little Bee

3-5 (can do other ages)

In Pacific Tie Zone - flexible on time
Www.LindaJoySingleton.com
Ljscheer@yahoo.com
Barbara Lowell Penguin Young Readers CST any time during the school day in any time zone balowell22@aol.com
Krista Van Dolzer

Putnam, Sourcebooks, Capstone, Bloomsbury

3-5, 6-8

10a-noon MT, 1p-3p MT
www.kristavandolzer.blogspot.com
kvandolzer@gmail.com

Danielle Davis

Capstone

3-5

10am - 4pm PST
http://www.danielledavisreadsandwrites.com
danielledaviswrites@me.com
Elly MacKay Tundra, Running Press, HMH, Owlkids, Orca Ellymackay@gmail.com Ellymackay@gmail.com
Samantha Cotterill

Little brown books, Simon and Schuster , Harper Collins

K-2, 3-5, 6-8

Between 9:30-1pm EST

Samcott@hotmail.com

Sandy Stark-McGinnis

Bloomsbury

9-12 Pacific Time-I am a teacher, so I only could a talk during my lunch (12:00-12:45).
sandystarkmcginnis.com
starksandy@hotmail.com

Lori Goldstein

Razorbill

9-12

EST
www.lorigoldsteinbooks.com
lori@lorigoldsteinbooks.com

Jane Kurtz

Beach Lane

k-2

8-12 Pacific

jane@janekurtz.com
Lauren Eldridge Little Brown; Viking 8:15am-2pm CST Laurenleldridge@gmail.com Rebecca J. Gomez 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Central)Rebgowriter@gmail.com
Veronica Bartles

Balzer + Bray (Harper Collins)

K-2, 3-5

7am-3pm eastern time

vbartleswrites@vbartles.com
Buffy Silverman Lerner Publications 10:30-12:00, T-Th buffy@buffysilverman.com Elana K Arnold Harper Collins 8-9:30 am pacific time elana@elanakarnold.com
Fran Manushkin

Capstone

K-2

12:00 noon-2:00 EST

franm@nyc.rr.com

Keely Hutton

FSG Macmillan

7-12

EST 8AM-4PM

khutton1@rochester.rr.com

Sarah Darer Littman

Scholastic, S & S

3-5, 6-8, 9-12

EST 8am-12pm 1pm-6pm
http://sarahdarerlittman.com
sarahdarerlittman@gmail.com
Angela DiTerlizzi Simon and Schuster 10:00am -1:00pm EST angela@diterlizzi.com
Michael Salinger and Sara Holbrook

Scholastic, Boyd's Mills, Red Giant

K-12 just give us a heads up

9am-12pm EST

salinger@ameritech.net

Cynthia Platt

Amicus Ink

K-2

8:30 a.m. - 1:30 a.m. ET
cynthiaplattbooks.com
cynthiaplatt@icloud.com
Jennifer Thermes Abrams Books for Young Readers 10am-3pm EST. *Please note, I will be unavailable for WRAD on Feb 1, but would love to skype with your class on Wednesday, Feb. 6th! jennifer@jenniferthermes.com
Jeri Watts

Candlewick

K-2; 3-5

9-3 Eastern time zone

Skype in the classroom

watts.jh@lynchburg.edu

Terri Farley

HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin, Simon &Schuster

9-12

Any (i am in Pacific)

Farleyterri@aol.com

Hillary Homzie

Charlesbridge, Simon & Schuster, Sky Pony

k-2, 3-5, 6-8

Anytime from 7:30 a.m. PST through 2:00 p.m.PST

hillary@hillaryhomzie.com

Patricia Bailey

Albert Whitman and Company

3-5, 6-8

9:00-3:00 Pacific
www.patriciabaileyauthor.com
patriciabaileyauthor@gmail.com
Elizabeth Bender Bloomsbury 10 -12 EST and 1-3 EST edbakerbooks@gmail.com
Melanie Sumrow

Yellow Jacket/little bee books

6-8

9:00am-11:00am CST

melanie@melaniesumrow.com

Christy Mihaly

Holiday House (and Lerner)

K-2

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern

christy@mihaly.org
Jean Alicia Elster Wayne State University Press 9a - 2p Eastern author@jeanaliciaelster.com
Susan Ross

Holiday House

3-5, 6-8

Flexible

AuthorSusanRoss@gmail.com
Rebecca E. Hirsch Lerner/Millbrook 1 to 3:30 pm Eastern time rebeccahirsch@mac.com
Betsy Devany

Henry Holt and Co.

K-2

10 -5 EST

betsydevany@comcast.net
Mae Respicio Random House mae@maerespicio.com
Jackie Yeager

Amberjack Publishing

3-5

10:00am- 3:00pm EST

jacquelineyeager5@gmail.com

Marie Miranda Cruz

Starscape, Tom Doherty Associates

9-12

6-8 am PST

everlastingnora2018@gmail.com
Shauna LaVoy Reynolds Dial / Penguin I'm in central time and available between 9-11 AM, 12-2 PM, and 4-6 PM shaunalreynolds@gmail.com
Christina Collins

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Ages 8 and up

10:00 am - 12:15 pm EST
www.christinacollinsbooks.com
christinacollinsbooks@gmail.com

Victoria piontek

Scholastic

3-5

10:00 PST-2:00 PST

victoriapiontek@gmail.com

vpiontek@gmail.com
Brigit Young Macmillan (Roaring Brook)9:30am - 1:00pm EST brigityoungmg@gmail.com
Melissa Stoller

Clear Fork Publishing

K-2 and 3rd grade

9-4 EST
www.MelissaStoller.com
MLStoller@aol.com

Rebecca Caprara

Carolrhoda Books/Lerner

3-5 & 6-8

9:30am-12:30pm EST
https://www.rebeccacaprara.com
Caprarabooks@gmail.com

Christina June

Blink/HarperCollins

6-8 or 9-12

9-11:30 EST, 1-3:30 EST

christinajuneya@gmail.com

Sue Lowell Gallion

Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster, Sleeping Bear Books

K-2

9-11 and 1-3 Central Time Zone

suegallion@gmail.com

suegallion@gmail.com

JODI KENDALL

HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN'S BOOKS

3-5, 6-8

11-1PM EST
http://www.jodikendall.com/connect/Chronicle and Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins K-2 or 3-5 or 6-8 Mountain Time ktomsic@gmail.com
A. B. Greenfield

Holiday House

3-5

9:00-10:30 EST
http://www.amybutlergreenfield.com
amy@amybutlergreenfield.com

Merrill Wyatt

JIMMY Patterson Publishing

3-7

Between 10:45 and 12:45 or after 3:30 EST

Rimerllwyatt@gmail.com

Jennifer Kam

Charlesbridge

6-8 or 9-12

8AM-1:30PM EST
www.jenniferwolfkam.com Jrwkam@aol.com Laura Shovan Random House Children's Books laurashovan@gmail.com
Stephanie Robinson

Random House/Delacorte Press

3-5

8:30-3:30 EST
https://www.fairdaysfiles.com/
robinsonstef@yahoo.com

Diane Zahler

HarperCollins, Capstone, Boyds Mills

3-5

12-3 EST

dlzahler@gmail.com

Wendy McLeod MacKnight

Greenwillow Books

6-8

any time between 9 a.m. to 5 pm AST
wendymcleodmacknight.com
wendy@wendymcleodmacknight.com

Joy McCullough

Dutton/Penguin Random House

9-12

any time after 8 am PST

joymariemc@gmail.com
Karuna Riazi Simon and Schuster/Salaam Reads 9 AM - 1 PM, 2:30 PM - 8 PM (all EST)karunariazi@gmail.com
Brooks Benjamin

Random House Children's Books

3-5, 6-8

8:00 am - 4:00 pm (EST)
www.brooksbenjamin.com
cbrooks.benjamin@gmail.com

Jill Diamond

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

3-5

9:30-3:00 PST
www.jilldiamondbooks.com
jilldiamond78@gmail.com

Kris Waldherr

Scholadtic

6-8

9-11am

artandwords@optonline.net

Karen Leggett Abouraya

Lee & Low

3-5

Any school hours (I am in Eastern Time Zone)
handsaroundthelibrary.com
Karen@handsaroundthelibrary.com

Mark Maciejewski

Simon & Schuster

3-6

8-3 pacific

magicjetski@yahoo.com

Mike Mullin

Tanglewood Press

9-12

9 - 3 EST

mike@mikemullinauthor.com
Monica Carnesi Nancy Paulsen Books 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST monicacarnesi@mac.com Little Brown 9am-1pm AZ time molly@idleillustration.com
Bridget Hodder

Macmillan

3-7

9:30-3:30 EST
http://www.bridgethodder.com/contact-bridget-hodder/
Rebecca Ansari

Walden Pond Press (Harper)

9-12

8:30-3:30 CST

Rebeccaansariauthor@gmail.com

Jess Redman

FSG/Macmillan

9-12

9-12 EST; 1-3 EST

JessRedmanWrites@gmail.com

Hallee Adelman

Albert Whitman

K-2 or 3-5

10-2pm est

www.myquietship.com ; www.halleeadelman.com

Hallee@adelmans.net

Shauna Holyoak

Disney-Hyperion

9-12

noon to three EST
https://shaunaholyoak.wordpress.com/
s.holyoak@yahoo.com

Anica Mrose Rissi

S&S, Disney-Hyperion, and HarperTeen

K-2, 3-5, and 9-12 (picture books, chapter books, and YA)

10am to 6pm, Eastern Time
http://www.anicarissi.com
anicamroserissi@gmail.com
Mara Rockliff Candlewick, HMH, Chronicle, etc. mararockliff@mararockliff.com
Augusta Scattergood

Scholastic Press

9-12

10-3 EST
https://www.augustascattergood.com/
gsgood2@gmail.com

Sarah McGuire

Carolrhoda

6-8

anytime after 1pm EST
sarahmcguirebooks.com
smcguire.author@gmail.com

Jonathan Rosen

Sky Pony Press

9-12

EST 10-2

Houseofrosen@aol.com

Judy Lindquist

Florida Historical Society Press

9-12

Flexible

Linkyjr59@gmail.con

Stefani Deoul

Bywater Books

9-12

EST - Flexible

author@stefanideoul.com
Shelly Becker Sterling Publishing Midday (Eastern)shellybecker@gmail.com
Jenipher Lyn

Crown / Penguin Random House branch

middle grade / tween age

Eastern, open availability.

Jenipherlyn@gmail.com
Melanie Conklin 9am EST to 2pm EST melanie@melanieconklin.com
Emma Otheguy

Lee & Low Books, Bloomsbury, Knopf

3-5, 6-8

8am-6pm EST
https://app.youcanbook.me/#/editProfile?id=f935b5f2-e2ac-43ff-bccb-3da8ced4d04d&section=availability
Miriam Spitzer Franklin

Skypony Press

3-5, 6-8

EST 1-3 PM
www.miriamspitzerfranklin.com
mspitzerfranklin@gmail.com

Angela Cerrito

Holiday House

9-12

EST Noon - 4PM

writerangela@outlook.com

Danette Haworth

Bloomsbury Walker

3-5

10:00 am-2:00 pm EST
www.danettehaworth.com
dhaworthbooks@yahoo.com

Doreen Spicer-Dannelly

Random House Books for Children

9-12

9 AM PST
www.spicerackproductionsinc.com
doreen@spicerackproductionsinc.com
Laurie Wallmark Sterling Publishing Jennifer Brown Bloomsbury (MG); Little, Brown (YA); Katherine Tegen (YA)JenniferBrownYA@gmail.com
E.D. Baker

Bloomsbury

6-8 & 8-12

10 am EST - 3pm EST
www.talesofedbaker.com
edbakerbooks@gmail.com
Jacob Sager Weinstein Random House/Clarion K-2 (for my picture book) and 6-8 (for my MG novels)jswwrites@yankeefog.com
Patricia Sutton

Chicago Review Press

6-8

9-noon Central Time
Www.patriciasutton.com
Patriciakaysutton@gmail.com

David A. Kelly

Random House Children's

Grades 2 - 4

10 am - 6 pm (eastern)
www.davidakellybooks.com
Jodi Wheeler-Toppen

National Geographic Kids; Charlesbridge

K-2, 3-5, 6-8

10-2 EST
http://OnceUponAScienceBook.com
wheelertop@gmail.com
Mari Mancusi Disney Hyperion mari@marimancusi.com
Malayna Evans

Month9Books

MG (5-6_

9a-2p CST

malaynaevans22@gmail.com
Corey Ann Haydu HarperCollins 10 am EST- 4pm EST coreyannhaydu@gmail.com
Shannon Hitchcock

Scholastic

9-12

10:00-2:00 EST

ShannonH@ShannonHitchcock.com

Tracy Marchini

Creative Editions

K-2

9am - 5pm EST
http://tracymarchini.com/contact-faqs/
Gail Hedrick

Tumblehome Learning

6-8

8-12and 1-3 EST

gailehedrick@yahoo.com

Susan Tan

Roaring Brook

3-5 (But I also frequently skype with K-2, and would be happy to do that too!)

All day EST

susanshaumingtan@gmail.com

Holly Thompson

Random House, Clarion, Henry Holt, Lee&Low

K-12

I'm in Japan so between Tokyo time 6 am to 11 pm is fine!

hatbooks@gmail.com

Stacie Ramey

Sourcebooks

9-12

after 1:00 PM EST

stacieramey@gmail.com
Maria Gianferrari HMH; Roaring Brook; Aladdin; Boyds Mills Press 10 - 12 EST 1-4 EST contact form Sheetal Sheth Bharat Babies 9:30am- 2pm EST sheetal@sheetalsheth.com
Anna Raff

Candlewick

K-2

9 AM to 3 PM EST

anna@annaraff.com

HarperCollins/Greenwillow

Jody Feldman

HarperCollins/Greenwillow

3-7

8:30 - 4:00 CST
jody@jodyfeldman.com
Darlene Beck Jacobson

Creston

9-12

9-11AM EST 1-3PM EST
http://www.darlenebeckjacobson.com
djac2185@verizon.net

Denis Markell

Delacorte Press

4-8

9am-4pm EST
https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Denis+Markell
dmarkell@aol.com
Jane Kelley Random House Children's Books, Feiwel and Friends 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. CTS janekelley@janekelleybooks.com
Megan Wagner Lloyd

Knopf/Random House

K-2 only

10 AM to 2 PM EST
www.meganwagnerlloyd.com
meg@meganwagnerlloyd.com

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books

K-2

MST 9:30am - 3:30pm
http://dancingelephantstudio.com/visualart/
coloredsock@mac.com

Evelyn Bookless

Marshall Cavendish

4-5 and 6-8

9am - noon
www.evelynbookless.com
evelynbookless@yahoo.co.uk

S.A. Larsen

Leap Books & Ellysian Press

3-5, 6-8, 9-12

8:00 AM - 1:00 AM EST
https://www.salarsenbooks.com/
sheri@salarsenbooks.com

Justin LaRocca Hansen

Dial Books for Young Readers, Sky Pony Press

K-2, 3-5

8am-3pm EST
http://www.justinlaroccahansen.com
j.larocca.hansen@gmail.com
April Jones Prince Scholastic, Macmillan, Houghton Mifflin, Penguin Random House, Abrams april@apriljonesprince.com
Annette Bay Pimentel

Nancy Paulsen Books, Charlesbridge, Amicus

K-2, 3-5

Pacific Time Zone 5 AM-3 PM
http://www.annettebaypimentel.com/
annettepimentel@gmail.com

Susan Lubner

Running Press Kids/Hachette

9-12

9am - 3pm eastern

Suelubner@gmail.com

Michell Schaub

Charlesbridge

k-2, 3-5

8-3 central time
http://www.michelleschaub.com
shellschaub@hotmail.com

Ella Schwartz

Bloomsbury, National Geographic Kids

9-12

10:30-2:00

ella@ellaschwartz.net

Lisa Kahn Schnell

Charlesbridge

K-2, 3-5

8am-3pm EST, but other times may be possible

lisakschnell@yahoo.com

Meera Sriram

Penny Candy Books

6-8

9am-12 noon PST

meeratsriram@gmail.com

Maria Padian

Knopf Young Readers; Algonquin YR

ANY age group. I write YA but read everything!

9 A.M. - 3 P.M.

mpadian@comcast.net

Tom Hirschfeld

Penguin Random House

6-8

1-4 ET
www.itsuptoyoubooks.com
tom@hirschfeld.nyc

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For Immediate Release
Wed, 02/04/2015

CHICAGO - Written by experts on the subject and addressed to teen book buyers, " Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens," identifies titles that address the sensitive and important topics of coming out, being out and the search for community. Spotlighting the best gay, lesbian, bi, transgender and questioning books written for teens, Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins cover fiction of all kinds, as well as graphic novels and general nonfiction aimed at readers in middle school and high school, and include recent publications as well as classics that continue to be read and enjoyed by 21st-century teens. Information on how to find library programs, services and additional resources for LGBTQ teens is also provided, making this a one-stop sourcebook for LGBTQ teens, their families, friends and classmates, as well as teachers and librarians. The book is published by Huron Street Press, a trade publishing imprint of the American Library Association available through Independent Publishers Group as well as numerous traditional retail outlets in both print and e-book editions.

A columnist and reviewer for Booklist magazine, Cart is the author or editor of numerous books, including "The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004," which he co-authored with Jenkins. A past president of both YALSA and ALAN, he is the recipient of the 2000 Grolier Award and first recipient of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Achievement Award. He previously taught young adult literature at UCLA.

Jenkins is associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recipient of several teaching awards, she has a decade of experience as a school librarian/media specialist. She has published many articles on historical and contemporary children's and young adult literature and librarianship; intellectual freedom for youth; and online education.

In line with ALA's mission to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all, Huron Street Press, a publishing imprint of the American Library Association, harnesses the expertise of the Association and encourages library use among the public. Huron Street Press is administered through ALA Editions, which publishes resources used worldwide by tens of thousands of library and information professionals to improve programs, build on best practices, develop leadership, and for personal professional development. ALA authors and developers are leaders in their fields, and their content is published in a growing range of print and electronic formats. Contact ALA Editions at (800) 545-2433 ext. 5052 or editionsmarketing@ala.org.

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My one good thing with students has been live virtual classes: reading a story every time (K-4)...especially silly, fun stories.  My one good thing with teachers has been curating choice boards with mini lessons and ebooks that connect directly to the Social Studies and Science standards in their curriculums.  My one good thing with other librarians in my district has been meeting weekly with them virtually and the amazing collaboration that we have done together.  We are a much stronger team then we were before.  And my one good thing to other librarians outside my district has been starting an instagram account to share the awesome work that my library colleagues and I have been doing in remote learning.  https://www.instagram.com/mrsnewmanslibrary/

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This resource guide was created in direct response to the multiple requests made by educators, parents and students. Like Marley Dias, so many of you have asked for books with black girls as the main characters. And because of you, we have received thousands of books. Here we are sharing with you the first 700 book titles. We have not yet catalogued all the books. As a small organization with only two full-time staff, our resources are limited. Beginning in April, each month we will provide you with updates of new book titles.

This resource includes words of welcome from Marley Dias, Creator of the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign. It also includes comments from Dr. Lauren Wells, Chief Education Officer, City of Newark who offers us tips on how we can foster and promote reading and literacy among our children.

As the President and Co-Founder of GrassROOTS Community Foundation, I have added a few words and call to action to the guide. My charge to parents and caregivers is a simple one: listen to your children, encourage them as well as promote their reading and literacy skills. Reading is a pathway to freedom and liberty. As caregivers it is our responsibility to develop the imagination of children so that they can dream, create and structure opportunities for freedom and equity.

We have reviewed the titles and descriptions of books to ensure that they fit the criterion of having a black girl as the main characters. We have also catalogued the books by reading level. This time-consuming task would not be possible without your financial donation to hire some interim part-time staff. We could not do it without all of you who donated, our volunteers and the librarians from West Orange Public Library.

Each month we will update the list and continue to serve as an information repository for Black Girl Books.

If you know of a black girl book, not listed here, please send us a copy so we can add it to our collection. We would like to see this list grow. Our address is:

GrassROOTS Community Foundation
59 Main Street
Suite 323
West Orange, NJ 07052

Financial donations are always welcomed. All donations are tax-deductible.

Thank you.

Welcome to the #1000blackgirlbooks Resource Guide. I started this campaign because I wanted to read more books where black girls are the main characters. With your help we have collected over 11,000 books; many of them are have the same title, but we do have lots of unique ones as well. This guide includes 1000 of those books and more is coming.

Love,

Marley Dias
Founder
#1000BlackGirlBooks

Sadly, in today's society we often lack the imagination to deal with some of the most deeply rooted social issues. Family and work obligations as well as our biases can stunt our imaginations; however, as adults it is our charge to foster the imagination of our youth. Marley Dias has an active sociological imagination. She imagined a world where black girls are the main, not minor, characters in children's books. She thought she was dealing with a personal matter, but she quickly learned from the outpouring response from the public that her personal problem is in fact an engrained social issue. Children's literature in the United States and abroad is homogeneous and exclusionary. Black girls are underrepresented and in many cases missing. Girls of color are almost completely absent relative to the majority culture.

As caregivers of children we must nurture our children's imaginations and equip them with the resources so they can be emboldened to act. The GrassROOTS Community Foundation through Super Camp enhances girls' sociological imagination and teaches them confidence grounded in the knowledge of history and self-hood so that they feel confident enough to feel like they can create change in their communities. Each year GrassROOTS encourages girls to develop a social action project. We choose the words social and action carefully. We want our children to understand themselves as social actors, connected to the world. In addition, we teach our girls that to achieve justice they must ACT. The #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign is Marley's 2015 social action project. As Marley's mom and the President of GrassROOTS Community Foundation, I have learned first hand what can happen when we foster and promote children's love of reading, educate them about their community, and their desire to create social change as well as fan the flames of their sociological imaginations.

Dr. Janice Johnson Dias
President & Co-Founder
GrassROOTS Community Foundation
#investingirls

A love of reading is the most important legacy we can offer to our children and our students. Reading opens windows to new ideas, peoples, places, and experiences. Reading also provides mirrors for students to see themselves and their lives reflected in the characters they meet in books. Reading builds vocabulary and background knowledge, empowering children with the tools needed to express themselves and think about the world around them. Nurturing joyful reading in children primes their brains for lifelong learning and develops important social emotional skills like stamina, reflection, and empathy. As we build readers, we must make reading pleasurable and help children understand that reading is a skill that builds over time.

Here are a few tips for parents and educators to create environments that invite children to confidently embrace and fall in love with stories and books.

Tips for parents:

Model reading. Read, read, read to your child, with your child, or in front your child every day.

Immerse your child in books. Transform your entire home into a reading zone by placing books in every room.

Affirm your child's culture, language, and race by choosing books and stories with characters, places, and experiences that reflect their background.

Awaken your child to new ideas, places, people, or experiences in books and stories by asking them questions and always answering the question they have.

Empower your child by allowing them to choose books to read, whether based on what interests them or on book covers and titles.

Arm your child by always leaving home with books. When your child gets older ask them if they have a book before leaving for school, the doctor, or a long ride.

Cultivate your child's use of language and words. Talk with your child about what is happening in their lives and the world around them.

Build your child's ability to make connections. When you watch television or movies, make connections to characters or ideas in books you have read together.

Expand your child's reading beyond fiction. Children have great curiosity about events taking place in the world, plants, animals, and people. It's never too early to expose them to historical fiction or non-fiction books.

Advocate for curricula, partnerships, books, and resources for classrooms and schools that are culturally relevant and responsive.

Tips for educators:

Model reading. Read, read, read to your students, with your students, or in front your students every day.

Immerse school culture in talk about books. Book talks over the intercom, book clubs, social media chats, and school-wide read alouds are a few ways to do this.

Affirm your students' culture, language, and race by integrating books and stories with characters, places, and experiences that reflect their backgrounds into the curriculum.

Awaken students as participants in their own learning by having them create reading goals for themselves, for example, minutes of reading, chapters read, and reading new genres.

Empower students by allowing them to choose books based on what interests them or on book covers and titles.

Arm your students with the power of their own language and stories by providing them with multiple ways to make personal connections to the texts they read.

Cultivate independent reading by creating comfortable reading spaces throughout schools. Classrooms, cafeterias, libraries, and cozy nooks in hallways are all fair game.

Build classroom libraries of interesting, appropriate, and relevant fiction and non-fiction texts.

Expand your reading beyond fiction. Students have great curiosity about events taking place in the world, plants, animals, and people. Use historical fiction or non-fiction books as tools to capture this interest.

Advocate for curricula, partnerships, books, and resources for classrooms and schools that are culturally relevant and responsive.

Dr. Lauren Wells
Chief Education Officer
City of Newark

Donations are the heart of the campaign. Because we value reciprocity, we donate the books we receive to schools and community members who need them. Children deserve to have windows and mirrors to the world. Please complete the form below.

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This resource guide was created in direct response to the multiple requests made by educators, parents and students. Like Marley Dias, so many of you have asked for books with black girls as the main characters. And because of you, we have received thousands of books.

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We're offering a Stick Together Tuesday event weekly where we work on a Stick Together virtual sticker poster and chat.https://letsticktogether.com/products/virtual-sticktogether-collaboration
Then on Wednesdays we offer weekly Lunch Bunch as for once we have a common lunch where we eat lunch and chat.  Nice to get to know the kids and helpful for them as many are missing contact while at home.

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Being asked to do more and new things with all kinds of students. Schedule changes frequently. Work to do and be my best.

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I create a Google Slide monthly with books on a specific theme or topic. I have links to books students can read or listen to a read-aloud. I have used books from Epic! Books, Storyline Online, and YouTube. Here is the slide I created for November: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OItvHvsSe_wFZt--FXGjIzU-T9nEBa_nvpItaMSOUZE/edit#slide=id.p

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I'm terrible at delegating and love to have my hands on everything. This translates to getting burn out or not doing any one job really well.

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Read aloud extravaganza - 7 evenings of read-alouds from teachers and community members to celebrate reading and our online book fair.

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Read aloud extravaganza - 7 evenings of read-alouds from teachers and community members to celebrate reading and our online book fair.

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I'm making myself available to teachers when they need help. I'm in the specials rotation, so I can't always to go them, so I will have them bring their devices to me for trouble shooting. I also have a set up in my library where I can show them step by step how to troubleshoot something. I also stay after school a few days a week to help with something that I may not be able to help them with due to being on a rotation schedule.

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Virtual book tastings - giving students a way to preview books they might enjoy reading and then sending home small "book stacks" 

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Virtual book tastings - giving students a way to preview books they might enjoy reading and then sending home small "book stacks" 

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Another colleague and I created a program with support from our Superintendent where Ts are presenting to other Ts in workshop fashion around topics of Canvas/Zoom, Digital Pedagogy, and SEL/Building Relationships. Over 20 Ts have presented to over 1,400 Ts !!

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Jokefest for students.  Will be expanding to staff as well.

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Jokefest for students.  Will be expanding to staff as well.

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Using Flipgrid to allow students to add a joke to a collection for school spirit.

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Using online escape rooms and games to allow teamwork on remote Fridays in Skills classes. Reading Ghost by Jason Reynolds to my 6th grade Skills class after finished math work and remote days.

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Using online escape rooms and games to allow teamwork on remote Fridays in Skills classes. Reading Ghost by Jason Reynolds to my 6th grade Skills class after finished math work and remote days.

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Well, not really, but I try to go to the teachers' rooms when they need help or have a question as much as possible so they can focus on the students.

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I need to ask for opportunities to train students and teachers on how to access and use library resources. 

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I need to ask for opportunities to train students and teachers on how to access and use library resources. 

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Pre-K -3rd Grade Librarian
East Elementary
Hallsville ISD

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Creating modules of curated resources that teachers can drop in their courses

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Creating modules of curated resources that teachers can drop in their courses

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Our LMS is Canvas, and I create complete modules with videos, online database links, step sheets, etc. for particular units and send the full module ready for drop-in into the teacher's course. Embedding LibGuides directly into Canvas pages helps the students/teachers have direct access when needed. ~ Nan Lanford

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New Teacher Certificates of Collaboration

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New Teacher Certificates of Collaboration

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When I teach with one of our new teachers, I create a certificate that matches the domains of our teacher-evaluation system and then email it to them and their appraiser as evidence of their teaching excellence along with research about how librarian collaboration results in higher student performance on state accountability tests.

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I try to always have an open mind and am able to change what I'm doing at a moment's notice.

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I have been on campus since August even though no students are. However, I always have the Library door open and teachers often drop by just to communicate in person with someone or to have a safe place to vent. - Mary Manee

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Each Friday, I post a video of me reading the first chapter of a novel to a Google Classroom that students can join from my library website. I've started with the state book list, but I'll be doing new and diverse books when I finish with the state list.

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Putting instructional videos and resources by topic into a Canva infographic for teachers and students . . how to be  a better Google Searcher, APA/MLA citations and how to format correctly; our databases overview, how to find and checkout/use our eBook system, etc. All are housed in our Library Schoology Course which all students are members of and teachers have joined so they all have access to the resources. We've had great feedback.

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Putting instructional videos and resources by topic into a Canva infographic for teachers and students . . how to be  a better Google Searcher, APA/MLA citations and how to format correctly; our databases overview, how to find and checkout/use our eBook system, etc. All are housed in our Library Schoology Course which all students are members of and teachers have joined so they all have access to the resources. We've had great feedback.

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I've made a couple of collections in Sora since most students don't really know how to perform an advanced search. It gets students to "the good stuff" faster. It's great for themed collections, whether genres or specific collections for teachers.  I'll be adding more collections.

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Talking with teachers in different departments about current/favorite books that we recommend

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I do synchronous story times each week. I have books that I read to certain grade levels every year, and I notice many teachers really connect to the familiarity of "I love this book, Mrs. Taylor!" and I think it gives them cortisol-release to half-listen to a familiar story while I read. I didn't realize how important that was until this week. The teachers really look forward to me coming, so any thoughts I had of doing recordings for asynchronous story times are GONE. This is something I can do to SHIELD my colleagues, and it definitely creates relationships with the students. I'm amazed at how connected the students are to me.

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I am starting a virtual networking time for library media specialists in our state.

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Offer "after hours" time for librarians to meet via Zoom to share and support one another. WE often feel like an island at our individual campus. WE need to connect and create community as well.

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I am trying to find ways to support my teachers without adding unnecessary interruptions. Also focusing on developing a reading culture among students in various ways - visiting classrooms, First Chapter Fridays, continuing book fairs and book challenges.
Plus providing virtual spaces for students to find resources and enrichment that we are unable to provide in person (i.e clubs, etc.)

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Take the reflection tool and share your challenges

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Future Ready Librarian Challenges | Future Ready

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The new Future Ready Librarians Challenge Series is an ongoing series of bite-sized professional learning activities to help you learn new tools and strategies, focus your leadership, and connect with fellow librarians to share ideas and solutions.

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Junior High Librarian
Katy, TX
@ktlewis14
@mpjhlibrary

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Kettle Moraine High School
Wales, WI
@alyssavoigt13

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K12 Teacher Librarian, Siuslaw School District 97J, Florence, Oregon

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K12 Teacher Librarian, Siuslaw School District 97J, Florence, Oregon

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I'd love to connect with you!
Twitter: @jenmarymckenzie
Insta: @jenmarymckenzie
Insta: @siuslawlibrarymediaservices
FB: @siuslawlibrarymediaservices

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This includes collections for teachers and students. https://wke.lt/w/s/jLhrTj

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HS Teacher Librarian/District Lead Librarian
Castleberry High School/Castleberry ISD - Fort Worth, TX
@heatherlamb08
@thecubelibrary

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I love creating opportunities  for students to learn outside the box, from leaders and experts around the world, from scientists to artists, authors and more! Feel free to check out what these look like in action (teachers use with kids as webinars) at https://www.globaleducationak.org/library-live.html

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Cultivating a culture of reading and developing a community of readers

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Cultivating a culture of reading and developing a community of readers

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I was so fortunate to hear Jason Reynolds speak at a local librarian conference in Texas.  Here is a summary of his address at the ALA conference:
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/jason-reynolds-opens-annual/

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I'm new to a coastal PNW town, and I've been going "live onsite" / creating local Virtual Field Trips each week!  We visit a new organization/business, and also do a read aloud.  We've read from the Humane Society Catio and Kitten Nursery, horse stables, a rhododendron nursery, a mineral + jewelry shop, and next week = Oregon State Parks!  I travel with a device + wifi hotspot (wifi is our biggest challenge in coastal natural areas).  It's been a BLAST!
VFT:  The local trips have been great (we're researching each site, building a Destiny Collection of books and resources/linked to our Google Classroom).  We're linking our community to our school district.  It's totally highlighting all of our library standard areas:  Reading Advocacy + Info Literacy + DigiCit + Tech Integration.  End goal this year:  a VFT out at sea with Carrie Newel, local whale whisperer and marine biologist, who has identified/named most of our resident grey whales!  She takes research tours out in Zodiac boats and gets up close and personal to our whale friends!

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"A companion to the bestselling The Book Whisperer, Reading in the Wild explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching "wild" reading. Based on survey responses from over 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, Reading in the Wild offers solid advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage and assess key lifelong reading habits, including dedicating time for reading, planning for future reading, and defining oneself as a reader.

Includes advice for supporting the love of reading by explicitly teaching lifelong reading habits

Contains accessible strategies, ideas, tips, lesson plans and management tools along with lists of recommended books"

"When the thrill of choice reading starts to fade, it's time to grab Reading in the Wild. This treasure trove of resources and management techniques will enhance and improve existing classroom systems and structures." -Cris Tovani, secondary teacher, Cherry Creek School District, Colorado, consultant, and author of Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

"With Reading in the Wild, Donalyn Miller gives educators another important book. She reminds us that creating lifelong readers goes far beyond the first step of putting good books into kids' hands." -Franki Sibberson, third-grade teacher, Dublin City Schools, Dublin, Ohio, and author of Beyond Leveled Books

" Reading in the Wild, along with the now legendary The Book Whisperer, constitutes the complete guide to creating a stimulating literature program that also gets students excited about pleasure reading, the kind of reading that best prepares students for understanding demanding academic texts. In other words, Donalyn Miller has solved one of the central problems in language education." -Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus, University of Southern California

Full Reading in the Wild Twitter Chat Archive - January 12, 2014 (Start at the beginning and read backwards for chronological order.)
Teri Lesesne's Storify for Reading in the Wild Chat - January 12, 2014 BAM! Podcast with Larry Ferlazzo: What Are the Habits of Lifelong Readers and How Do We Instill Them? - February 2014

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"A companion to the bestselling The Book Whisperer, Reading in the Wild explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching "wild" reading. Based on survey responses from over 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, Reading in the Wild offers solid advice and strategies on how to develop,...

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Some Seattle T-L's also have a great collaboration going on with the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public.  They created Teachers for an Informed Public to bring digital citizenship instruction through MisInfo Day to all WA students by collaborating with classroom teachers.

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Dawn Goodale My super power is helping my students, especially reluctant readers, find the right book. 

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Dawn Goodale My super power is helping my students, especially reluctant readers, find the right book. 

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So many different responsibilities and so little time! I know I can only do so much in a day though and I'm okay with that. :)

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Old book, but good because it's from a principal's perspective on what school librarians should do to be leaders

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Old book, but good because it's from a principal's perspective on what school librarians should do to be leaders

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Hartzell, G. N. (2003). Building influence for the school librarian: Tenets, targets, and tactics (2nd ed.). Worthington, OH: Linworth Publishing.

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Shannon and I have fun creatively brainstorming new ideas. This year especially we need to be flexible and willing to try new things!

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This is the "Brave Before Perfect" sticker. If you want one, email me (traci.chun@vansd.org) your mailing address (or put in the chat or private message on Twitter).

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Trauma-Informed School Libraries: A Space for All by Elizabeth Pelayo

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Trauma-Informed School Libraries: A Space for All by Elizabeth Pelayo

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This article was in the January/February 2020 issue of Knowledge Quest. The entire issue was outstanding.

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Teacher Librarian for a K-8 school in Alameda California....reassigned this year to a second grade while our school libraries are shuttered for the year. Hoping this changes as I love my little class, but feel the immense loss to our school and district when school libraries are shuttered.

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K-5 Teacher Librarian at Whittier & LI Wilder Elementary Schools, Indianola CSD, Indianola, IA

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Creating a Bitmoji virtual library, shared with students and teachers. Took pictures of different areas in the library and offered the community to place their bitmojis in their favorite place. Was very successful. 

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Creating a Bitmoji virtual library, shared with students and teachers. Took pictures of different areas in the library and offered the community to place their bitmojis in their favorite place. Was very successful. 

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Thinking big picture about education  and learning communities in out-of-the-box ways, Steve Hargadon inspires many..and you'll find your way to learn and share,m and inspire others.  Welcome to a thought leader in the future of education.
https://www.stevehargadon.com/p/about-me.html

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Carving out time to create core standards based lessons that integrate digital citizenship and information literacy standards is my big challenge right now. In this virtual environment, this is so important!

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Amana Elementary Teacher Librarian and Amana Community Library Director in Amana, Iowa. We are part of the Clear Creek Amana School District. I'm proudly adding 1st grade virtual teacher to my titles this year, too. :)

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Tipping Point and Outliers have been amazingly helpful (and SOOO interesting) this year.

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Middle and High School Librarian, WBAIS Israel

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I'm one of the K-5 teacher librarians in Indianola, Iowa which is near Des Moines.  I work at 2/4 elementary buildings.  One of my buildings is on a year round calendar.  I've been a TL for 13 years.  I love my job!  I would love to connect with some of you elementary TLs for Mystery Skypes.  Twitter:  @suziQlibrarian

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I have had the honor to meet Erin twice and she is AMAZING! I am inspired by every book she writeshttps://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Heart-Lessons-Learned/dp/0767915844
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Book - Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly by Brad Montague

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Book - Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly by Brad Montague

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He's the man behind "Kid President", if you're familiar with that.

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Librarian PreK-5 Humble ISD in Elm Grove Elementary -Kingwood, Texas near Houston
@egelibrarian

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Here are the kits we created for take & make: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YEwAqYWCWo4905qbfQei3JZarM-_XjWkif_5UjwwqMw/edit?usp=sharing

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Starting to get some traffic in my Virtual Bitmoji Library :)

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Starting to get some traffic in my Virtual Bitmoji Library :)

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Mrs. Pata pataa@gpschools.org See you in B214/216 No phone? No problem! Welcome to the Virtual Library!

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We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor

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We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor

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I listen to this book during the summer thanks to my public library (Deschutes Public Libraries :) It was so inspiring and made me want to move to a middle school library.

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I just finished my Digital Library Bitmoji :)

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I just finished my Digital Library Bitmoji :)

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I have to thank Miranda Doyle, District Librarian at Lake Oswego School District for the inspiration and help.

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Welcome to Digital Library Teachers’ shelf Teachers, invite Ms. Pia to your Google meet classes -Research lessons -Booktalks -Information Fluency lessons (i.e. Fake news) -Tech tools & tips, and more Anti-Racist Library DPLS Educator & Student Services If you can’t go outside, read by Grant Snyde...

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Being on Distance Learning I am pretty flexible, and if I need to bag chromebooks, or make phone calls, I am more than happy to do it if helps our families to feel better about themselves.

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District doesn't believe in school libraries

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District doesn't believe in school libraries

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I have to prove every day that I am valuable (Do I have to say every time that I have 3 masters and a teaching degree?) and it's exhausting. I become invaluable when they need me to translate or interpret for Spanish speaker families, though. The average of books in my school is 1994 :(

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That's the motto of my new school and I love it!

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I am Pia Alliende, teacher librarian working as classified library tech  in a Middle School (last year in an elementary school)  in Central Oregon. My district doesn't have certified librarians since 2009. Twitter @palliende Instagram @la.intervencionista

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High school librarian in Albuquerque, NM
@sandiareads

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I’m not a naturally organized person. It takes a lot of time and energy for me to stay organized.

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I often work on things outside of my responsibility to help the school and its students.

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I need to spend time advocating for the library through social media.

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I love finding ways for students to express their own voices.

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Making collections for all primary grades and subjects

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Making collections for all primary grades and subjects

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I have been developing resource lists and collections for my primary teachers. This is something new that has never been done in our library before (I'm new to the library, second year in)

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Proving I Do More Than "Check out books."

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Proving I Do More Than "Check out books."

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I have taught myself Bitmoji Library creating, Screencastify, Zoom, Padlet, etc. and are using these to reach out to staff and students. I Zoom with 17 classes through out the week for Library time. I have rounded up textbooks - cleaned them, labeled them with student names and checked them out for curbside pick up. I make sure students know about resources out there to help them during this time - Myon, Kids Audible, what our Public Library is offering, etc.

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My goodness going from a 1-1 classroom model to a individual checkout and then helping with every little tech problem because students and teachers know I will get to it right away instead of being on hold with the help desk...it's been exhausting! :)

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I work at the state level so my position is different - I have been working "double time" to curate as many resources as I can for my colleagues, I have also been working on a curated list of our K-12 electronic resources that directly support specific state standards, finally I have done a bunch of virtual trainings and meetings to support my fellow school librarians and educators.

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Creating multiple avenues to give students and teachers access to books, digital tools, and resources to help and support their needs

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Creating multiple avenues to give students and teachers access to books, digital tools, and resources to help and support their needs

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Finding ways to deliver books at weekly curbside pickup is thriving. But when the day is over, it is those students who were not able to come...and so I've recruited parent volunteers to do deliveries to our students furthest from educational justice.  And going the extra mile, I grab a bike-basket full and deliver with pedal power.

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I am working the district call center a half day each day.

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I am working the district call center a half day each day.