Litsy

National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries | American Association of School Librarians

Took me all day but I finally came up with three things.

1) The library.
2) Marching band.
3) Swings.

#tlt #threelistthursday

dabbe

dabbe L😍VE these, especially the swings. Thanks for sharing. 💛🤎🧡 5h

Reggie I was a big band nerd. President of the band my senior year. Allstate. AllDistrict. I miss being part of something like a group of 50-70 people who work together to make something beautiful. 2h

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peaKnit

Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

1. I have to steal @Kshakal answer, Scholastic Book Fairs. Gosh, the thrill!
2. Playing in the band, being the drum major 🤓 🪈
3. Miss Nancy Lindell, best teacher EVER!

Bonus - seeing friends. I‘m looking sort of forward to a gathering tomorrow to celebrate 36 years? We could not do math.

Tagging all the school kids!

dabbe L😍VE this! And #3? What fun! Have a blast! Thanks for sharing. 🧡🤎💛 20h

AmyG I forgot the book fair. I LOVED those. 20h

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Chrissyreadit

Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein

#tlt #threelistthursday
I LOVED school- High School, College and Grad school! (I was a huge nerd )
I loved so much about High School-
1. I was able to attend Close Up 3 times - a program in DC to actively learn about govt,
2. I participated in The National Conf of Christian and Jews- it was life changing.
3. I was very active in Student Govt and Track by Sr year Captain of my team and President of my class.
My HS had 6000 students.

dabbe

TheLudicReader 6000! Students?! What the heck! 1d

tpixie Amazing experiences. 6000 students! I‘m glad you found a nitch to feel at home. 1d

dabbe 6000 students? That's an entire town! W😍WZA! Love these answers! What was your best even in track? I was fairly decent at the hop, step, jump--or do they now call it the triple jump? 😂 Thanks for sharing. 💛🤎🧡 1d

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Chrissyreadit @dabbe I ran cross country. My best meet was a City champs I came in 12 (B division - not amazing) 1d

Butterfinger Cool accomplishments!!! 1d

dabbe @Chrissyreadit I couldn't even run across the track once! #yahooyou! 💛🤎🧡 1d

TheBookHippie WOWIE!!! 22h

TheBookHippie Also I now have a friend who liked school- you 🤣♥️🤭♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 22h

Suet624 Wow! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 20h

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kelli7990

The Digital Reader: Using E-books in K-12 Education | Terence W. Cavanaugh

I found this text to speech app and used it to listen to the ARC I just finished reading. I‘m using the free plan. The free plan gave me 2 hours of listening time but I ran out of time so I bought 30 hours. The ARC I read had guy and girl POVs so for this book, I was switching back and forth between a guy‘s voice and a girl‘s voice. That made it more fun for me to listen to instead of just having Siri reading it to me.

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peanutnine

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

July #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
It was interesting that both of these books discussed the covid pandemic and its affects on the main subject. Serendipitous timing

julieclair Interesting how the pandemic could influence two such completely different topics. But come to think of it, the pandemic probably influenced just about every topic imaginable. 2w

peanutnine @julieclair so very true. I think I just haven't read much nonfiction that had been written after the pandemic and actually talked about it in such detail. Certainly interesting that I read these two back to back that did 2w

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julieclair

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

Looking forward to seeing everyone‘s August selections for #MonthlyNonfiction2025 !

Sarahreadstoomuch, rockpools, kspenmoll, mhillis, Gissy, Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick, ferskner, Lauredhel, TEArificbooks, MonicaLoves2Read, Rissreadswithcats, TheBookgeekFrau, TheAromaofBooks, peanutnine, willaful

julieclair I‘ll be reading

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

TEArificbooks Currently reading

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Lauredhel Not sure yet, but something will come up! 2w

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peanutnine I'm excited my hold just came in for

The Third Gilmore Girl

TheAromaofBooks I have not been going a good job posting, but I actually have been keeping up with this challenge!! My 700 book this month is

Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff

MonicaLoves2Read The Devil Behind the Badge is what I plan on reading this Month 2w

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lanecannon

The Knowledge Gap: The hidden cause of America's broken education system--and how to fix it | Natalie Wexler

so-so

It was hard for me to grasp the gist of this book. I understood that she's proposing content driven curriculum but I couldn't follow HOW to do it and what to do. Overall I was disappointed. Felt like a merry-go-round

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Rachel.Rencher

Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 | Rafe Esquith

I picked up this book to get some new ideas for the upcoming school year. It has some good advice and tips that I plan to implement, but when I Googled the author to find his Pengiun blog, I found that he was fired from his district for old allegations of sexual misconduct. He started a class action suit against the district for firing teachers who were close to retirement to save on benefits, but that's kind of leaving me with a bad taste now. 😐

Rachel.Rencher Also, he mentions in the book that his elementary age students can call him for homework help after hours, work with him on the weekends, and they call him by his first name. I know this was published 20 years ago, but yikesss. Ugh. Can anyone recommend a good teacher book? I feel like they're all so cheesy, and if I do find a good one, the guy is a damn predator. 😭 3w

GingerAntics In this day and age, I can get having a virtual classroom chat where questions can be sent to the teacher and the teacher can answer after hours if possible, but only in the school approved system. We used Microsoft teams, so o specifically had a “room” that I called office hours, and I told them they could ask a question whenever and I would answer as soon as I could. I knew the school could see very chat and every word, so I felt okay about it. 3w

GingerAntics One of my students having my phone number? Man, even students that have graduated don‘t even have that. Weird. I guess if I was working with elementary age kids, I could have a phone just for school that MAYBE parents had, but even that seems a bit much. It‘s better to have the paper trail of emails or chats anyway. That is creepy. 3w

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CoffeeK8 I‘ll recommend this book! I‘m on the admin side now, but this one helped me be a better teacher by becoming a more focused person at work

Awakened: Change Your Mindset to Transform Your Teaching

Rachel.Rencher @GingerAntics Yeah, I just felt creepier the more I read it. I'd never give a kid my phone number, but I do answer questions when I see them from school email or Google Classroom only. 3w

Rachel.Rencher @CoffeeK8 Awesome! Thank you for the recommendation. 🙂 3w

GingerAntics @Rachel.Rencher exactly! That covers you in case anyone claims anything. The class action may point to him not doing anything illegal or anything, but he did do some shady stuff. 3w

staci.reads What do you teach? I may have some reason for you if you are secondary. 2w

Rachel.Rencher @staci.reads I teach 8th grade! 2w

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tylera_

Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers | Penny Kittle

Chapter 3

This chapter helped me think more about what it looks like to support a whole class of readers. I like how Kittle balances structure and trust. She's paying attention without turning reading into a chore. Tracking page numbers just to check in, not to grade, really stood out. The part about helping students set personal goals also made sense. It's like a way to help them take ownership without making it all about points.

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