@joellenmccarthy.bsky.social My #LibraryHaul after attending @theedcollab.bsky.social Fall Gathering yesterday! 💜 #BuildYourStack #BookLove #KidLit

Join us Sat for the Fall 2025 #TheEdCollabGathering with the *wonder-full* Stella Villalba and Katie Wood Ray. All are welcome: theeducatorcollaborative.com/wp-content/u... @jessicawalshedu.bsky.social @theedcollab.bsky.social

Wrapped up our Novel in Verse unit by performing poems from our books in the Starbooks Cafe! 🤌🏼📚☕️🕯️#204Reads

🐻📚 Grizzly Readers met for Caudill Books & Bites Book Club today to discuss Lasagna Means I Love You by @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social ! @rcyrba.bsky.social #204Reads

Professional texts I spent time with in January #204Reads

Here’s our complete (but growing!) classroom library collection: docs.google.com/presentation... #VerseNovels

ELA Unit 3 Verse Unit - Independent Reading Novels in Verse (Shareable)

African Town By Charles Waters and Irene Latham In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured an...

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Jessica Walsh@jessicawalshedu.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week, Grizzly readers selected their new Dive In book for our Verse Unit after days of book tastings! 🐻📚 @authorlisafipps.bsky.social @aidawrites.bsky.social #VerseNovels #204Reads

This week, Grizzly readers selected their new Dive In book for our Verse Unit after days of book tastings! 🐻📚 @authorlisafipps.bsky.social @aidawrites.bsky.social #VerseNovels #204Reads

I can see why readers rave about Lifeboat 12 by @susanhood.bsky.social! Excited to add it to next month’s Novels in Verse unit with 7th graders! #204Reads

Wow! One of the best books I read this year! And Then, Boom! by (I just discovered) fellow Ball State grad @authorlisafipps.bsky.social (chirp chirp!) Can’t wait to include this in our Novels in Verse unit next month! #204Reads

November’s Caudill Books & Bites Book Club selection was Christina Soontornvat’s The Tryout! @rcyrba.bsky.social #204Reads

This was excellent! #204Reads

This week Grizzly readers gathered for Caudill Books & Bites Book Club to discuss @dsantat’s A First Time for Everything! 📚 🍽️ Up next, Lasagna Means I Love You! @rcyrba.bsky.social @dansantat.bsky.social #204Reads

Can’t wait to start our next read aloud with Grizzly 7th graders, Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi, a beautiful novel in verse about belonging, family, and Da Bears! 🐻⬇️ #204Reads

Wow! The @chicagosymphony.bsky.social took Elf to another level! 🎶🎄🎞️

Another beautiful novel in verse to add to our classroom library! @victoriachang.bsky.social #204Reads

Loved seeing &Juliet at @broadwayinchicago.bsky.social this week! 🎶 🎧 💓

Such a nice surprise to have one of my families send items from our class wishlist! #kwamealexander @littlebrownyr.bsky.social #aidasalazar @penguinschoollib.bsky.social @lamargiles.bsky.social #204Reads

Stuck around after #NCTE24! Visited Brookline Booksmith where I spotted and bought And Then, Boom! by @authorlisafipps.bsky.social! #204Reads

Thanks @brianlarossa.com for reminding me it's #nationalillustrationday. Celebrate by sharing a wordless picture book with a reader. Here's a small sampling of my favorites to share with kids. Which wordless picture books have resonated with your students? #edusky #kidlitart #kidlit

Here's a few of the picture books that I can't wait to share with kids and teachers!📚💛 #EduSky #NCTE24 @stephenbriseno.bsky.social @karilavellewrites.bsky.social @joannahowrites.bsky.social @thetututeacher.bsky.social

How do you spell thankful? Read alouds to spark conversations about gratitude. 📚💛 #Gratitude #Thankfulness #Read #ReadAloud #KidLit

Incredible Novel in Verse session at #NCTE24. @rajanilarocca.bsky.social @kaholt.bsky.social @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social

Running into my @theedcollab.bsky.social tech partner-in-crime = priceless! #NCTE24

Loved sharing our favorite Family and Food picture book and novel pairings at our Build Your Stack session today! #NCTE24 @mariapwalther.bsky.social

So excited to be at #NCTE24 celebrating the joy and power of picture book read alouds! I’m looking forward to connecting with educators, creators, and fellow book lovers here!📚💛

📚🐻 7th grade Book Clubs are thriving! @ellenhopkins.bsky.social @nancyrosep.bsky.social #kwamealexander #jamespatterson @hachettelibrary.bsky.social #204Reads

Looking forward to all of the BYS sessions this weekend at #NCTE24!

No place like Soldier Field. 🐻⬇️

💔We miss EduTwitter very much. 💙 SO join @ichrislehman.bsky.social and @drtharris.bsky.social next Tuesday on this app for a Bluesky Educator Chat to (RE)CONNECT. Use #theedcollab 🙏Tag & invite other edufriends! We can figure this app our together. While we (re)build community.