Leigh Woznick

Tables filled with colorful bookmarks on the theme of kindness or be kind to the earth, made by 7th and 8th grade students for Giving Tuesday

Tables filled with colorful bookmarks on the theme of kindness or be kind to the earth, made by 7th and 8th grade students for Giving Tuesday

Tables filled with colorful bookmarks on the theme of kindness or be kind to the earth, made by 7th and 8th grade students for Giving Tuesday

A flyer in a plastic holder. Explaining the giving Tuesday bookmark program

@etraintalks.bsky.social thank you for the inspiration! I am SO proud of my middle school students. They made *435* kindness bookmarks for Giving Tuesday. They voted to donate them to The Valerie Fund Children’s Cancer Centers. Here are some of the bookmarks:

Ghost Boys Graphic Novel book cover. Red background. Black boy in center with head bowed wearing a black hoodie.

Ghost Boys #GraphicNovel by @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social
Full of ghosts of today and the past who lost their lives too soon because someone in "power" felt threatened by a little boy. Ghosts of decades past address how little we have come. #MG #YA #TLSky #BookSky #YA #BookRecommendation

I remember using that one, too!!

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social that was a fantastic @pbsnewshour chat! Thanks for sharing your info.

Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans. Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.

If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone.

bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

This Halloween, Teach Your Students Ghost Stories and Urban Legends (Opinion) There’s real academic value in tapping into local tall tales. Here’s why.

Studying legends and ghost stories about a community can help students develop historical thinking and information literacy skills
#EduSky #TLSky
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Promotional poster for the I Love My Librarian Award 2026, sponsored by the American Library Association and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Text highlights a $5,000 prize with a website link at the bottom.

Spread librarian love! Nominate an extraordinary librarian for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Nominations are accepted online now through Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. ilovelibraries.org/love-my-librarian

The Booker Prize Foundation launches Children’s Booker Prize

The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Children’s Booker Prize, the charity’s first award for children’s fiction. 👇 #BookSky

I do my part by educating my students about it…

Disturbing but hardly surprising. But what do we do about it?? I fear the horse has left the barn.

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EDUCATORS: Join this PBS NewsHour Classroom zoom to share *your concerns* about AI in a supportive, caring space. We will not be recording this mtg.

Thur. Oct. 30, 2025 7-8pm ET | #MediaLiteracyWeek @pbsteachers.bsky.social

RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBS-AI-Zoom10-30

Stop Saying “Let’s Just Be Flexible with AI” Why Students Need Clarity, Not Chaos. - The future of teaching with AI doesn’t require omniscience. It requires courage to draw lines, explain why they matter, and revise them together when the world shifts again.

Students need clarity and be trained, educated in using AI.  #EduSky

Video: Opinion | I Have Whale Eyes. You Can Still Look Me in the Eye. A filmmaker devises a few experiments to help his family experience his disability — and show how a little imagination can make us all more empathetic.

Here’s the NYTimes opinion film that came first.

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Book cover of Whale Eyes by James Robinso white font on orange background with simple child-like illustration of half a boy’s face wearing baseball cap looking out of eye shape tunneled with concentric circles

Inventive and interactive #middlegrade illustrated memoir explores the effects of misaligned eyes and helps overcome “outrigue” of those who stare and misunderstand. By Emmy-award-winning doc film-maker James Robinson. Buy #WhaleEyes
#booksky #schoollibrarians #disabilitylit #kidlit

I love them and so do my students! Such a gift that she shares so I can just switch out for books in my collection. And I have made many of my own with her templates. Definitely helps with reader’s advisory!

So, @wakelet.bsky.social is going the way of Padlet & Smore and every other tool librarians love. I get it, it’s a business and you can’t give it free forever. But i am so sad. Anybody got an alternative yet?? #schoollibrarians @aaslala.bsky.social @njasl.bsky.social #ISTE

Never watched The Simpsons, or Family Guy, Breaking Bad, Dexter, etc

Curious about some logistics:
Do they take the hooks/needles home with them until done with the project?
Did you lose a lot of them?
Do you do how-to lessons?
Did you offer certain projects?

Huzzah! Perfect!!

And Jane Yolen’s

www.janeyolen.com/tam-lin/

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

Hi

For fans of your books looking for more I recommend Natalie Richards, Kate Alice Marshall, maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious series, and Diana Peterfreund’s Clue series. Plus Inheritance Games and other series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Does anyone have collectible author cards they’d be willing to share? Middle-school appropriate please. Thinking it might build reading excitement for my students. Canva or google shareable would be awesome.

School cell phone ban creates surge in JCPS library visits District leaders are calling it a culture shift within Jefferson County Public Schools.

Some more good news about what happens when you take cell phones out of schools.

This is impressive! And gorgeous! Are you working with a pattern??!!

Graham Greene Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Was 73 Graham Greene, a trailblazing Canadian First Nations actor & 'Dances With Wolves' star who opened doors for Indigenous actors, died September 1, 2025.

Such a good screen presence. He made anything he was in better.

deadline.com/2025/09/grah...

Yes! I have a few, too! Want them all…

Mostly I’m with you on that— but i do listen while walking, driving, or crafting ☺️