Megan Peterson, NBCT

@iramarcks.bsky.social We’re going BIG this year! 7th graders have already read more than 144 books in 5 weeks this school year! They want to get to 1000! #bookgoals Let’s see if we can get more than 100 more with your books! 🎥🦈📚

I’m so excited to officially announce a third companion novel in the ALONE series!
Publication is planned for Jan ‘27, but I need help with a title! Should it start with A? Should it be one word? If your readers have ideas, I would love to hear them!
@simonkids.bsky.social @mgauthorcade.bsky.social

“Being a teacher is an essential connection between what is and what can be.” —Teresa Thayer Snyder

“Being a teacher is an essential connection between what is and what can be.” —Teresa Thayer Snyder

#EduSky #teachers

The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic guide on the writing process and the artist’s identity by Brenda Ueland, and #PWWritingPrompts on sharing the air, shorelines, and imperfect objects. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

Trouble by Schmidt & The Book of Alchemy 📚❤️

Who’s in? 100 days in a row… #writinggoals #amreading #creativity #journaling #alchemyday1

I’m loving Anthony’s story 💜 I’m pulling for Roddy’s story next 🤞🤞🤞#amreading #graphicnovels #bookgoals #kidlit

Tomorrow is going to be exciting…it’s anyone guess who will get to change this to 6 ✋🤚…

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The real celebration will be more than 60 books read in only our 3rd week of school!!! #reading #ELA #middleschoolmagic #bookgoals

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People's Literature The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

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Enter to win from @mgauthorcade.bsky.social 📚an amazing group of authors!!!

“We believe that even—perhaps especially—in a digital age, books create a critical experience that can be created through no other means. Ensuring that students read books—excellent books, whole books, together in groups, often aloud to maximize the sense of connection they create—will maximize the chances that they become better readers, more knowledgeable students, and that they come to love and value reading.” —Doug Lemov, Colleen Driggs, & Erica Woolway, of Teach Like a Champion

3 members of the Teach Like a Champion team explain why students need to read whole books—even when it’s hard: edut.to/3IWhzjS

#EduSky #literacy

Book 12 ✅ #summerreading #bookgoals #ELA #ELAteacher #30booksummer #PD

To help teachers make design choices that optimize their classrooms for effective learning, we consulted dozens of studies and asked our community of experienced educators to share their favorite strategies.

Here are some of the top classroom design tips we found. 🔎

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27 Ways to Optimize Your Classroom Design for Better Learning A research-based lineup of smart, effective classroom design tips that support deep learning, reduce distraction, and build belonging.

Classroom design is partly an art, and partly a science.

To make it easier for you this year, we compiled 27 research-backed, teacher-tested tips. Check ‘em out below. 👇

#ClassroomDesign #BackToSchool #EduSky

Haiku July, Day 28

Beautiful book! Book #11 ✅ #summerreading #bookgoals #poetry #kidlit #30booksummer #readthis

Book #10 #summerreading #30booksummer #poetry #bookgoals

Book 9 #summerreading #30booksummer #graphicnovels

Teachers: Check out our PBS @NewsHour Classroom #JournalismInAction Exploitation: Labor and Immigration

Fun interactives, photos, videos and newspaper articles — all high-quality #primarysources from the @LibraryCongress! Gr 6-12.

#sschat #civics #apgov #apush

Case Link: https://bit.ly/44S8QpU

Haiku July, Day 17

Spark a lifelong love of reading with these 4 classroom strategies that will keep students turning pages all school year long. 📖✨

#EduSky #ElementaryTeacher #literacy #EdutopiaVideos

If an artist inspired you—even forever ago—tell them.
We share the cool stuff when it happens, but most of our time is spent being quietly uncool. The one thing we can count on is knowing we’ve inspired others to chase their own cool things. This is a nice reminder ❤️

PD on writing instruction & novel studies ! 📚❤️📝

Classroom scavenger hunt, reading & writing questionnaires, annotating a song they would use as their walk up song, write me a letter about you!

Have you shared with orgs like Trout Unlimited and Fly Fishers International? Lots of amateur entomologists among their members 🎣

Everything by Bryce Andrews - just finished his latest, as amazing as ever. Everything is TB by Green was outstanding & the heartbreak sticks with me

1. Find your marigolds
2. Have more than enough ideas for week 1, so that you can toss the ones that won’t work, once you meet your Ss
3. Make it a goal to be two weeks @ a time planned out by Oct.
4. Have fun, faith, and you can do anything for 180 👊

Well this snuck up on me. THE LONELIEST PLACE (Blight Harbor #3) is out in PB on July 15th. Now you can get Evie's whole story in paperback.

And PENNIES - a Blight Harbor prequel - is coming on September 23rd.

All my books available signed from Aunties and Wishing Tree in Spokane, WA. They ship!

1-Minute Read. Teaching Strategies. 8 Scaffolds That’ll Make You Ask, ‘Why Didn’t I Know This’? By Todd Finley. Illustration of a student sitting at a desk and a teacher standing next to them, with light gray clouds / thought bubbles surrounding both of them. One of the clouds is blue, and the teacher is holding it.

Are your tried-and-true scaffolding strategies still effective?

If you’re looking for new ways to support students, @toddfinley.bsky.social shares eight lesser-known techniques that will make you ask: Why didn’t I know this?

#EduSky #EdChat

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1 within 2 weeks it’s the practice I’m most confident with all year long
2 at the very least/worst Ss are ready for class to begin
3 time for me to latch on to title that someone is reading, ? them - everyone gets the benefit of convo
4 community = - it’s the most self/ peer regulated “shh!” time