Monisha Blair

Teaching America at 250 Together, SLJ's Teaching at 250 articles and interviews explore what it means to teach, write, and live U.S. history at 250.

Teaching America at 250
Together, SLJ's Teaching at 250 articles and interviews explore what it means to teach, write, and live U.S. history at 250.
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American History Through a Local Lens | Teaching America at 250 A Virginia high school project spotlights community stories of service in an effort to look back at the past and inspire service in the future.

Check out this feature in @slj.com ‘s March issue on the student created traveling museum of service that we hosted in January. Thank you @karayorio.bsky.social for the beautiful spotlight on our students’ work! www.slj.com/story/americ... @drewsgotthoughts.bsky.social

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” —Josef Albers, Artist and Educator

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Next week!

Olympic fun in the library today! We did some library book curling paired with book trivia 🥌

As someone who literally shared a crib with her male best friend and still bestie… ew, that man is my sibling.

School librarians are licensed teachers, often with advanced degrees, who teach students how to access, process, and share information from many and varied sources. Bookshelves can’t do that, Stewart.

The library without a librarian is neither curated nor fully resourced. It is just a room.

ROTFL

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Not blocked, but he deleted the post

Must be the elves that help the shoemaker

I think he’s trying to be sincere but this ain’t it

“Welcome extra”???

Who else is purchasing, maintaining, and curating those resources?

❤️❤️❤️ who matters to you and how do you show them?

From The King and I?

Joanne Bland, lifelong Civil Rights activist and founder of Selma's Foot Soldiers Park, dies Bland grew up in Selma and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72.

"By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

“The beautiful mess of student thinking isn’t a problem to fix. It’s the heart of learning. When we create classrooms where students think aloud, connect ideas, and build evolving explanations, we’re not just teaching [content]. We’re preparing them to reason through the world’s complexity.” —Thomas TJ McKenna, Educator

Thomas shares 4 strategies to create a curious classroom: https://edut.to/4qknKhq

a sign that says do not disturb reading with an open book ALT: a sign that says do not disturb reading with an open book

I just got an OOO message from someone at Penguin Young Readers saying that it’s Drop Everything and Read day so they won’t be responding to emails. I love that for them and I want that for me.

A colleague asked what I thought about middle schoolers last week.

"I love middle schoolers as a group. They're becoming aware of the problems with the world they're inheriting. They want to know the real deal, not the little kid version, and then they want to do something about it."

Keeping Curiosity Alive Humans have long had a cultural suspicion of curiosity. We warn children that ‘Curiosity killed the cat!’ We tell stories like those of Adam and Eve or Pandora’s Box, where curiosity leads to disas…

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, I wonder if curiosity will become one of the most valuable human qualities left. Here's my latest blog about 'curiosity': school-matters.org/2026/02/13/k... #education #edusky #teachers

Finally watched this and was sobbing as @librarianjones.com talked about our responsibility to protect kids 💔💔💔

Highly recommend everyone watch this documentary. The work we do matters.

a cartoon character pointing at a map of the united states Alt: Yakko naming countries of the world

Bad Bunny like

Fuck ICE

Yes, it’s oddly invasive

Ugh, typos

I have those socks!

Watching the Canada/ Swiss women’s hockey game

Me: There’s not enough octopus being thrown on the ice

Husband: ???

#Redwings #HockeytoownUSA

at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.