Monisha Blair

Thank you everyone who joined for SLJTeen Live today! If you missed today's event, you can still watch the replays of these fantastic conversations by registering at the link below.

“Reading is under siege” powerful words to inspire readers to action from Helena Haywoode Henry! Thank you to all four authors for an amazing Power to the Page panel at #SLJTeenLive

Tomorrow! Don’t forget to register!

A good #library isn’t an extra. It’s a foundation. 📚💯

Kicking off year 5 in the school library!

I would not handle this well. There would likely be lots of screaming involved.

An existing issue exacerbated by gAI 🫠

Hard same

You are a rockstar even if you don’t realize it

Eh, it’s mid… could be worse 🤣

AI Bunnies on Trampoline Causing Crisis of Confidence on TikTok People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop has sparked worries that many more people could fall for online scams.

Yes, you should use #NewsLiteracy skills to examine cute animal videos like bunnies on trampolines. Sharing these pieces of engagement bait only further pollutes the information landscape. @404media.co article ⤵️

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

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SLJTeen Live! 2025 Join us Thursday, August 7th for our 14th annual SLJTeen Live! virtual event! Come hear about the latest and most exciting forthcoming titles for teens and tweens. From rom-coms and mysteries to graph...

Join us Thursday, August 7th for our 14th annual #SLJTeenLive! virtual event! Come hear about the latest and most exciting forthcoming titles for teens and tweens. 📚✨

📅 August 7
⌚ 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
🔗 Register now: hubs.la/Q03m-zR40

One week from today! Can’t wait to chat with Marie Arnold, Helena Haywoode Henry, @farahheronauthor.bsky.social , and @renepenagovea.bsky.social about this phenomenal line up of books. #SLJTeenLive!

It’s def not my best work 🤣

Vanilla cake with buttercream

Nailed It! The tween came home with homework for soccer camp 🫠 He needed an edible flag of their team for tomorrow. I hate that I did his hw for him, but I hope the cake is delicious #FormerPaulistaFan

NEW: The Senate just reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and expand federal protections for our right to vote.

As states continue to pass legislation that makes voting harder, it's time for our leaders to protect this essential right.

You should also be radicalized if your school has a library with no qualified school librarian--which is most often the case!

For people who want to know more about segregated Carnegie libraries

"The Roots of Community: Segregated Carnegie Libraries as Spaces for Learning and Community-Making in Pre-Civil Rights America, 1900-65"

one of the many things IMLS funding has helped bring to life.

aquila.usm.edu/rocoverview/

But clearly you ARE being thoughtful in your curation even if you aren’t living up to your own creativity standards

They are probably better than you think

It’s a tie - Biological Anthropology and Discovering Washington Theater

Before crossing the bridge

With Mr. Henry Lewis, Rep. John Lewis’s younger brother

We got to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge Saturday to not only commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday with folks who were attacked in the bridge that day, but also the 35th anniversary of the passage of the ADA which was the next large milestone in American civil rights #GoodTrouble

Incredibly grateful to have spent the last few days honoring the legacy of Rep. John Lewis with the Lewis Leadership Program’s trip to Nashville, Montgomery, Selma, Troy, and Atlanta.

Annual homemade roasted plum ice cream is ready just in time for National ice cream month and peak stone fruit season

Pocket Bear

"When I think about the books I’ve most loved writing, it always it comes back to stories for middle grade readers. I so love that audience. I love their unquenchable curiosity. Their fierce idealism. And their boundless imaginations." @kaaauthor.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-gu...

“Read, my Child, Read!” | Remembering John Lewis “He taught me that it is OK to get into ‘good trouble,’ and we all have a moral obligation to speak up and fight against injustices,” says school librarian K.C. Boyd. We remember Rep. John Lewis, incl...

“Read, my Child, Read!” | Remembering John Lewis (July 2020)

Demand a school library that is well funded & staffed with a trained and licensed school librarian.