Jaime Abel

Did they make Kraft Mac n cheese healthier!? 😭

So let me get this straight checks are a small piece of paper someone can tuck in their pocket with all my information including my bank account number and we still use this as a normal form of payment

Speech-to-text thinks my dog “Godric” is “Goic.”
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The LGBTQ+ community is facing a seemingly endless wave of attacks — bans on gender-affirming care, anti-trans legislation, cuts to HIV funding. It is chilling. And deliberate.

However, every time they tried to write us out, we wrote ourselves back in—louder, prouder, and more determined than ever.

A Refuge From Censorship: Why Independent Bookstores Will Save Us I was six hundred miles into a two-thousand-mile road trip, doing jumping jacks at a rest stop in Ohio to wake myself up, when my phone buzzed with the update I’d been dreading. The U.S. Court of A…

Why, in an age of book bans and assaults on public libraries, indie booksellers are more essential than ever.

Today, 4 hedge fund managers on Wall St. earn more in a year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined.

Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.

Follow up: I also really appreciate that I can take pictures of the bugs around my house and have the machine tell me no, it’s not poisonous and going to kill me. But my melons and cucumbers are screwed.

New best use for AI:
Hey ChatGPT, here’s the pattern I want to crochet (link). This is the yarn I’m using. Rewrite the pattern for me.

Game changer!

#BookSky

So deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Andrea Gibson. Their poetry will always be some of my favorites.
Meg is doing an absolutely beautiful job continuing their legacy by writing and sharing about things that don’t suck.

Truly, what do you do with their toothbrush? 💕🙏

#cats

There's no way this is just about "finances," given that they had plenty of finances to bribe Trump. A shame. Colbert is so funny and kind and generous, especially to writers.

Why are we always more fearful of kids “falling behind” the latest tech than being its guinea pigs? Why do we listen to tech companies when designing our schools? Why don’t we pay teachers more? All these questions are connected

Our Staff Recs wall is especially colorful right now. We love it!

Stop in to grab one of these amazing books personally read, vetted, loved, and recommended by our hardworking staff.

#books
#booksky

As usual, big business plans to use schools and kids as guinea pigs to push their agendas and make money.

Stop pushing AI on teachers. Research shows time and time again that best practices and good teaching are never about a program or a specific tech tool.
Let. Teachers. Just. Teach.

A matted piece of artwork made from crocheted circles in varying sizes and colors. The circles are arranged in a gradient of cobalt, royal blue, teal, turquoise and aqua. The gradient spirals from right to left to make the shape of a curling wave. Some of the pieces are flat circles and others are three dimensional shapes like round tubes or vessels.

A matted piece of artwork made from crocheted circles in varying sizes and colors. The circles are arranged in a gradient of golden yellow, orange, red, mulberry, and violet. The gradient radiates outward from yellow in the center to deep violet around the edges. Some of the pieces are flat circles and others are three dimensional shapes like round tubes or vessels.

A matted piece of artwork made from crocheted circles in varying sizes and colors. The circles are arranged in a gradient of emerald green, leaf green, spring green, pale yellow-green and butter yellow. The gradient descends downward from emerald at the top to yellow at the bottom. Some of the pieces are flat circles and others are three dimensional shapes like round tubes or vessels. There are a few small dark pink and red circles and bits of white interspersed to suggest flowers.

New crochet series finished! 🧶 Wave, Sunset, Meadow

Coral reef? Seed pods? Alien blobs? It’s in the eye of the beholder. I just wanted to play with color gradients.

Each piece is 5x5”, made of 150-200 individual elements, crocheted from embroidery thread on a 1.25
mm hook and sewn onto canvas.

I could spend days bathing in this graphic. Days.

I love—em-dashes.

Here to follow authors, keep tabs on new great books to hook middle school and high school students, and get great teaching tips.

Currently reading: The Song of Achilles. I'm on page 58 and HOOKED. 💛

How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time Young people might be responding to a cultural message: Reading just isn’t that important.

Interesting take on why many students have stopped reading. The clear way to ignite regular, engaged reading is known by teachers: time in school to read at their own pace, choice in what they read, & access to many, many books.

It’s about love…what we love to read is as individual as we are. ❤️

Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn’t Matter Stories stimulate the brain in the same way, regardless of whether they're read or heard.

I shared this article in Wisconsin last week... AMAZING, right? I listen to several books a month now because of my commute to campus, and I've come to love being read to. How about you? #booklove

In J vs. K by Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft, both J & K are determined to win a storytelling contest at school, leading to an intense & humor filled rivalry. This collaboration between 2 middle grade faves focusing on themes of competition & creativity will have readers laughing & learning. #MGLit