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Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: January 11: #ReadAloud Classics and Diverse Classroom Libraries

January 11, 2019

TwitterLinksHere are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics for this short week (I also had a post on Monday with links from over the holidays) include #BookLists, #EdPolicy, #focus, #GenderDifferences, #GraphicNovels, #HistoricalNovels, #KidLitCon, #learning, #LearningStyles, #literacy, #ReadAloud, #reading, #SchoolChoice, #STEM, #testing, #writing, schools and teachers.

Book Lists

ParentTrapBest Classic Books - You Haven't Read Yet! Another from | Love inclusion of

8 Featuring - from + more

Weird, Creepy, and Occultic Fixated Male Lead Characters, identifies a new micro-niche

Found a couple of new to add to my daughter's wish list here: (Some of the) Best MG of 2018: , Ep. 67 https://t.co/5j6I01OPg3

Diversity + Gender

“Boy/Girl Books:” Fighting Stereotypes While Honoring + not ignoring differences in what kids want | "a more benefited all my students"

Events, Programs + Research

KIDLIT_con_poster_final_web_smLook Who’s Coming to - March 22-23 –

Study Confirms The Power Of – Are Calmed By Putting Them Into Words – https://t.co/H0oB6FzSyv

New paper Night-time screen-based media device use associated w/ risk of poor results for adolescents' sleep and health-related quality of life

Growing Bookworms

I LOVE this call from for families to set aside (Joy of Missing Out) time and have everyone lie around + (w/ free , no devices + no parents sneaking in work) https://t.co/wRoXnuULiF

This is cool: Illinois using giant murals to encourage - | Another painted lockers like + https://t.co/bzY1hCP082

On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing

Historical-fiction-for-the-school-libraryThe past is the future - a look at benefits of for kids - by Dawn Finch

Interesting discussion question from Terry | Is an achievement (look! I read 156 books!) or an experience? | I worry that I've tilted a bit towards reading to learn things and away from myself...

The 10th Annual Mrs. P Be-a-Famous Writer Judges Choices are Announced! Meet the Honored Classrooms! -

! Life-saving AND awesome | Book shields woman during deadly shooting

CharlottesWebHarperCollins Launches Children's Book , monthly + dedicated to classic + contemporary

Parenting

Sad truth here: There is no room for ‘average’ students these days says | " has become a high-stakes Rube Goldberg machine, propelling our kids from one to the next with no end in sight." https://t.co/mqlZvNbICi

Personal Development + Learning

How to Do Great Things | shares highlights from Richard Hamming's book about | I am personally working on , discussed in the post

Schools and Libraries

Should Fewer Black Receive Services? Were there ever racist placements? Guest post from former principal https://t.co/rvrhReoDAH

Instruction: How Can We Offer Experiences Instead of "Stuff" – https://t.co/6XQz7RclHM

Design with Care: Information Displays Can Impact Ira Nichols-Barrer, Steve Glazerman and Jon Valant

WhyDontStudentsLikeSchoolIn debate, it's instructors (many in favor) vs. psychologists (mostly debunking), but interviews suggest some common ground | [w/ quotes from @DTWillingham)

I was pleased to see this in my local paper today: Foundation aims to inspire

Why Are Leaving Their Jobs? Chester E. Finn, Jr. identifies 5 examples "of the industry’s conspicuous failure to anticipate and forestall the HR woes"

Feel Like Things Are Being Done To Them, Not With Them. They trust each other, not "a growing array of institutions + organizations"

STEM

The problem with high-stakes and women in - | Could it be ? |

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