School Librarian, Google Educator
Joined March 2013
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3 Nov 2023
Generated this beautiful literary wombat using AI at the Tech & Learning Summit today in Naperville!@techlearning #tltechlive
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27 Apr 2019
Getting ready for CPS Battle of the Books! Can’t wait to greet all of our citywide competitors!
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22 Feb 2019
Learning to play Happy Salmon with Librarians at our #ctla meeting @AISLEd_org
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19 Feb 2019
"School libraries are necessary. It is necessary to have a physical space dedicated to exploration and imagination." -@ChelseaClinton mrschureads.blogspot.com/201…
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20 Feb 2019
I was challenged by @EGHSJapanese to post 7 covers of 7 books that I love. No explanations, no reviews. I'll challenge someone else each day to post 1 cover per day for a week.
This is day 1 of 7. I challenge @CpsLibraries.
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18 Feb 2019
Chicago’s West Side gets first regional library in 40 years chicago.curbed.com/2019/2/7/… via @CurbedChicago
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5 Feb 2019
@ChicagosMayor and I are excited to announce a new summer reading initiative that will be in 50 schools! #Literacy prepares students for success and this is another one of my visions for the district.
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5 Feb 2019
The Summer Reading Initiative builds on the success of @ChiPubLib’s #RahmsReaders Summer Learning Challenge, which last summer engaged more than 110,000 students who read more than 108 million minutes & completed more than 1.3 million learning activities.
bit.ly/CPSSummerReading
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5 Feb 2019
📚Approximately 8,500 books will be provided to students free of charge before the school year ends at the 50 @ChiPubSchools participating in the 1st year of the program. 📚
bit.ly/CPSSummerReading
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5 Feb 2019
After the #PolarVortex19, @ChiPubSchools has summer on its mind! Starting this year, 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade teachers will assign contemporary, culturally relevant summer reading assignments to incoming students. 📚📖 #RahmsReaders
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5 Feb 2019
Lots of love and learning with the 3rd graders of Brown Elementary School before our Summer reading initiative announcement. #CutenessOverload #RahmsReaders 📖📚
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11 Jan 2019
One teacher shares how having her students read along with audiobooks can change a student's entire belief system about reading. (via @edutopia) edut.to/2QzRIgp
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8 Jan 2019
Thank you @ChicagosMayor @ChiPubSchools @janicejackson and so many others. #Dore Elementary had the best 1st day back from winter break ever!
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15 Dec 2018
Top 10 Graphic Novels | 2018 - This year’s list of the 10 best graphic novels for young people proves how the format has blossomed in recent years. By @BrigidAlverson & the Good Comics for Kids crew ow.ly/V8zI30n06MQ Most popular stories, SLJ
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12 Dec 2018
Access to information is crucial to college and career readiness and is a matter of equity
12 Dec 2018
On information privilege and information equity blogs.slj.com/neverendingsea… - This is a great read on the conditions for information equity! #libraries
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5 Dec 2018
Join us tomorrow for a free webcast: “Digital Equity: You Can Help Level the Playing Field in Schools and Libraries”. 3 pm ET/12 pm PT with @NicolRHoward & School Lib of the Year 2018 honorees @AliSchilpp @MrsLibrarianLee #SLJISTE ow.ly/7f8a30mBJI7 @iste
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29 Nov 2018
News Lit Camp today with educators from around the country, including CPS librarians @NewsLitProject @MrSilva @NavyPier
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28 Nov 2018
CPL Best of the Best Books 2018 - Chicago Public Library chipublib.org/?p=570236 via @chipublib
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14 Nov 2018
It's 2018... digital skills are not touching a mouse and word processing. Can they edit video? Do they know keyboard shortcuts
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