My son wanted to collaborate with a peer on his writing—giving and getting digital feedback to improve his work. A blanket rule prevented it, due to past misuse by others. He couldn’t understand why a rule he didn’t break stopped him from learning in a way that made sense to him.

We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?

Please don't tell kids that old "First Thanksgiving" myth and pass it off as actual history. Share books like these this week instead.

1. Go to your local library and fill out request forms.

2. Show up at your local school board meetings. Sign up to speak. Remind them that access to books that are relevant and relatable INCREASES LITERACY, which is literally the job of schools

3. Show up at library board meetings. Same thing.

Nature
the ultimate classroom.
Anchoring restless hearts to earth’s quiet rhythm.
It cradles us in steady roots,
a haven of hope.
It’s gentle power
nurtures wonder and refuge.
A sanctuary where souls
find room to dream.
Like a balm for the weary mind,
it whispers what truly makes us whole.

Teachers, librarians, & homeschoolers!

If you pre-order my new MG novel in verse THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES from my local indie, you'll also get my FREE virtual author-in-residence program for National Poetry Month, with 4 on-demand virtual poetry workshops & an invitation to a live Zoom Q&A! (1/2)

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

It’s a scary time to be a Texas educator and parent. I can’t begin to imagine what content will be replaced, the funding loss for those not using it, & the families left out of the conversation. What can we do? How can we make change? What does advocacy look like now?

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