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Lauren Whitney (she/her) is querying!
@laurenem6.bsky.social
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Mom of two, #kidlit writer, elementary school librarian, movie-lover, crazy LEGO lady
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How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age via @conversationUS theconversation.com/how-i-rehuma... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI-augmented age
A writer instructor recognizes the role of AI on campus, while elevating social connection and humanity into the college experience.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I keep forgetting to do these #currentlyreading posts, but I promise I am reading! Look for my 2025 reading recap soon!

This is a rare adult read for me, but I've been following Molly for years and I'm excited to read her book!

#amreading
#tlsky
Text reads: Mrs. Whitney is currently reading Image is a photo of the cover of Molly Burke's book Unseen [Molly with her hands on her face and a streak of light across one eye] on a green background with gold decorations.
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Novel Writing Club recap! About half my students finished their word count goals this year. Combined, they wrote over 200,000 words! (That's without my 50,000!) Check out our final progress and some reflections for 2025.

#nanowrimo #notnano #tlsky #novelwritingclub
Image of a rainbow colored bar chart. Text reads: This year, I did a bar chart instead of spelling out NANOWRIMO. I used a different color after each club meeting. I like this way better! Check out all the purple progress over Thanksgiving break! A rainbow pie graph with the title "This is my ____ year doing NaNoWriMo. First 41%, second 32.1%, third 20.5%, fourth (no percent listed, approximately 7%). Text reads: This is interesting data this year. I had a lot of first time participants who were not second graders (first year they're allowed to join). Only 17% of my students were in second grade and 41% were first timers. Text reads: Every year, I ask my Novel Writing Club students to reflect on their experiences. Here are some of my favorite answers to the prompt... I wish: That everyone finished their novel for all the teachers that helped to be safe it was not over I become a real author Novel righting club could go for ever. I can't believe I: it made me happy am in this club. Text reads: Every year, I ask my Novel Writing Club students to reflect on their experiences. Here are some of my favorite answers to the prompt... Anything else you want to tell Mrs. Whitney? Best novel teacher! Novel writing club is the best club i bend to. Thanks for starting a really joyful club can you read us a part of your novel? Thank you for doing this club i really like it I love nanowrimo
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Not my best, but certainly not my worst! Finished this year’s novel A Whole Latke Problems at 50,075 words! It’s my 20th year writing a novel in November! 🥳

#MG #kidlit #nanowrimo #notnanowrimo #iamwritinganovelinnovember
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Very interesting themes emerged from the comments that teens made about the news that 12th-grade reading scores are at a 30-year low
#EduSky #TLSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/l...
What Students Are Saying About the Decline in High School Reading Skills
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Look at my young novelists go! They get a box colored in for each 10% of their word goal they complete. I use a different color for each club meeting so we can see our progress over time!

#nanowrimo #nano2point0 #youngwriters #tlksky #kidlit
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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One day down. Approximately 48,000 words to go!

#nanowrimo #imwritinganovelinnovember
#kidlit
#middlegrade
#amwriting
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I completed all 31 days of #MOCtober

I didn’t have time to commit to a full build, so all of my builds this month were one piece/minifig.

#LEGO #AFOL
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Started novel writing club last week. Today I asked them what their novel would be about. Here's one fourth grader's response.

#nanowrimo #novelwritingclub #tlsky
Text reading: "What is your novel going to be about?" "Nun of yo bee's wax. You'll see later."
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Haven't remembered to do one of these in a while!

Mrs. Whitney is #currentlyreading The Things We Miss by Leah Stecher

#kidlit #tlsky
a forest of trees with a circle in the center that reads "Mrs. Whitney is currently reading..." and the cover image of The Things We Miss by Leah Stecher
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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After being bullied for her smarts AGAIN, Cal goes home to cry in her dad's failed teleporter. But then it actually works. Kinda. She's going to need all her brain power, a little toxic dihydrogen monoxide, and a few new friends if she ever wants to get back home.

#SFpit #MG #SO #Q
A 9 square image. 1. Cauliflower 2. Fire 3. Slug 4. A shower with a periodic table shower curtain 5. Text “the teleporter mishap. MG humorous sci-fi 6. A frying pan with an egg inside 7. Astronaut 8. Satellite dish 9. Text: “Cal was looking for a place to cry. She never thought she’d end up in space.” Text reading “comps” in large letters with cover images of Losers at the Center of the Galaxy, We’re Not From Here, and Trouble in the Stars
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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When a rip in spacetime causes wormholes and other cosmic oddities to start popping up in town, twelve-year-old Mackenzie must balance homework and babysitting with time jumping squirrels—and keep her loved ones safe, no matter the cost.

#SciFiPit #SFPit #MG #Epistolary #Q
October 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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1988. Suburbia. Wannabe writer Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a creepy mansion and uncover a dangerous conspiracy, all in one night. #MG #Q #SFPit
Clockwise from top left: The Crystal Shard book cover, a hedge maze, a mansion, the Hellfire Club, a space suit and the suburbs.
October 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Thirteen-year-old Hannah has spent her entire life within the walls of Paradise, safe from those infected by the asteroid.

But a chance meeting with an outsider leaves Hannah changed—in more ways than one—and at risk of losing her loved ones forever.

#SciFiPit #SFPit #MG #NovelInVerse #Q
October 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Imaginative 16yo Mia’s spent 2020 connecting w/ family she’s never met. Bro’s emails drop SF references, convincing her they’re secret aliens

When aliens land & offer a COVID cure, Mia’s sus. She’ll break out of her bubble to learn if they’re here to serve man or “To Serve Man”

#SFPit #YA #novella
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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An 11-year-old girl science prodigy and a slug-like alien accidentally swap places in a teleporter mishap and will team up to stop a smuggler from stealing the only part in the universe that can repair the teleporter, or be permanently stranded in each other’s world.

#SFpit #MG #Q #SO
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Tomorrow #NoKings
A poster by Karen Hallion with an image of Princess Leia with the words "A woman's place is in the rebellion"
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Decided to upgrade my quotes. Five stars for this one ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

#bookquotesIlike #kidlit
A quote from The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman: “We roll out of the empty parking lot. It’s just a parking lot. And the sky is just the sky. But it all feels so perfect, like a drawing wit no mistakes.”
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Anyone else in?
sewnwithliliesfair.bsky.social Rowan Fox 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @sewnwithliliesfair.bsky.social · Oct 8
There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's the return of my beloved Nanowrimo. 🥹
nano2point0.bsky.social NaNo 2.0 @nano2point0.bsky.social · Oct 2
NaNo 2.0 is LIVE. We're so glad you're here, because #NaNoWriMo is only 30 days away. Hope you're ready to write! ✍️ nano2.org #WritingCommunity #NaNo2point0
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I would probably tell my younger self not to burn out and take a 10+ years hiatus. I should have kept querying then, because it was easier in a way. But even if my past self would have listened, I’m a much better writer than I was then.

#kidlitchat
kidlitchat.bsky.social kidlitchat @kidlitchat.bsky.social · Sep 24
TOPIC: What professional or creative advice do you wish you could pass on to your younger self? (And would your younger self listen?!?) #kidlitchat
September 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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@youngteenlit.bsky.social how can I get involved? I’m an elementary school librarian, but I’m also a writer, and I wrote a story perfect for this age group. Young teens have much different reading needs than MG and YA can satisfy.
September 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I haven’t been doing much this past quarter, just a bit of querying. I’ve been sort of lazy, sort of stuck.

I hope to start revising something (thinking of taking a serious low fantasy YA to a funny MG), and I’m still going to write a novel in November even though #nanowrimo is dead.

#kidlitchat
kidlitchat.bsky.social kidlitchat @kidlitchat.bsky.social · Sep 3
TOPIC: It's quarterly check-in time! Share what you want to (or can) about current projects, what you've been doing for the past three months, and what's next! #kidlitchat
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Sharing a couple of bulletin boards for back to school! Ideas not mine

#tlsky
Bulletin board with book pages creating a background for the words “welcome to your next chapter” Bulleting board reading “this library is BETTER because YOU are in it”
September 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
laurenem6.bsky.social
This week I'm doing a PD on ‪@elementari.bsky.social‬. Learning a lot of coding and hope to bring it back to the library and/or my creative writing club!

#infypathfinders #tlsky #edusky
July 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM