pamallyn

Author. Speaker. Founder. Maker of things to help children learn and grow.

[pamallyn @pamallyn]

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2026 Literacy is the pen that makes it possible for women and girls to author the lives they hope for and dream of! Consider a contribution to @litworldsays today to help us in our quest to make sure every woman and girl has access to it!

[LitWorld @litworldsays]

Our Founding Director @pamallyn was quoted by NYT-bestselling author Louise Penny! Thank you Louise for the shout-out, and for spreading the message that reading is breathing in, and writing is breathing out! 🧡

[pamallyn @pamallyn]

@havivrettiggur This is horrifying.

[pamallyn @pamallyn]

“Free expression and challenging authority” unless it actually is something they themselves would need to sacrifice on a daily basis. And what happened to all the climate change student activists? Once they found out Israel is the region’s leader in addressing climate change in real and innovative ways, it became unimportant to them.

[pamallyn @pamallyn]

Writing Is Fundamental to How We Think https://t.co/zJDRrdjPeY via @NYTOpinion

[Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo]

This is what humans do. We are humans.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Happy #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth! Join us this May as we honor and celebrate our Jewish American friends and neighbors in our communities.💛💚

[pamallyn @pamallyn]

The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters https://t.co/joa0FGlkRe via @NYTimes

[Monica Burns, Ed.D #EdTech #ISTELive #ASCDAnnual @ClassTechTips]

😍 It’s #WorldStorytellingDay

⚡ Jump into this episode on why literacy still matters in the age of AI—and how reading, storytelling, and critical thinking help students make meaning in a tech-driven world. @pamallyn shares powerful insights on centering joy, humanity, and stories in learning

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/Dl4hGLVFpP @litworldsays

[Monica Burns, Ed.D #EdTech #ISTELive #ASCDAnnual @ClassTechTips]

🎧 Listen now for a Read Across America Day reflection:

In this episode with @pamallyn of @litworldsays, we explore how strong literacy helps students question, comprehend, and make sense of AI-generated content—centering joy and humanity 💡

👉 Tune in here: https://t.co/Dl4hGLVFpP

#AI #K12

[Jaikaran @drakmog]

a 25 year longitudinal study by Evans et al. (2010) across 27 nations found that growing up in a home with books was as powerful a predictor of educational attainment as having university educated parents. the number of books in the home predicted years of schooling completed, independent of family wealth, parent education, or country. the effect was strongest for children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. going from zero books to a small personal library of about 20 books was associated with an additional 3.2 years of education. the mechanism is not the books themselves. it is the culture they represent. a home with books signals that reading and learning are valued. audio story libraries function the same way. when a family invests in a learning platform, they signal to their children that knowledge matters. the medium changes. the message does not. access to stories is access to opportunity. #parenting #reading #literacy #k12 #familylearning

[pamallyn @pamallyn]

@drakmog Yes! I’d love to talk more! I am the creator of #worldreadaloudday and would love for you to join with me in the fun of that!

[Monica Burns, Ed.D #EdTech #ISTELive #ASCDAnnual @ClassTechTips]

🙌 Will you celebrate #WorldStorytellingDay with us?

👉 This episode explores:
✅ why literacy still matters in the age of AI
✅ how stories build critical thinking & comprehension
✅ ways reading supports joy and humanity in learning

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/Dl4hGLVFpP

@pamallyn @litworldsays

[LitWorld @litworldsays]

We are immensely grateful to the Morrell Family for designating LitWorld as a place to commemorate Dr. Morrell through the Dr. Ernest Morrell's Legacy of Love and Literacy Fund. Donations to honor Dr. Morrell's legacy can be made year-round on our page: https://t.co/1PUQOUZAbj

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

🇮🇷 47 years ago, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and hearing the chants that would steal my country. I didn’t have words for what was happening. Today, I am watching smoke rise over the same city — but this time the smoke is not the end of Iran. It is, God willing, the beginning of her resurrection.

Several weeks ago I wrote in that the fever of 1979 was finally breaking. I never imagined I would wake up to see that fever confronted so directly. Israel — with the clear support of the United States — has launched a preemptive strike deep into Tehran and against the regime’s military machinery. Explosions in the capital. Military targets hit. The IRGC’s aura of invincibility, already cracked, is shattering in real time.

I do not celebrate war. No decent person does. What I celebrate — what millions of Iranians inside the country and in the diaspora have prayed for in secret for decades — is the possibility that a regime which has no right to exist may finally be forced to go.

This is the same regime that:
- Armed and cheered the October 7 massacre against Israel for no reason other than pure genocidal hatred.
- Murdered tens of thousands of its own sons and daughters who dared to walk peacefully in the streets demanding the most basic freedoms.
- Gouges out the eyes of young women for the “crime” of wearing makeup.
- Hangs teenagers from cranes for posting a tweet.
- Exports terror, poverty, and darkness to every corner it can reach including the U.S.

No nation, no people, should have to live under that. Not Israelis. Not Americans. Not Lebanese. Not Syrians. And certainly not Iranians.

I am a physician who has spent his life trying to heal bodies and a son of Iran who has spent his life mourning a stolen homeland. What we are witnessing is not aggression — it is surgery. Painful, necessary surgery to remove a tumor that has metastasized for 47 years. The tumor is the Islamic Republic that has hijacked Iran.

To the brave pilots and special operators of the Israeli Air Force and the men and women of the United States military now carrying out this mission: I pray for you with everything I have.

May God shield you from harm. May every missile find its target and every soldier return home safely to the families who love them. You are not invaders. You are the answer to the prayers of millions who have whispered “enough” in the dark since 1979. You are giving our friends the chance to breathe free air again. The entire region will owe you a peace we have not known in my lifetime.

To my fellow Iranians watching from inside the country right now, heart pounding, maybe hiding in basements or on rooftops: Hold on. The end is clearer than it has ever been. The regime’s fear is real. Their eyes — those same eyes that once stared down at us with absolute power — now show something they haven’t shown in decades: panic. The math has changed. The window of 1979 is finally closing.

To the little three-year-old boy I once was — and to every little boy and girl in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz today who hears explosions instead of lullabies: This time the sounds are not the closing of a door. They are the opening of one.

The road ahead will not be easy. Transitions never are. But the direction is unmistakable. A secular, prosperous, free Iran is no longer a dream — it is becoming an inevitability.

I have lived the stolen life so that others might not have to. Today, for the first time in 47 years, I allow myself to believe that the stealing is almost over.

Thank you, Israel. Thank you, America. The Iranian people — the real Iran — will never forget.

The fever is breaking.
The dawn of 2026 is here.
And this time, the light wins.

🇮🇷❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

[LitWorld @litworldsays]

WRAD is such a family affair at LitWorld, even the parents get involved! Here is founding director @pamallyn's mom, Anne, sitting down to read aloud to a classroom at @portchesterufsd. 🧡 When it comes to reading aloud, the whole family is united under the same mission!

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Obituary for Ernest Davis Morrell II | Kaniewski Funeral Homes, Inc. and with deep thanks to the Morrell family for directing donations in memory of Ernest to LitWorld. May his legacy be a blessing for always. https://t.co/XRFfL6P51x

[Jaikaran @drakmog]

@litworldsays @pamallyn @DOEChancellor This is what leadership in literacy looks like. When the Chancellor of the largest school system in the country reads aloud alongside @pamallyn, it sends a powerful message — reading isn't just academics, it's connection. 16 years of impact is extraordinary. #Literacy #ReadAloud

[Jaikaran @drakmog]

@ClassTechTips @pamallyn @litworldsays adding this now. protecting joy in reading is so important — too many kids lose the spark once it becomes all about assessment. love that @pamallyn focuses on purpose alongside skill-building