Alison Hamel

I read. I write. I think. I laugh. I teach!

[Jarrett Lerner @Jarrett_Lerner]

EDUCATORS and LIBRARIANS!

Want to greet your new students with new books?!

I’ve got about 120 elementary and Middle Grade books to give away—half here, half on Instagram.

To enter to win half here: follow me and RT this tweet.

Bonus entry: tag a pal who may want to enter too!

[Summer Rachel Short @Summer_Rachel_]

In honor of spooky season, 🎃I'm giving away 5 signed paperbacks of my lightly-spooky #mglit novel, The Mutant Mushroom Takeover, plus some fun bookish swag!

To enter, follow & RT by 10/18! Tag friends for extra entries!

U.S. only.🍄🍄🍄

[Carol Jago @CarolJago]

Students with the largest vocabularies aren’t the ones with the most flashcards.

They’re your readers.

[Irin Carmon @irin]

I asked: When the time comes, what would you like to be remembered for?
"Someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has."

[Alison Hamel @alisonhamel]

@AlexRowell A week is optimistic. Someone I know in Valdosta just got results back after 14 days. No idea how we’ll find subs if teachers have to be out that long!

[Medscape @Medscape]

Masks are not a belief system. You’re just blatantly ignoring scientific evidence.
https://t.co/RUh4GdRZNb

[Rebecca Traister @rtraister]

Passive voice is for when the state does violence. Active voice is for when a protester does? Got it.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Michelle and I want to do our part to give all you parents a break today, so we’re reading “The Word Collector” for @chipublib. It’s a fun book that vividly illustrates the transformative power of words––and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Watch this. It shows why we should all do the right thing and stay home to the fullest extent possible. All of us can help slow the spread of the virus, protecting the elderly, the vulnerable, and each other. https://t.co/FgffQrMVB7

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

You never give up on someone else, because that’s what being a teacher is all about. #CNNTownHall

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Every so often, I re-read Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. While some of the injustices may have changed, his poetic brilliance, moral clarity, and tests of conscience still reverberate today. Take a moment to reflect on his righteous call: https://t.co/oBdqFqdWA6

[Kelly Gallagher @KellyGToGo]

@CarolJago Which raises the key question: How do we get kids to read more? Hint: it’s not through worksheets, packet work, and quizzes.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

For those looking up punctuation early on a Friday morning:

A hyphen is a mark - used to divide or to compound words.
An apostrophe is a mark ' used to indicate the omission of letters or figures.

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Who else is fired up that college football is back? #GoGators

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

-Maya Angelou

[Alison Hamel @alisonhamel]

@jarowell Thank you for always doing this for me! #createdanenglishteacher

[Kylene Beers @KyleneBeers]

A principal recently told me that some parents don't want their kids "just reading" while at school. He asked what research he could share to show those parents that "just reading" has ACADEMIC benefits. Here it the chart I shared. #DisruptingThinking

[National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) @ncte]

"Literature is life. When we read imaginative literature—whether prose, poetry or drama—we explore what it means to be alive and to be human. As one of my students remarked years ago, ‘Literature humanizes us.’" @danahmaloney #MondayMotivation https://t.co/D2KlxKTOvm

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'newspeak' https://t.co/rttXsic7d5