WNDB is thrilled to announce that it has become a fiscal sponsor of @PocPub, a grassroots organization created by book publishing professionals dedicated to supporting racially and ethnically marginalized members in the publishing industry. https://t.co/dcgou0CBgz
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I will be on Reddit r/books today, Monday at 9am Pacific / 12noon Eastern for an AMA.
If you have any questions you want to ask me about anything... books, characters, stories, now's your chance!
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Before a book becomes a novel, it is messy piles of drafts and sticky notes and confusion. It’s not easy. And it takes hours and hours each day. The result, I hope, will be something everyone wants to read! Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at Out of My Heart, out this fall!
By looking through the lens of neuroscience, Hammond helps us understand why many students simply haven’t responded to the kinds of interventions many schools put in place for them.
@Ready4Rigor#brainbasedlearning#culturallyresponsiveteaching
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We Need Diverse Books will no longer use the term #OwnVoices to refer to children’s literature or its authors. Moving forward, WNDB will use specific descriptions that authors use for themselves and their characters. https://t.co/TFAqNd6oXi
"I prefer stories [where] we are already people. And we don’t have to explain our humanity. And we’re going through the same thing that any other person would go through, but heightened because of our cultural specificity and experience." https://t.co/E6bXIf8oDY
Women revolutionaries, noisemakers, and trailblazers are here to inspire our readers to continue to finish the fight.
Check out these great reads and many more in the
CMS Mary A. Manning Learning Commons library collection.
Book giveaway - THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END by @AdamSilvera. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #2 NYTimes YA PB!
The project also yielded a book, Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles, "which contain lesson plans, puzzles and activities, and other insights for parents and teachers to embrace." https://t.co/fxze47yjUr
Just before #SuperBowlLV kickoff, presidential inaugural poet @TheAmandaGorman delivered an original poem honoring front-line workers who have served during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read her full poem: 👇❤️
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"Students of colour — and all people of colour — can see their stories represented authentically and unapologetically and written by authors who understand those experiences," the Latino-Canadian teen told CBC Radio's Edmonton AM. https://t.co/NqHCJ2qeKH