Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT

K-5 teacher librarian, former 2nd grade teacher, National Board Certified Teacher, Oakland County Reading Council President, reader, writer, wife and Mom!

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

These Lakers (and their families) had a great time at our first Doherty Book of the Month Club! 🤖🌳We loved spending time with Roz, The Wild Robot!! @wbloomfieldschl

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

We had a great year of reading in the Doherty library! We grew our hearts and connected through stories! 📚💖#OnlyWB

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

Nothing better than spreading the book love in the library! 😍📚#OnlyWB

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

We rolled out the red carpet for the amazing @supriyakelkar_ ! We loved reading her books and growing our hearts together in the library! Thank you @westbloomlib for making this visit possible and supporting our readers! #OnlyWB @wbloomfieldschl

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

Thank you @wbloomfieldschl for supporting our professional learning at Diversity in Literature Symposium! @MissPatterson00

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

Readers “tasted” so many delicious books at our Book Cafe today! We took sneak peeks of all of our Pine Cone books! Thank you @westbloomlib for your collaboration and making this program possible! #OnlyWB

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

Continuing our Mock Caldecott journey in the library! Readers are creating magnet poetry and their own crown to celebrate Langston! They are going to be so excited when they find out this book is an award winner!! #OnlyWB

[John Schu @MrSchuReads]

"School libraries are a vital resource, so when I hear of schools with no full-time librarian - and sometimes, no librarian at all - I’m bewildered. It’s like they’re asking students to walk through a dense and vast forest without a guide." - @jcostabates https://t.co/Jl9eMcrVCU

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

Young author hard at work tonight after we read “I’m From” in our school library today! Thank you for creating such a gem! @GaryRGrayJr @ogemora ❤️📚📓

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

We are so thankful for our amazing partnership with the @westbloomlib! Doherty kindergartners all took a field trip to the library! We had a great tour and learned about our K100 books program! #raisingreaders #OnlyWB @SpitzleyDoherty @wbloomfieldschl

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

Our Doherty Mock Caldecott journey has started!! @CarinBerger #OnlyWB

[Nell K. Duke @nellkduke]

Children's brain activity looks different whether they are reading narrative or informational text--no surprise that classroom research suggests our instruction for these genres should be different too (e.g., purposes established for reading, text structures taught, ?s asked...)

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

We are having so much fun launching our Mock Caldecott unit! Readers are also making books. One artist awarded himself the Caldecott medal on his latest creation! ❤️📚#OnlyWB

[John Schu @MrSchuReads]

Happy Picture Book Month! I love picture books. I collect them. I share them. I write them. Our students are never too old to be read aloud a picture book or to read aloud a picture book. https://t.co/adP5CByAQc

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

@MrSchuReads @studiocastillo So sorry for your loss, John! ❤️

[Wendy Beitel @RCSLitCoach]

InfoGraphic on the Science of Reading from the National Center for Improving Literacy

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

Kindergarteners practice reading the pictures to special fuzzy buddies! Visual literacy is so important! ❤️📚#OnlyWB

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

“The library should promote free, open, and equitable access to books for all students. Yes, life can be unfair. Our students will have plenty of opportunities to learn that. They don’t have to learn it in the library.” ⁦⁦@sljournal⁩ https://t.co/DEcNkdLxdq

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

@jodieogrady @kelseybogan One more time for the people in the back! 👏🏻

[Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT @colmestdagh]

These readers are making a plan for their reading life! 📖 #OnlyWB @SpitzleyDoherty