Colleen Ahearn

K-5 Library-Media Specialist | #bcpslms | Tech Integration Guru | Coder | Learner | Reader | Writer | Explorer |

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

I’ve been good at wearing my #LibrarianTShirtFriday every week this year, but not at sharing…can’t resist today’s though…it may not be book related, but it was 👌🏼as I start letting Ss know about a little reader coming this March 📚🤓👶🏼 #bcpslms @BCPSLMP @StoneleighES

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

Such a powerful perspective of what equity truly means…”equity is not something we do…it’s a way of being” - @accordin2jo #mcpc #teambcps @BaltCoPS @StoneleighES

[Dundalk Middle School @DundalkOwlsBCPS]

Amazing opening performance #MCPC2022 🥁 @TheMCPC

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

Excited to have the opportunity to hear @accordin2jo speak at @TheMCPC this morning! #mcpc2022 #bcpslms @StoneleighES

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

It’s always an honor to get to share with new LMS to help support them as they start on their library media journey! #bcpslms @StoneleighES

[BCPS LMP @BCPSLMP]

Our new Elementary LMS dig deeper into our BCPS Digital Tools & Curriculum with our Library Leadership Council members @ditchingdewey & @BGELibrary! #bcpslms

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

@heymrsbond “The Girl With the Louding Voice” by @abidare_author

[We Need Diverse Books @diversebooks]

✨🌈 Announcing our Support LGBTQIA+ Youth campaign! ✨🌈

We're teaming up with the kidlit community to send care packages—each with a copy of a book centering LGBTQIA+ characters—to LGBTQIA+ youth in states like Texas and Florida.

To help, donate here: https://t.co/VgJSZXnjzZ

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

Ramadan starts today…here are a few of my favorite elementary aged books that celebrate, or center around, Ramadan and Eid by #ownvoices authors. What favorites of yours should I add to my list? #bcpslms @StoneleighES @BCPSLMP

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

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[Aamber Hickman @aytpicalwealth]

This is one of the most surprising and meaningful assignments I’ve ever given. Morale was running at an all-time low. I had my HS students write a certificate of achievement to themselves - For whatever they wanted. The results? #education #teachertwitter

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

*these

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

This. I tell colleagues and parents this *all*the*time*. There are SO MANY amazing picture books that are current and accurately reflect the language and life our kiddos are actually living. And don’t get me started on the phenomenol artwork in this books 😍😍

[Rebecca Sherman @RebeccAgent]

We are in a golden age of picture books and no one knows it because everyone buys the books that were read to them as kids and the only new picture books getting media attention are celebrity books and so everyone buys the books read to them as kids.

[Ashley Hawkins @mangalibrarian.bsky.social @manga_librarian]

Imagine if school librarians could work together to create a new cataloging system that worked for education and completely tossed Dewey in the garbage? And it was work that was supported and funded?

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

@L_D_Washington I still remember how it felt to finish a standardized test and have to then sit and do *nothing*- it was traumatic enough to my adhd brain that I can still feel those moments/feelings 20+ years later just by thinking about it. It hurts my heart that it hasn’t changed

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

Gr 1 Ss are working hard are final drafts so we can publish our stories- so proud of their perseverance while fixing edits! #bcpslms #growingwriters @BCPSLMP @StoneleighES

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

@AmberCook_ I feel you…I almost gave up on this one

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[SchoolLibraryJournal @sljournal]

A recent CBS News/YouGov poll showed Americans do not support removing books about race from schools and believe that students should be taught the history of race and racism in the US. https://t.co/DYUUgfy4of

[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

This was a lucky third guess

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[Colleen Ahearn @ditchingdewey]

My guesses today made for some nice symmetry

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