James Blasingame

Executive Director Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@buttigiegwins @dcunningham54 I drove up to a ranch near Sedona, Arizona, on Wednesday to get a rescue dog. When I got off Interstate 17 to take a secondary road, I was surprised to see about 15 charging stations. It is happening!

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@dcunningham54 Yes, We love Mark Kelly. I had not thought about a Mark Kelly presidency. What a great idea!!!

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@billkonigsberg Tres bien!

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@dcunningham54 Like Dave Cunningham, mine was beating Iowa. The West Gym was insane!!!

[Ed Finn @zonal]

Honored and delighted to introduce our former student and debut author @reallenanguyen at @changinghands tonight! Go Lena! Being interviewed by the most excellent Dr. James Blasingame.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@billkonigsberg Tres bien!

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@sabrinakenoun @Cronkite_ASU @asuEnglish @Shaya_in_LA Thanks for being a superstar, Sabrina, and keep us posted on your successes! Don't forget the promise to come back and tell my class how you did it!!!

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

Simon Ortiz is performing the opening poem as NCTE begins and providing historical context for Indigenous People's History Month.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@billkonigsberg You said something I thought was brilliant about how you understand and express an issue/topic. Something like: I start with myself and move outward. You expressed it more eloquently. What did you say?

[Scholastic @Scholastic]

Congratulations to @billkonigsberg on this starred review from @PublishersWkly! ✨ #TheBridge is a powerful, life-affirming book about the impact of depression and "the gifts of human connection". Start reading: https://t.co/2dZXGEoUqI

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@gksparker @ALANorg @ncte It was in Chicago in 1996, and I was so surprised that people could come in person to person contact with living authors!!!

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@gksparker @ALANorg @ncte Kathy Deakin, Laura Brown and I wrote a book about John Green, who has not been to ALAN or NCTE in a long time. He will be getting the ALAN Award at our ALAN breakfast and delivering a speech. I am also looking forward to seeing him.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@gksparker @ALANorg @ncte Q7: It was in Chicago in 1996, and I was so surprised that people could come in person to person contact with living authors!!!

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@JoKnowles @ALANorg Facebook, mostly.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@MrsBoisvert @ALANorg Christopher Paul Curtis, back 20 years or so ago, he was the keynote speaker for the ALAN Breakfast, and he bought every person in the room a membership to ALAN if they did not already have one.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@gksparker @ALANorg @ncte If I don’t know them, I look at their nametag and try to think of something about their home state or town that I know. Then I ask who their young readers are reading lately. I get emails and become Facebook friends.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@gksparker @ALANorg @ncte I keep a cart of 300 or so that I push to class every day. I have shelves of hundreds more at home, and thousands more in two ASU offices. Nevertheless, twice a year I have to give books away by the hundreds to teachers, librarians and aspiring teacher.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@gksparker @ALANorg @ncte Christopher Paul Curtis, back 20 years or so ago, he was the keynote speaker for the ALAN Breakfast, and he bought every person in the room a membership to ALAN if they did not already have one.

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@gksparker @ALANorg @ncte Jim Blasingame: I am the Executive Director of ALAN, and I have also been ALAN President and coeditor of The ALAN Review
How many ALAN Workshops have you attended?
24

[James Blasingame @DRJBlasingame]

@ALANorg Don’t be shy. Walk right up to people you would like to meet, stick out your hand, and say, “Hello, Mr. Mendez, I am Juana Flores from Buckeye, Arizona, I teach 9th grade, and my kids and I love your book Missing Nearly Everything.”