Sally Kimmes

Library Media Specialist, knitter extraordinaire, wife & mother (extraordinaire!)

[Fake Library Statistics @FakeLibStats]

The best way to find a librarian in a crowd is to yell, “Take a look” because we’re required to yell back, “It’s in a book!”

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

@colbysharp It exists?!!? For real??!? Student have been asking me for this for YEARS!

(Quickly reshuffles final book order of the year....)

[Abbott Elementary @AbbottElemABC]

Wise words of Mrs. Barbara Howard. ❤️ #AbbottElementary

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

@shalahowell @kelseybogan @MontereyAq Absolutely stealing this idea for tomorrow...my last day before spring break!

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

Ready for a Villa win! #MyPLMorning @britspubmpls

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Hearing @lizzo play some of the Library's priceless antique instruments on Monday was such a gift, and we were honored and happy to help her share that gift with her concert audience Tuesday night. Here is some more behind-the-scenes footage of her Library tour. #LizzoAtLOC

[Jennifer Powell @Ace_Librarian7]

…because I want my students to understand that they can learn about other people’s experiences by reading fiction.

And if they relate to a character in a fiction book, that doesn’t mean they are fake. Because people in fiction stories also exist in real life.

[Jennifer Powell @Ace_Librarian7]

I have made it my mission to unteach children that “fiction is fake.”

Here are my new definitions I started teaching today:

▪️Nonfiction = learning through information

▫️Fiction = learning through imagination

…

[I'm on IG, Threads -@sonjacherrypaul @SonjaCherryPaul]

As we prepare to welcome students back to school, in what ways are we working with intention to create spaces that are identity-inspiring and not identity-silencing? @RedClayEd

[Reading Rainbow Live @RRainbowLive]

Sharing this awesome READING ALOUD TO KIDS post from our friend Jarrett Lerner @Jarrett_Lerner Check out his amazing books + activities at https://t.co/XvT7Xz4Ddh

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

@librarianprblms Or tell you they don't want to do anything different than they have been doing so they will just deal with the problem instead of learn a new way that works.

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

@teachingmissk Last year Osseo offered bi-weekly testing. This year that is not being offered. Apparently schools are magical places where covid will not enter ... Or if it does no one gets sick.

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

@librarianprblms Or better (?) yet...duct tape.

[Book Riot @BookRiot]

"That’s right: the bedrock cataloging system that you learned in elementary school has a major racism issue." https://t.co/r4ExvCpTft

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

I needed this reminder today!

[DECAKnightsLibrary @DecaLibrary]

Loved this quote from Jason Reynolds: “Librarians are the rebels of the school. They realize that everything belongs on the shelf, even if they don’t agree with it…I would argue that librarians are working as anti-racists. It’s embedded into who you are as librarians.”

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

"Kids are our comrades. Change the narrative." Ki Gross, Woke Kindergarten #cbce21

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

"...somehow we weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished"

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

WATCH: Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, recites a poem on unity in the U.S. at #Inauguration2021

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

@TchKimPossible @nytimesbooks @FrugalBookstore I am in love with all things Nic Stone!@getnicced

[Sally Kimmes @Sallychka]

@pernilleripp I wholeheartedly agree! Stunning!!!