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Eric Carpenter

@ericcarpenter.bsky.social

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📚 Elementary school librarian in atlanta, constant reader, occasional wood worker, reluctant book reviewer. 📚 2026 ALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award Committee Chair. 📚 "All reading is reading. Let them read how ever and whatever they want!"

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Nov 18

Five things about me the librarian.

1. My job is to validate every reading choices my students make.
2. I'm on #teamnonfiction
3. I'm on #teamcomics
4. I'm on #teamaudiobooks
5. I'm on #teammiddlegradebooksshouldbewayshorter

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20d

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21d

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in.

Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.

It's like his work never happened.

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 21d

How are typical schools defined? High poverty schools?
What does it say about schools that are 45% high high poverty and 45% affluent?
Students can live in high poverty and attend a school with equal numbers of high poverty and affluent students.

Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · 26d

Also college football players scheduled to appear on ESPN or ABC should not suit up on Saturday. (This would have an immediate impact)

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 28d

One side posted that they don't like white supremacists or Christian nationalists.

The other side is threatening to kill people because they said they don't like white supremacists and Christian nationalists.

Stop pretending domestic terrorists and the people they terrorize are the same.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29d

I hope I can live long enough to see Stephen Miller prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced for his numerous crimes against humanity.

I hope we can all see him sniveling and crying as he's taken to prison.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 10

You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence.

You can do both.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · Sep 10

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Sep 6

Don't worry, it will be between the two of you AND Chronicle.

Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Sep 6

A quick search reveals that Jane Yolen has 168 titles in the database. I think the results are limited to only showing up to 200 titles as Nora Roberts 200, James Patterson 200 and Stephen King 200 show exactly 200 titles. Those three are each due over half a million dollars....

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Witty Librarian Resistance @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

AI is basically a money pit.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Companies have invested billions into AI, 95% getting zero return

Many companies are implementing tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, with over 80% having explored or piloted these technologies.

www.yahoo.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Aug 29

There are four main arguments for AI in education:

1. Efficiency, saving teachers time
2. Equity, making education inclusive
3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning
4. It's inevitable

Is it true?

Nope.

Micro 🧵

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 21

Meanwhile AASL is publishing this trash

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 21

Another example of @aaslala.bsky.social being the most disappointing division of ALA. 🤮

Cover of AASL publication Leveraging AI in School Libraries

Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 14

This book! Get it for your classroom, get it for your library. Get it for your house. I promise you'll never have a more fun and energetic (and loud) read aloud. @northsouthbooks.bsky.social

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Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Science of Reading as a marketing ploy.
www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2025/08/08/e...

Expert Douses Boston Globe’s “Science of Reading” Advocacy

The Boston Globe did another editorial hyping “science of reading” legislation and I don’t know anything about literacy instruction but neither does the Globe so I thought I’d introduce someone who…

www.masspoliticsprofs.org

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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · Aug 7

Once again:

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 7

Librarians and booksellers can download advanced listening copies from @libro.fm (it's like a galley for your ears)

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 3

Take a brilliant where you can get it (still lost the game).

Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 2

Get some day old chicks and shove them underneath her at like 4am she'll think she's a new mom and raise them.

Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 2

Just got the audio today. It's high up in the listening queue.

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 1

August ALCs from @libro.fm are pretty fantastic. A lot to download and listen to!

Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Jul 31

A great companion book is Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals: The Story of the Bill of Rights by @terikanefield.bsky.social
It does for the bill of rights what Fault Lines does for the constitution.

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Eric Carpenter @ericcarpenter.bsky.social · Jul 29

I've found when talking to students (K-5) that the environmental argument is the easiest to grasp. It's way less abstract than the many other reasons AI is the worst. Elementary students are generally horrified to discover how much harm AI does to the earth every time it is used.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.bsky.social · Jul 29

"AI" is IT from A Wrinkle in Time.
"Just give in," the AI pushers say. "We can all be together in this. You don't have to think."

Time to hold onto your inner Meg, friends.

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