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Oona Marie Abrams

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Lead Literacy Learner. Collector of words. Doctoral candidate. Lover of all modes and genres of reading and writing. #ThesisoftheWeek #Freadom #WriteBesideThem https://poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/introducing-thesis-of-week-for-2025.html

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · Sep 1

Launching a resource that I hope helps ELA teachers! Thesis of the Week = low-risk formative literary analysis practice. Weekly poems & practice w/ thesis statements are NOT for a formal grade, but intended to grow students' writing efficacy. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Introducing Thesis of the Week for the 2025-2026 School Year

I've created Thesis of the Week as a resource for teachers to utilize as they wish. It is intended to offer students low-risk practice oppo...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 8h

The latest #ThesisoftheWeek has been posted on my Poetry as Practice blog. This week's stimulus text is "Bread" by Richard Levine. Use and share if you would like! poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 18h

Job perk! Our middle school ELA, ESL, and special services teachers got to book shop for high-interest informational nonfiction this week. #BuildYourStack #ShelfieTalk #TitleTalk #BookLove #Nonfiction 📚🤓📖🛋️🛒🎒

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 5d

Myron Dueck’s Giving Students a Say was a hit with us! I’ve even got a schedule for it if you decide on that title.

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 6d

Love that the Papermill offered our staff the opportunity to come and see this! Such fun last evening. #lovewhereyoulive

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 7d

This week's #ThesisoftheWeek is based on the poem "Bending Sound" by Paula Gordon Lepp. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 7d

Ya know… just an average day hangin with Jay McTighe #fangirling #understandingbydesign #curriculum #nerdgirl #proudnerd #curriculumnerd

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Michelle Kraft @mnkraft.bsky.social · 8d

Agree 100%. I'd say more, but I don't want to give away the lie.

Brett Vogelsinger @thevogelman.bsky.social · 9d

Today, I wrote about two truths and a lie about AI in the classroom…I’m here to talk about it + hear about what you are seeing lately too 🙂

#AIinEducation #EduskyAI #Writing #GenAI

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Two Truths and a Lie About AI

Here are three statements: Can you figure out which two are true? Students will try to cheat with AI. Students need help reasoning on their AI usage. Students talk to their teachers about their AI …

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 10d

Today’s #bookmail #BuildYourStack #MyPersonalPD

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 13d

Just finished this #versenovel #novelinverse #MGLit #YALit

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 13d

Very cool!

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 13d

Rounding the bend into October, & here is the fifth installment of #ThesisoftheWeek based on the poem "Belonging" by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer. And, yes, this is a way of getting more poems into the hands of young people! #poetry #writingpractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 14d

… I can’t imagine any version of me that’s like: I’m good y’all! I’ve arrived. I’m here to lead you because I have all the expertise. Nope! Sometimes the systemic pressures are the root cause of impostor syndrome. Systems love to protect themselves against change.

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 14d

This. In a leadership role, it’s 10 times worse. Super stressful. Because even when I am consciously doing something I know will be helpful, those shame tapes play! And yes… 25+ years of classroom experience, published, led PD. It’s the worst! But…

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 17d

My #library #bookhaul Loved reading these titles over the past days. From these, I’ve requested more titles by these authors & illustrators. Anthologies are great resources to learn about creators! #buildyourstack #kidlit #picturebooksofinstagram #bookstagram #teachergram #titletalk #shelfietalk

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Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his) @naemmanuele.bsky.social · 17d

#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection

Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.

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On Leadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection. Thursday, October 23, 7 pm ET. with Kara B Douma, Nicholas Emmanuele, Sawsan Jaber, Liz Lietz, and Jenelle Williams. CEL, A Constituent Group of NCTE.

On Leadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection. Thursday, October 23, 7 pm ET. Literacy leaders will explore schools' processes for selecting secondary classroom literature; learn methods to support teachers in enhancing students' experiences; and discuss challenges to texts that affirm students and honor communities. CEL, A Constituent Group of NCTE.

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 17d

And now I want to read Being There again…

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 19d

Emily Dickinson said “Much madness is divinest sense” so there’s that too!

a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson .

ALT: a woman in a dress is standing in a room and talking to emily dickinson .

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 20d

@joellenmccarthy.bsky.social My #LibraryHaul after attending @theedcollab.bsky.social Fall Gathering yesterday! 💜 #BuildYourStack #BookLove #KidLit

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JoEllenMcCarthy @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social · 21d

“A writing voice is crafted by where you live your reading life.” Katie Wood Ray ♥️♥️♥️ @theedcollab.bsky.social #thedcollabgathering.

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 20d

It was 1996 and I was told not to smile before Christmas. But can ya still kinda see me smiling? 😆

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 21d

It's Week 4 of #ThesisoftheWeek and the poem for thesis practice this week is "Basilico" by Sue Ann Gleason: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thesis of the Week: "Basilico" by Sue Ann Gleason

Stimulus text: “Basilico” by Sue Ann Gleason Thesis 1: In the poem “Basilico” by Sue Ann Gleason, the speaker addresses a family member whose memory fails her. The poet’s choice of words emphasizes ...

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Brett Vogelsinger @thevogelman.bsky.social · 24d

Always a favorite activity. The title seems simple…until we start mapping the connotations of each word, unlocking meaning and anticipation.

#TheOldManabdndtheSea #APLit

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · Sep 11

A 9/11 artifact. The window of the front office with messages for NJ teens from their parents who worked in NYC.

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · Sep 11

Monday 9/15 begins Week Three of #ThesisoftheWeek which is always linked on my Poetry as Practice Blog. The stimulus text this week is "Balance" by Dorianne Laux. Here's the doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · Sep 10

I was today years old when I learned from a school library media specialist that there’s such a thing as Vox Books! So cool!

#kidlit #booklove #audiobooks
#librariesrock