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Leah Werther

@thewritewerther.bsky.social

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⚽️ soccer mom | 📝 Capital District Writing Project co-director | 🇵🇭 Bicolano Ako | 👩🏻‍🏫 K-12 DEI TOSA | 📚book lover

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Sep 6

Join me & @dianaliuedu.bsky.social on September 30, 2025 for a Virtual Book Launch for Worthy: The Brave and Capable Life of Joseph Pierce by @andreaywang.bsky.social and illustrated by Youa Vang.

Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Book launch flyer with cover of Worthy picture book and headshots of author and illustrator

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Aug 27

Where is this schedule? Online? App? Inquiring minds want to know!

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Mar 12

Join the NCTE Asian/Asian American Caucus for an Author Talk with Raj Tawney on April 22.

Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Flyer for Author Talk Event.
Top left photo of man in brown jacket next to colorful wall.
Includes two book covers

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Feb 25

Congrats to HD Hunter for his Debut win with Something Like Right and Marcus Kwame Anderson for his Graphic Novel Honor for illustrating Big Jim and the White Boy : An American Classic Reimagined. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

www.slj.com/story/BCALA-...

BCALA, SLJ Announce 2025 Winners of the Children & Youth Literary Awards

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. and School Library Journal announce the 2025 Children & Youth Literary Awards, which celebrate the diversity of the Black experience.

www.slj.com

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Feb 6

When @cherihart.bsky.social and I saw @medenkuyatt.bsky.social on @katemessner.com’s incredible WRAD list, we just knew we had to invite her. The read aloud and Q&A was such a wonderful experience for both students and teachers. Thank you!!!

Cheri Hart @cherihart.bsky.social · Feb 6

@medenkuyatt.bsky.social Thank you for an amazing virtual visit on #WorldReadAloudDay yesterday! Our 6th graders loved hearing about Good Different and are VERY intrigued by your upcoming book Girl in the Wall. ❤️ And thanks to @thewritewerther.bsky.social for organizing!

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Jan 14

Who wants to join an online Book Study of Humans Who Teach by Shamari Reid this spring? The Book Study will be facilitated by a phenomenal team of educators from the Capital District Writing Project.

Please register by January 21, 2025: www.bit.ly/cdwpstore Space is limited!

Blue background with Humans who Teach book cover in pink and a description of the online book study in pastel blue-green.

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Jan 3

Great session @dianaliuedu.bsky.social! 🙌🏽

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Jan 2

#AsianAmAF fam, join us for a Proposal Writing Workshop at 8PM EST.

Dr. Diana Liu @dianaliuedu.bsky.social · Jan 2

thewritewerther.bsky.social
See y'all in two hours - Asian/Asian American Caucus Proposal Writing Workshop for NCTE!

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 26

My husband, as I packed for NCTE: Did you pack your empty duffle bag yet for all your new books?

He knows me so well! 😅

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 24

What a morning! Thank you @writingproject.bsky.social for inviting the Capital District Writing Project to facilitate the NWP Brunch at #NCTE24.

Three women smiling at the camera as participants in tables write in the background

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 24

Yay! Me too!!! 💛

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 24

You’re definitely taller than me. If I’m not the smallest one in any room, I’d be shocked 🤣

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 24

@jungkim.bsky.social & @profhsieh.bsky.social are giants next to me & @dianaliuedu.bsky.social

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 24

#AsianAmAF Networking event at #ncte24! Bingo. Book giveaways. And a whole bunch of other fun stuff!!!

@dianaliuedu.bsky.social
@profhsieh.bsky.social
@jungkim.bsky.social

Asian women smiling and surrounded by tables of books

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 22

What a wonderful way to start #NCTE24 with the @writingproject.bsky.social Social event.

National Writing Project 50th anniversary cupcake, sticker, Tend the Flame poem, and postcard with 1974 image

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 21

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Finding Hope and Humanity in Intergenerational Resistance: A Conversation with Authors and Educators
Nov. 22
11:00 - 12:15
Rm 156B, BC&EC

NWP Brunch
Nov. 24
10:30 - 12
Rm 210A, BC&EC

Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 18

Who’s going to #NCTE24?

This is where you’ll find me 😊

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Leah Werther @thewritewerther.bsky.social · Nov 18

Really loved this and cannot wait to get my hands on On the Block! More MS than YA, but that’s what happens when one’s office is in the middle school. 😊

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