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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 7d

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun!

We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 7d

Reading Rainbow Is Back With a New Host -- @mychal3ts.bsky.social -- And The Same Mission

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/s...

‘Reading Rainbow’ Comes Back With a New Host, but the Same Mission

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Shannon McClintock Miller @shannonmmiller.bsky.social · May 13

The 2025 Global Read Aloud kicks off on October 6, 2025. This is one of our favorite reading events every year.📚

You can click on each book cover to find the Global Read Aloud Books in @follettcontent.bsky.social Titlewave.❤️

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#TLSky #EduSky #tlchat #futurereadylibs #edchat

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School Library Journal @slj.com · 10d

Mychal Threets To Host ‘Reading Rainbow’ Reboot
www.slj.com/story/Mychal...

Mychal Threets To Host

The new episodes will air every Saturday in October onKidZuko on YouTube and the Reading Rainbow website.

www.slj.com

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 10d

"There is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It’s a very blurry line, and it’s getting more blurry all the time."

A tremendous loss. 💔

NPR @npr.org · 10d

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 13d

Audre Lorde wrote, “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”

Assata Shakur embodied this.

The tradition part 1

Carry it on now.
Carry it on.
Carry it on now.
Carry it on.
Carry on the tradition.
There were Black People since the childhood of time who carried it on.
In Ghana and Mali and Timbuktu we carried it on.
Carried on the tradition.
We hid in the bush
when the slavemasters came holding spears.
And when the moment was ripe, leaped out and lanced the lifeblood of would-be masters.
We carried it on.
On slave ships, hurling ourselves into oceans.
Slitting the throats of our captors.
We took their whips.
And their ships.
Blood flowed in the Atlantic— and it wasn't all ours.
We carried it on.
Fed Missy arsenic apple pies.
Stole the axes from the shed.
Went and chopped off master's head.
We ran. We fought.
We organized a railroad.
An underground.
We carried it on.
In newspapers. In meetings.
In arguments and streetfights.
We carried it

(The tradition part 2)
In tales told to children.
In chants and cantatas.
In poems and blues songs and saxophone screams,
We carried it on.
In classrooms. In churches.
In courtrooms. In prisons.
We carried it on.
On soapboxes and picket lines.
Welfare lines, unemployment lines.
Our lives on the line, We carried it on.
In sit-ins and pray-ins
And march-ins and die-ins,
We carried it on.
On cold Missouri midnights
Pitting shotguns against lynch mobs.
On burning Brooklyn streets.
Pitting rocks against rifles,
We carried it on.
Against water hoses and bulldogs.
Against nightsticks and bullets.
Against tanks and tear gas.
Needles and nooses.
Bombs and birth control.
We carried it on.
In Selma and San Juan.
Mozambique. Mississippi.
In Brazil and in Boston, We carried it on.
Through the lies and the sell-outs.
The mistakes and the madness.
Through pain and hunger and frustration,
We carried it on.
Carried on the tradition.
Carried a strong tradition.
Carried a proud tradition.

(The tradition part 3)

Carried a Black tradition.
Carry it on.
Pass it down to the children.
Pass it down.
Carry it on.
Carry it on now.
Carry it on
TO FREEDOM!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14d

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 14d

I know this seems simple, but bread-and-butter teaching:

⓵ have students write stuff that matters
⓶ read that stuff and take notes/leave feedback
⓷ design next lesson in response to what you notice

Yes, this takes time. But it's worth it.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 14d

Can’t wait to celebrate this book’s publication in the DMV tomorrow. 2pm at MLK library. Free and open to all. RSVPs still available. Hope to see you there!

loyaltybookstores.com/wordtothekids

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Clark Kent @lokodolo.bsky.social · 21d

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27d

Important.

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 27d

Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Free Speech and Me Speech

A helpful distinction

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · Sep 7

I know this is an unpopular opinion but what if we wrote fraction division like this, at least a couple times? Here's why:

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Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org · Sep 2

I joined Victoria Reese Brathwaite, an MS warrior, to discuss Autism Awareness and Acceptance on her podcast Patient In You.

open.spotify.com/episode/0wcl...

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geogrrl.bsky.social @geogrrl.bsky.social · Sep 4

So excited to own this and share it with my students. Thank you for your all your work and your ever-thought provoking words.

Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · Sep 3

The young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed comes out in just 4 weeks and for this book tour I’m focusing primarily on cities in the South, visiting states where people have attempted to ban or challenge the adult version of the book.

Hope to see you out there!
www.clintsmithiii.com/events

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Block+Move on @honestthief.bsky.social · Aug 30

When students ask "why everything is about race" I have them select a noun.

Any noun.

"Air?"

Factories are built next to Black neighborhoods...

"Cars"

Interstates...

"Football"

Few if any minority coaches...

"Dirt"

Slavery and the entire US economy...

It takes a minute but they get it.

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geogrrl.bsky.social @geogrrl.bsky.social · Aug 24

One of my 5th graders wanted to start a small group book club with Crenshaw, so I’m reading it with them now for the first time. ❤️ She has read it twice already and can’t wait to read it again.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · Aug 1

"We're there to be humans in the room with other humans talking about ideas"

The case by @mattrkay.bsky.social in this conversation: never more than now have classroom discussions been needed, in both quantity and quality.

(And that quantity and quality? Not an easy thing.)

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · Jul 29

Trans kids are not
•disposable
•the reason Dems lose
•a threat

Trans kids are
•deserving of basic human rights

Trans kids should be
•protected, always

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 22

Service Journalism - News you can use.

The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 21

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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geogrrl.bsky.social @geogrrl.bsky.social · Jul 21

I copy this poem into my classroom planner each summer as I prepare for a new school year. There is so much energy to take from her words. ❤️

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Jul 19

Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

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Chris Becker @chrisbecker.bsky.social · Jul 18

Also, sign up for PBS Passport! You pay what you want, money goes to your local station, and you get access to tons more great programming on-demand. help.pbs.org/support/solu...

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geogrrl.bsky.social @geogrrl.bsky.social · Jul 17

If you haven’t checked out OnBeing’s Hope Portal yet, it’s worth a listen. onbeing.org/programs/kri...

Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1

Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together. A nonprofit media and public life initiative.

onbeing.org

geogrrl.bsky.social @geogrrl.bsky.social · Jul 17

I am sitting here in a coffee shop watching two strangers bond over an unusual fruit that the barista was snacking on during his break. Enjoying the gift of our humanity to connect with each other over food and simple kindness is a hopeful delight.

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geogrrl.bsky.social @geogrrl.bsky.social · Jul 15

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Powerful episode to expand understanding of America’s economy. More importantly, a powerful lesson outline for educators. Thank you for your important work.

Slavery and the Northern Economy

Podcast Episode · Teaching Hard History · 07/10/2025 · 33m

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