Gary Anderson
@andersongl.bsky.social
Family Guy / English Teacher / Professional Development / Cybils Awards Board of Directors/ IG: @andersonglit http://WhatsNotWrong.wordpress.com
Teachers should not be responsible for finding their own substitutes. That’s an administrative job.
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Teachers should not be responsible for finding their own substitutes. That’s an administrative job.
Forthcoming verse novel from Idris Goodwin with neurodiversity representation — KING OF THE NEURO VERSE: whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/r...
Review: KING OF THE NEURO VERSE by Idris Goodwin
In Idris Goodwin’s forthcoming young adult verse novel King of the Neuro Verse, it’s 1999 and Pernell is in summer school, again. His English teacher, Ms. Harding, dismisses his attention deficit d…
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August 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Forthcoming verse novel from Idris Goodwin with neurodiversity representation — KING OF THE NEURO VERSE: whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/r...
www.dailyherald.com/20250805/new... #johnhersey #hiroshima #highschool #journalism #arlingtonheights
The ‘courageous decision’ that links an Arlington Heights high school to the Hiroshima bombing
Bruce Janu admits nuclear proliferation wasn’t on his mind on graduation day 1986 at John Hersey High School, when the Arlington Heights school’s namesake returned for a final time to speak at com...
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August 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Three is both 9 and 2. #BaseballLogic @boomersbaseball.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Three is both 9 and 2. #BaseballLogic @boomersbaseball.bsky.social
Another brave, talented, high school student: www.dailyherald.com/20250531/new...
Student journalist’s investigation into Prospect’s first principal prompts review of honorary naming
A student journalist for Prospect High School’s newspaper uncovered former Principal Alvin Kulieke’s ties to a fringe religious group and its early embrace of eugenics principles. Now Northwest Su...
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June 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Another brave, talented, high school student: www.dailyherald.com/20250531/new...
I stand with Springsteen, literally.
May 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I stand with Springsteen, literally.
Looking for an excellent YA summer read? Get ahold of ON THE BRIGHT SIDE by Anna Sortino! @annaksortino.bsky.social whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/r...
Review: ON THE BRIGHT SIDE by Anna Sortino
On the Bright Side is Anna Sortino’s brilliant 2024 young-adult, dual-narrative novel that opens with Elle’s junior year ending as her fully immersive Deaf boarding school closes due to budget cuts…
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May 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Looking for an excellent YA summer read? Get ahold of ON THE BRIGHT SIDE by Anna Sortino! @annaksortino.bsky.social whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/r...
New review of an excellent picture book with Native representation on my What's Not Wrong? blog: whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/r... @penguinschoollib.bsky.social #nativeamericanliterature
Review: BRAVE by Weshoyot Alvitre
The narrator of Weshoyot Alvitre’s picture book Brave (Kokila, 2025) is a young Native boy wrestling with the importance of his long, braided hair. During his mother’s uncomfortable daily unknottin…
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May 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
New review of an excellent picture book with Native representation on my What's Not Wrong? blog: whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/r... @penguinschoollib.bsky.social #nativeamericanliterature
New post on my What’s Not Wrong? blog: whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/a... #freadom
April 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
New post on my What’s Not Wrong? blog: whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/a... #freadom
Dear teacher friends — @theatlantic.com offers deeply discounted subscriptions to students and educators. I just got mine.
March 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Dear teacher friends — @theatlantic.com offers deeply discounted subscriptions to students and educators. I just got mine.
In honor of #InternationalWomensDay …
Poem for International Women’s Day: “Sister”
In honor of International Women’s Day and all of the extraordinary women in my life, here is my poem “Sister,” originally published in Moon Journal. Sister Not having had a sister…
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March 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In honor of #InternationalWomensDay …
“This Caldecott Medal winner by Native creators provides readers with pleasure for the eyes and ears, as well as important lessons about learning and family.” @levinequerido.bsky.social @andrealrogers.bsky.social
Review: CHOOCH HELPED by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz
Photo: Levine Querido Chooch is two years old, and he likes to help. The help of a two-year old isn’t usually all that helpful, but everyone gives him grace except Sissy, his older sister who has n…
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March 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“This Caldecott Medal winner by Native creators provides readers with pleasure for the eyes and ears, as well as important lessons about learning and family.” @levinequerido.bsky.social @andrealrogers.bsky.social
For those keeping track, I consider “woke” to be a compliment.
February 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
For those keeping track, I consider “woke” to be a compliment.
Reposted by Gary Anderson
And the news is out! So happy for Shifa Saltagi Safadi and all the readers this book offers #mirrorsdoorsandwindows to!
#mglit #yalit #poetry #versenovel #booksky #poetrysky #cybils2024
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#mglit #yalit #poetry #versenovel #booksky #poetrysky #cybils2024
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2024 Poetry Novel in Verse Winner
Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Nominated by: @achrishelton.bsky.social
#mglit #yalit #poetry #versenovel #booksky #poetrysky #cybils2024
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Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Nominated by: @achrishelton.bsky.social
#mglit #yalit #poetry #versenovel #booksky #poetrysky #cybils2024
@penguinschoollib.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
And the news is out! So happy for Shifa Saltagi Safadi and all the readers this book offers #mirrorsdoorsandwindows to!
#mglit #yalit #poetry #versenovel #booksky #poetrysky #cybils2024
@penguinschoollib.bsky.social
#mglit #yalit #poetry #versenovel #booksky #poetrysky #cybils2024
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