๐ K-12 District Library Media Specialist. ๐ (she/they). ๐ Vector art dabbler. ๐ค Machine Learning & nature enthusiast. EDI for all. #TTSDReads
Portland Metro, OR
Joined July 2009
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Oregon Poetry Associate calls all K-12 students to join their 2024 Cascadia Youth Poetry Contest!
There are three divisions (Elementary, Middle and High). Entries are free and due by May 15th. Guidelines and more information can be found at opa.submittable.com/submit
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Shaping minds, forging justice! We just released a Responsible AI and Tech Justice Guide to reimagine a learning environment where every student explores the ethical landscape of technology! kaporfoundation.org/justicecโฆ
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The 2024 @EdSafeAI Women in AI Fellows have been announced! EDSAFE AI Alliance and @InnovateEDUNYC are excited to support these fellows as they begin reimagining education as a learning system enabled by AI. edsafeai.org/fellowship
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Share this account! Resources, action items, & more are coming soon. Collectively, we are about advocating for school library collections, school libraries, school librarians, books, authors/ illustrators, reading, readers, & students. We are the #FReadom Fighters!
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Byrom Elementary School hosted author Jelani Memory earlier this month. Jelani wrote the book "A Kid's Book About Racism" and spoke with students about diversity, celebrating differences, and being an upstander for the people around.
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Susie King Taylor served in the American Civil War. Her captain wrote โI regret that you are debarred from having your name on the roll of pensioners as an Army Nurse; for among all the number of heroic women whom the government is now rewarding, I know of no one more deserving.โ
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Let's come together in solidarity against censorship. Join your colleagues at an evening reception to honor the courage & resilience of America's librarians and their persevering work to protect the freedom to read. cdmcd.co/KGA9Dy
Register for #ALAAC23 to attend.
ALT Image A Rally for the Right to Read: Uniting for Libraries & Intellectual Freedom - An Evening Reception Unite Against Book Bans logo and illustration of raised hands in multiple skintones. Thursday, June 22, 6:00-9:00PM, CT ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition June 22-27, 2023 Chicago ALAAnnual.org American Library Association
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Reminder: Turn in your ballots by May 16th to vote for Tigard-Tualatin School District's next board members. Check out each candidate's background from our Candidate Forum here: youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9wpC-4โฆ
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Read to a certified therapy dog in a stress-free environment! Sign-up for a 20-minute reading session. Please register for only one reading session per child per month. Sign up here: bit.ly/DogsAndTales
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Stop by the library to choose from an incredible selection of exclusive comics (for kids, teens, and adults), and pick up a special edition comic-themed Take & Make while you're here. Saturday, May 6th. Limit 3 please.
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If there's one thing you take away from FCBD, we hope it's this: comics are for everyone.
Celebrate FCBD at your local comic shop and be a part of something bigger!
#FCBD2023
#ComicsAreForEveryone
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Today is the first annual Right to Read Day - a national day of action to defend, protect, and celebrate your right to read freely. Join us on #RightToRead Day by supporting your library and defending the freedom to read in your community: uniteagainstbookbans.org/rigโฆ #AASLslm
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If you believe, as we do, that a small group of parents like Moms for Liberty should not dictate what books other people's children are allowed to read, please join us tomorrow in taking action on #RightToReadDay (April 24) during #NationalLibraryWeek. uniteagainstbookbans.org/rigโฆ
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โจ SAVE THE DATE - Thurs., June 22, 2023. A Rally for the Right to Read! Let's come together in solidarity against censorship. Join us at the Unite Against Book Bans event & reception, celebrating the courage & resilience of America's librarians. Details to come. #ALAAC23
ALT Image A Rally for the Right to Read! Save the Date! Thursday, June 22 Unite Against Book Bans Illustration of diverse hands raised. ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition June 22-27, 2023 Chicago ALAAnnual.org American Library Association
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Authors Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman are visiting TTSD Monday, April 24th!
Contact your building's library staff for more details.
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Hey @Scholastic we need to talkโฆ
I need you to be brave.
Love,
Kelly Yang
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Join us Wed., 4/26, for a free night of poetry & prose from eight Portland writers and performers celebrating the vibrant indie-lit scene thriving in the #PDX underground. Authors will have books for sale and preorders available for titles old & new. More: literary-arts.org/event/lit-โฆ
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Unique #volunteer opp! Help us & @Portland_State survey Sandy River Delta for western painted turtles this spring. This sensitive-critical species is there, but we need eyes on the ground to help us locate the #turtles & egg masses. Email
[email protected] for details!
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๐ I told y'all we would be adding tour stops. Boston metro, I'm coming your way to talk all things NIC BLAKE with THEE @wimpykid at @unlikelybkstore . We should call this event, "Diary of a fangirl" because IT'S JEFF KINNEY.
Get your tickets here: anunlikelystory.com/thomas
