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  So I slacked off a little with my "Must Read" posts this summer so this one is a two-fer.  Here are TEN books I read this summer that I loved and I think you might too! Jabari Jumps by: Gaia Cornwall I love me some picture books and...

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  2018 has been quite the whirlwind of a year, and it's only June. The image of ashes keeps coming to mind. That image of something being in existence and then burned by fire until all that is left is ashes. But even in the midst of...

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  I started this "series" of posts back in February, and then my life got flipped upside down and I haven't posted since then.  So, it's back! My plan is to post once a month with 5 recommendations of books I've finished recently. These will be...

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  I believe in the power of a single book.  That one story, or character, can empower/challenge/save a life.  I've seen it with my own eyes. In 2016 I was asked to join the Scholastic Principal Advisory Board.  This isn't a position I get paid for but...

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  I have watched the power of a story change a life. I have seen a child become so engrossed in a book that they carry it everywhere with them and find a way to put it into any conversation.  And when you can have a...

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  If there's one thing I've learned more than anything else, it's the power that lies within stories.  Over the past year and a half I have consumed one book after another.  But I've started reading books I would have never chosen in the past.  Why?...

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  If there's one thing I've learned, to depth of my core, about being in education, it's how deeply we get connected to our students and how much of what goes in their little lives, affect ours. When I was deciding what I wanted to do with...

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