After enduring a stroke, early learning professional Gladys founded her organization ECE on the Move & fights for Early Childhood Education.

Read her story! https://www.momsrising.org/blog/from-family-child-care-educator-to-disabled-leader-my-journey-of-advocacy-resilience-and/?source=bsky.mr

For your Civil Rights and Social Justice toolkits, an alphabetized collection of bespoke reading lists for young readers from Activism to Zinn! 💪

#readearly #readoften #readaloud
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What's the one book that finally got your child (or you!) hooked on reading?

Share your "gateway book" in the comments below! 👇

#bookworm #bibliophile #readearly #readoften #readaloud #readeverything
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From ⁦‪Vancouver Island Regional Library‬⁩ #Gabriola Island
#Gsky #Nanaimo #Library #ReadEarly

"One instructor observed that Brown seemed fixated on 'words and language,' as if she were more of a poet than a teacher. Another noted, 'Much of the time Miss Brown seems to be in a day-dream.'"

#literacy #readearly #readaloud #readeverything

🤓A bit of bookish wisdom from the incomparable Lou Alcott:

"Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort."
-Louisa May Alcott

🎥: MidJourney
🎙️: ElevenLabs

#readearly #readoften #readaloud #kidlit #bibliophile

John Comenius, a 17th-century Czech philosopher, championed the revolutionary idea that people learn via their senses, paving the way for more inclusive and effective teaching methods for young people.
📸: John Comenius

#readearly #readoften #readaloud
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So much winning!

www.cf.org/news/musk-we...

Yours truly was outright thrilled to see Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is An Alien" series show up a handful of times in the comments. Wonderful writing, big ideas, and SPACE TRAVEL! Plus a happy little blob named Poot.*
📸: Victoria Taylor

#freadom #readearly #readoften
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"In terms of child literacy rates going down, that was really what ‘Reading Rainbow’ was designed in response to, and in particular the ‘summer slide,’ they call it, which is when students are out of school, their literacy levels slide backward."

#readearly #LeVarBurton
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"To recite poetry is to discover (as students) or rediscover (as educators) the ability of poets to speak down through the generations, using us as mouthpieces."

#readearly #readoften #readbannedbooks #readeverything

📸: Peter H. Reynolds
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𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 & 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 & 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲
Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter
https://bit.ly/3xHa62K

#readearly #readoften #readaloud #readeverything
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