Ms. Almagor

Update: No-paywall gift link! nytimes.com/2021/06/16/opi…

@kellogg_camille Also I TAUGHT CAMILLE IN FIFTH GRADE Early career teachers: Stay in the room. It's worth it

Account is on sabbatical... but had to come back just to tell y'all to read @kellogg_camille's JUST AS YOU ARE. Queer remixing of Pride & Prejudice... Equal parts sexy, sweet & uplifting... Wonderful read from debut author w 3-book deal so u know u wanna get there first!

@BicycleMayorTO @adambearne @NoaBanayan Thank you so much, it's my other hat @DCTrikeMom though!

#TOpoli Giving people choice on how we move through cities should include prioritizing vulnerable road users. Create infrastructure that allow electric vehicles, that aren't cars, to thrive. Thanks @adambearne HT @MsAlmagor @NoaBanayan twitter.com/adambearne/sta…

Early critics are calling JUST AS YOU ARE a delicious read

@ashleylongellis @heyprofbow How can a person's real body be unhealthy for other people? It's her actual body. She's not inflicting it on anybody. She has a right to exist too!

@heyprofbow While I love and adore Kate, her barbie figure isn’t healthy for those of us raising young girls

So I think I know what happens next on this here Internet

@jdesmondharris Classic "you'll thank me when you're older, trust me" conv

@jdesmondharris PS "If you won't change the name, you don't get the horse" is what worries me here "Great news, we're getting you the horse but you will have to change the name" If you can't set this boundary... PEP (parent encouragement program) is low cost and it helps!

🐴I laughed when I read this but then I was like "I honestly don't know!" Help me out and I'll quote a few people in my response 🐴

@kellogg_camille I do also love and appreciate stories with a real and relatable contemporary context - coincidentally these are typically written by current classroom teachers (: But if the last time you set foot in a MS classroom was MS.... I'd rather you write what you know.

@kellogg_camille Counterpoint: Sometimes writing for yourself makes the story more real. I think it's less distracting for young readers when a story is set in the past than when a writer has clearly shoehorned in their best attempt at The Tick Tock or Kids These Days Slang.

My editor pet peeve (and I promise I’m saying this to be helpful, not to be mean!!) is MG and YA books that are set in the 70s, 80s, or 90s for no reason other than that’s when the author was a kid

@belladonut @StephenKing @djohnstonpax That means something of value to the platform.

@StephenKing Funny, to me the tweet was fine as is... interesting, even... but adding "not trying to be sexist" makes it icky. And sexist.

@jimmy_dguitar @tylerkingkade Although let's agree before the GOP gets there that a picture of a child in a cat costume at school in October does not constitute evidence of the furry enabling epidemic.

Come to DC Family Bike Fest!!! Sept. 18, 10am-2pm, Tanner Park. Learn about family biking, connect with other families, have fun, get free goodies, eat free sno cones. bit.ly/DCFest2022 See you there!! #bikeDC

Friends, it's my birthday! I'm not teaching this year - but several of my former students now have classrooms of their own. If you'd like to give me a gift, please consider sending a little $ or a book their way: tinyurl.com/5wp96s5n

Today in "Should we train teachers to carry firearms?" wapo.st/3zYCFHh

@ConorPWilliams Can't speak to the shortage or empirical data (as usual) but I am writing about where I personally went and why. I'll be back, I hope.

@EricBourland I don't disagree... but the prose is significantly less effective and more distracting for the woman reader.

CPW on moral responsibility and what's wrong with, eg, Ruby Payne.

@JamilahLemieux Love the sunlight... and like seeing my neighbors on the block, too. We live in the city - the "downstairs" isn't private. We get dressed to come down the stairs!

White people, what’s your aversion to window curtains? Blinds, shades? Why can I see in your house? Let’s have a dialogue.