Katherine Wilson

By pulling books written by people of color, @Scholastic you are taking away voices and stories that can resonate with the 87% of the students at my school who look like and who share similar life experiences with those authors.

How are we to expect our students to make personal connections and grow their love of reading when the stories they are given access to do not reflect them or their life experiences?

So disappointing. 87% of students at my school come from diverse families and backgrounds while only 37% of the books at our @Scholastic book fair (in our media center this week) have diverse characters on the covers.

This Barbie has a Nobel Prize 💖 He’s just Ken

This week students learned how to think critically about the world around them. They read articles on the pros and cons of zoos, watched videos, and visited a zoo to help further their understanding. Students then formulated their own opinions afterwards. #engagedeagles

Test prep has begun this month! Students have been grouped based on reading level. They read through a passage for 5 minutes each day to build fluency and familiarity with the new vocabulary and questions are answered on Friday. Students are engaged & enjoying test prep this way!

This week students rotated around the room to read different types of poems and identified different elements of poetry that they discovered in each poem! #educacion #teach864 #poetry #engagedeagles @GroveElementary

More great books to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth. @abramskids @lizaroyceagency

"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." — @Malala

Thanks to What Do We Do All Day? for including 3(!) of my #WomenInSTEM books in their list of women #inventors. @SteamTeamBooks @CrestonBooks @UnionSquareKids #bookposse #teachers #librarian #homeschoolers #bookstagram #scicomm #STEM #STEAM #WomenWhoCode whatdowedoallday.com/biographies-of…

To support National Reading month in March I’m giving away five copies of TURTLE IN A TREE to educators with the option of a virtual classroom visit! To enter: like this post & comment! RT will add extra entry. You can enter on behalf of an educator in your life! #kidlit

@NeeshaHudson @penguinkids Pick me! Pick me! 🙋🏻‍♀️🐢🌳

Don't miss these amazing nonfiction titles that hit shelves in January! nonfictiondetectives.com/2023/01/new-no…

Room 225 had an indoor Snow Day! Students learned about the Science of snow, we read about the first man to photograph snowflakes, designed our on snowflakes, and used area to design our own winter parks! I’d say this transformation was a success! @gcschools @GroveElementary

@JocelynRish @daneliuwrites @lynndoodles @HenryHolt @PBScribblers 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

Celebrating #LunarNewYear with a #giveaway of FRIENDS ARE FRIENDS, FOREVER by @daneliuwrites. This lovely book should go to a classroom, so #teachers #librarians - comment with an emoji to enter. Everyone else - please RT & tag #educators. I'll draw a winner 1/23 at 11pm ET.

Thank you so much to @nchurnin and @womenshistory for reading Dear Mr. Dickens to us and answering all of our questions! I have a class full of book lovers and writers that were so engaged and learned a lot! What a great day @GroveElementary #engagedeagles

You know a school is between Thanksgiving and Winter break when the only soda left available in the workroom is caffeine free. #teacherproblems #soda #caffeine #teachers #iwantadrpepper

A huge THANK YOU to @CISNational @TruistNews and @Samaritans_Feet and Mrs. Byrd for getting the students @GroveElementary new socks and shoes today! It was great to see how excited the students were to get these new shoes! #thankful #shoes #engagedeagles

Teachers, I've dreamt of taking you and your students with me on my I Survived research trips. And now...join me for a free virtual field trip 11/10! 1:00ET/10amPT (and available to stream later)