Colleen Mestdagh, NBCT

These Lakers (and their families) had a great time at our first Doherty Book of the Month Club! 🤖🌳We loved spending time with Roz, The Wild Robot!! @wbloomfieldschl

We had a great year of reading in the Doherty library! We grew our hearts and connected through stories! 📚💖#OnlyWB

Nothing better than spreading the book love in the library! 😍📚#OnlyWB

We rolled out the red carpet for the amazing @supriyakelkar_ ! We loved reading her books and growing our hearts together in the library! Thank you @westbloomlib for making this visit possible and supporting our readers! #OnlyWB @wbloomfieldschl

Thank you @wbloomfieldschl for supporting our professional learning at Diversity in Literature Symposium! @MissPatterson00

Readers “tasted” so many delicious books at our Book Cafe today! We took sneak peeks of all of our Pine Cone books! Thank you @westbloomlib for your collaboration and making this program possible! #OnlyWB

Continuing our Mock Caldecott journey in the library! Readers are creating magnet poetry and their own crown to celebrate Langston! They are going to be so excited when they find out this book is an award winner!! #OnlyWB

"School libraries are a vital resource, so when I hear of schools with no full-time librarian - and sometimes, no librarian at all - I’m bewildered. It’s like they’re asking students to walk through a dense and vast forest without a guide." - @jcostabates mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/01/rica-b…

Young author hard at work tonight after we read “I’m From” in our school library today! Thank you for creating such a gem! @GaryRGrayJr @ogemora ❤️📚📓

We are so thankful for our amazing partnership with the @westbloomlib! Doherty kindergartners all took a field trip to the library! We had a great tour and learned about our K100 books program! #raisingreaders #OnlyWB @SpitzleyDoherty @wbloomfieldschl

Our Doherty Mock Caldecott journey has started!! @CarinBerger #OnlyWB

Children's brain activity looks different whether they are reading narrative or informational text--no surprise that classroom research suggests our instruction for these genres should be different too (e.g., purposes established for reading, text structures taught, ?s asked...)

We are having so much fun launching our Mock Caldecott unit! Readers are also making books. One artist awarded himself the Caldecott medal on his latest creation! ❤️📚#OnlyWB

Happy Picture Book Month! I love picture books. I collect them. I share them. I write them. Our students are never too old to be read aloud a picture book or to read aloud a picture book. mrschureads.blogspot.com/2023/11/2024-m…

@MrSchuReads @studiocastillo So sorry for your loss, John! ❤️

Lou Grant passed away today. He was curious and sweet and loving and such a big part of my life for the past 18 years. I'll miss him very much. I'm so grateful @studiocastillo featured him as Liam's stuffed animal in our picture book, This Is a Story.

InfoGraphic on the Science of Reading from the National Center for Improving Literacy

Kindergarteners practice reading the pictures to special fuzzy buddies! Visual literacy is so important! ❤️📚#OnlyWB

“The library should promote free, open, and equitable access to books for all students. Yes, life can be unfair. Our students will have plenty of opportunities to learn that. They don’t have to learn it in the library.” ⁦⁦@sljournal⁩ slj.com/story/Building…

@jodieogrady @kelseybogan One more time for the people in the back! 👏🏻

@kelseybogan @colmestdagh

These readers are making a plan for their reading life! 📖 #OnlyWB @SpitzleyDoherty