Lee Ann Spillane

@Mollyploofkins @DianeRavitch characters in The Hunger Games or from Westerfeld’s Pretties

Mar-a-Lago face before and after

Our classroom library is open! Judge strikes down Florida book banning: portable-teacher.blogspot.com/2025/08/no-boo…

Feb 6-9, 2025: Explore your options as an educator at the #ISSedu Washington, DC job fair! You'll meet hiring #IntlSchools, network with educators and leaders, plus enjoy on-site professional development. Register at iss.education/DC25 #TeachAbroad #EdChat

Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Orbis Pictus Award® for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children: STEALING LITTLE MOON: THE LEGACY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS by Dan SaSuWeh Jones. ncte.org/awards/orbis-p…

What an amazing start to the day! Inspirational words from Bryan Stevenson. Proximity is key and identity is critical. The best schools care for, support, and believe in ALL children. Education is the vehicle to repair truth. Truth needs to be our legacy. Hope is our superpower!

“We do not have to hide from the truth” -Bryan Stevenson. What an inspiring keynote this morning @ncte #TeacherTears #TCTELA

So inspiring to hear from one of my heroes—Bryan Stevenson, the author of Just Mercy at #NCTE24

"We need to commit to a new era of truth and reconciliation. . . . I have no interest in punishment. My interest is in liberation." —Bryan Stevenson, author of JUST MERCY, delivering the Saturday General Session keynote at #NCTE24

All kids deserve seating choices and welcoming learning spaces. If you’d ❤️ to help transform this new classroom— Check out Flexible Seating for the Pack on Donors Choose #yearofthewolf: donorschoose.org/project/flexib…

Educator Study Guides are available on NCTE's website for Classroom Design to Support Student Agency. res.cloudinary.com/ncte/image/upl…

Mermaids UK | Project for Awesome 2024 supporting trans, non-binary and gender diverse youth-- power to the MerPeople! #p4a Watch, vote, donate. youtu.be/MdBoj1ct9_E?fe…

*dusts off main* Since 2007, the @proj4awesome has raised over $12,000,000 for charities like @PIH and @SavetheChildren. We're back at it for the 2024 edition. Livestream starts Friday but the fundraiser is live! You can donate now and get great perks at projectforawesome.com/donate

"Action inspires hope." - Janti Soeripto, @SaveCEO_US on the #p4a2024 livestream talking with @hankgreen about the crisis in Gaza. Donate, vote, support, act! tiltify.com/+p4a-producers…

Save The Children #p4a2024 if you donate money will go to this charity. Helped create world suck for the better. Project for awesome is the real deal. Search for friends and family and do some early Christmas shopping or birthday shopping.

And why is Peter Johnston’s Choice Words, a professional book for teachers which supports inclusive and invitational ways of speaking to students on this list? It’s not a classroom library book…. Unbelievable.

1/6 The cost of attending "high-achieving" schools: A review of research shows that the "unrelenting pressures [in these schls] to accomplish ever more" & be the best --> rates of anxiety & depression an astounding 6-7 times the average for kids that age: is.gd/6q2311

@hankgreen God love him, indeed. Lucky, Lucky, lucky you are.

Happy Father’s Day to my dad, who has always become passionately interested in whatever it is I love…even, god love him, Nine Inch Nails.

@hankgreen Grateful for you and wishing you well through chemo!