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Kayla Briseño @kaylabriseno.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It’s taken me a little while to gather all my books from #ncte24, but here’s my haul! I didn’t get as many as in years past, but I was too busy attending such great sessions! The desire to multiply myself is real at #ncte! Can’t wait to share these with my students!

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

1. Go to your local library and fill out request forms. 2. Show up at your local school board meetings. Sign up to speak. Remind them that access to books that are relevant and relatable INCREASES LITERACY, which is literally the job of schools 3. Show up at library board meetings. Same thing.

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Stephen Briseño @stephenbriseno.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We got to be tourists in Boston and it was delightful and I had quite possibly the best ramen I’ve ever had. @kaylabriseno.bsky.social

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Kayla Briseño @kaylabriseno.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A great last (full) day at #NCTE24 in Boston! I got to sign at the Corwin booth, present with my dear friends (The Notebook Nerds), visit a LOVELY book shop (Beacon Hill), and finish up with ramen and shopping in China town.

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Stephen Briseño @stephenbriseno.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“When you become governed by fear and anger, you begin to accept things you should never accept.” —Bryan Stevenson

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Kayla Briseño @kaylabriseno.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“Hope isn’t always rational, but it is always necessary. We have to be agents of hope.”—Bryan Stevenson

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Kayla Briseño @kaylabriseno.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Come say hi tomorrow at the Corwin booth and snag a copy of our book! #ncte24 #ncte

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Kayla Briseño @kaylabriseno.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So excited to be presenting with my dear friends again! Come see us tomorrow and prepare to have a lot of fun with notebooks!! #ncte24 #ncte #notebooknerds

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Kayla Briseño @kaylabriseno.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

What a great session with Penny Kittle, Kelly Gallagher, A. S. King, and Kwame Alexander! #ncte24

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Let's start a thread of your favorite small poems. Here are a few of mine:

Empire of Dreams
By Charles Simic

On the first page of my dreambook
It’s always evening
In an occupied country.
Hour before the curfew.
A small provincial city.
The houses all dark.
The storefronts gutted.

I am on a street corner
Where I shouldn’t be.
Alone and coatless
I have gone out to look
For a black dog who answers to my whistle.
I have a kind of Halloween mask
Which I am afraid to put on.

Dust
By Dorianne Laux

Someone spoke to me last night,
told me the truth. Just a few words,
but I recognized it.
I knew I should make myself get up,
write it down, but it was late,
and I was exhausted from working
all day in the garden, moving rocks.
Now, I remember only the flavor —
not like food, sweet or sharp.
More like a fine powder, like dust.
And I wasn’t elated or frightened,
but simply rapt, aware.
That’s how it is sometimes —
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you’re just too tired to open it.

Morning Love Poem
by Tara Skurtu

Dreamt last night I fed you, unknowingly,
something you were allergic to.

And you were gone, like that.

You don’t have even a single allergy,
but still. The dream cracked. Cars nosedived

off snow banks into side streets. Sometimes
dreams slip poison, make the living

dead then alive again, twirling
in an unfamiliar room.

It’s hard to say I need you enough.

Today I did. Walked into your morning shower
fully clothed. All the moments

we stop ourselves just because we might
feel embarrassed or impractical, or get wet.

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Stephen Briseño @stephenbriseno.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

KATE MCKINNON!!! #ncte24

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Lena Haley @lehaley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Ordinary people can do extraordinary things." #KetanjiBrownJackson #NCTE24 #NCTEVILLAGE #Keynote #SupremeCourtJustice

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Leah Thomas📝 @leahthomaswrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Amazing actionable tips from @stephenbriseno.bsky.social and @kaylabriseno.bsky.social. First session at NCTE2024 and first post on Bluesky!

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Stephen Briseño @stephenbriseno.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Boston bound!! See y’all soon, #NCTE24 ! @kaylabriseno.bsky.social

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Kayla Briseño @kaylabriseno.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Anyone else going to #ncte24? Come visit us at the @corwin_press booth and come learn with me and @stephenbriseno.bsky.social on Thursday at 11:30-12:45 (A.7: Powered by Picture Books in room 103B). See y’all in Boston! #teachingbrisenos #picturebooks #ELAR

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