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Mary Ann Cappiello @macappiello.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lesley University alum @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social has created the amazing History’s Kids podcast. Brilliantly designed and executed, it features interviews with adults who experienced historic events in their childhoods. Ideal for families and classrooms! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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History's Kids

Kids & Family Podcast · Where the past meets the present! Episode of History's Kids tell listeners all about historical events - through interviews with people who were really there as children. Episo...

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you so much for sharing, Mary Ann! This work is rooted in much of what we explored in Content Literacy and so many other courses at Lesley 🩵 I'm so excited History's Kids is finally here!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Wow, this collaboration between many children's podcasts to create episodes on "big feelings" is really well done - a great resource for families and schools looking for social-emotional learning resources! #EduSky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings

Education for Kids Podcast · Updated Weekly · Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups is a 7-part audio adventure where creators from the Kids Listen community come together to explore feelings in all their...

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Today’s beach read! Excited to learn from @lindsaykemeny.bsky.social. 🤘📚

Cover of the book “Rock Your Literacy Block: Mighty Moves to Organize Your Day and Optimize Student Learning” by Lindsay Kemeny. A hand is holding up the book with the beach in the background.

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

There are some beautiful excerpts in this article - looking forward to reading the collection! ❤️ What new releases are grabbing your eye lately? #EduSky

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“We cannot separate knowing the children from knowing their families. We cannot separate caregiving from education.” - @nqcliteracy.bsky.social Powerful thinking shared at the Massachusetts Reading Association Conference ❤️

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hi! Would love to enter. Do we sign up for the Little Monster Media newsletter by filling out that Contact form? 🤔

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Highlights of #OnAirFest Day 1: 🎤 @ohitsbigron.bsky.social’s fabulous hosting skills 🎛️ @20k.bsky.social’s real talk about workflow 🖼️ @ariellethisandthat.bsky.social’s INCREDIBLE cover art workshop (I took so many notes 📝) 🎙️ @airmedia.bsky.social’s lovely mixer Beyond excited for Day 2! 🥰

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Spending the new few days at #OnAirFest! 🎙️ First-time attendee, new to the podcasting space - excited to learn!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

These sessions have been so helpful!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I’ll be there! 👋🏻 I’m new to the podcasting space and super excited to learn from so many people!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is a great list - would love to be added. Thank you for maintaining it! ❤️

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

For educators on break this week: what are you reading? Here’s what’s on my list.

Book cover of Kids on the March: 15 Stories of Speaking Out, Protesting, and Fighting for Justice by Michael G. Long

Book cover of The Boy Who Reached for the Stars by Elio Morillo

Book cover of AMAZONS, ABOLITIONISTS, AND ACTIVISTS
A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF WOMEN'S FIGHT
FOR THEIR RIGHTS by MIKKI KENDALL
AND A. D'AMICO

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

What is everyone reading this weekend? 📚 I’m reading “The Small and the Mighty” - powerful stories for this moment in history.

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"Sharon McMahon is the perfect guide through the often forgotten chapters of American history."
-David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon
Sharon
McMahon
CREATOR OF SHARON SAYS SO
#1
NEW YORK
TIMES
BESTSELLER
The Small and the Mighty
Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

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Jillian Heise @heisereads.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The devastation from wildfires can be hard to fathom. These books can help young people process what's happening. 📙They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them 📗What to Bring 📘I Am the Storm 📕Wildfire! Thoughts with those on the front lines fighting to save.🙏🏻

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

This is such a cool approach to thinking about primary sources! Thanks for sharing!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! May 2025 hold many amazing things - including great books and lots of learning. 📚❤️

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Just used these in a PD session this week! Very helpful for teachers to be able to see such precise language

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

When a student responds to an open-ended question, we then have the opportunity to "step it up" or "step it down" by providing challenge or providing support. Great takeaways for teachers from Tricia Zucker & Sonia Cabell's work! 💬 More in this article: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED6... #EduSky

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hello friendos Your librarian here with the library tip Your library might have a collection of Useful Things you can check out for personal use. Anything from tools to baking pans to garden seeds to home projectors to toys to science kits to sports equipment to music instruments. Take a look!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Elementary teachers: What’s something you tried in your classroom this week that worked? 📚❤️ #EduSky

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

One of my goals this year is increasing opportunities for teachers to do peer visits - would love to hear about effective intervisitation strategies/protocols/ideas teachers have found helpful in other districts! #EduSky

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We’ve been having check-in meetings with teachers at each school between PD sessions, and it’s been a great opportunity to collect info on what has helped and what are new wonderings. Always looking for ideas though!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Has anyone had an issue with #alttext seemingly not saving on this platform? I have reminders on and have added alt text for every image I’ve posted, but it’s now only appearing on about 60% of them. Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue!

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That’s exciting! I’m spending part of this week finalizing the work plans for next week’s literacy PD sessions. I love thinking about how our PD time can be responsive to teachers’ needs, so I’m excited to dig into possibilities! #EduSky #EduCoach

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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 30/11/2024

If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

And at the elementary level, vocabulary doesn’t have to be a standalone component of our instruction. In fact, it can and should be integrated with science, social studies, math, and authentic reading experiences! ❤️🧠 #EduSky

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Teachers and administrators: Do you have a favorite professional text of 2024? 📚 Looking for books that made an impact on your practice, summarized research in a digestible way, or lead to great conversation with colleagues. #EduSky

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I highly recommend “Shirley Chisholm In Her Own Words” - it is a collection of Shirley’s speeches and writings - just phenomenal.

Book Cover of Shirley Chisholm In Her Own Words

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Oh, this looks fantastic! I LOVE the Science of Reading in Practice series.

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A great thread. To learn more about Gordon Parks’ remarkable work, I highly recommend Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford & Jamey Christoph. A stunning read for K-12 learners! #kidlit #picturebook

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I love that! 🥰 (Huge fan of your books by the way!)

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’m on year seven of writing in a journal every night to document the things I’ve done that day. My grandmother did the same thing in the 1940s. It helps me feel connected to her ❤️

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My hometown library was also in Natick, MA! Special memories.

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What a great topic! I had the honor of starting my teaching career in the same school where I had been a K-4 student. I got to work alongside my former teachers - all of whom had inspired a love of story for me and my peers. Here I am with my fourth grade teacher in 2003 and 2019! #kidlitchat

The left side shows a fourth-grade student and her teacher. The right side shows the student grown up, standing next to the same teacher who is wearing the same suit.

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Jordan @gm-jordan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is your reminder to get a library card. They have so many services and basically all of them are free.

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Kindergarten teachers: What are your favorite meaningful literacy center ideas? Looking to collect more ideas for our K teachers. #EduSky (Here, students play hopscotch with words they’ve orthographically mapped, then go fishing for the words at another center!)

Hopscotch with high-frequency words on each tile

Students go fishing for high frequency words

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

That’s so funny. I’m very often called on to give a “Taylor Swift update” at the beginning of meetings 😂🥰

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Lorraine Leddy @lorrainemleddy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A4: Being a part of my local library’s Friends group gives me a real sense of purpose and community 📚 @bklynlibrary.bsky.social #theedcollab

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