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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Stepping up by stepping forward. The work is rekindled. . .it must be.

My signature for the pledge to the Ali Center Index.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My One Little Word (with a long lesson).

He teaches best what he most needs to know.

My One Little Word for 2025:

“LEA(r)N.”

If you can see what I am suggesting here, the idea of leaning—to lean upon—is reliant upon:

revisiting
rethinking
revising
respecting
responding

The new year presents this word for me as more than a romantic prospect. It will be an imperative as we move forward with consultations and prospective treatment plans. And while my next visit—with more answers—is not until the 21st, it is is not too early. . .to “lean”. . .into this new opportunity to learn.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This abecedarian title just keeps giving and giving by way of design and lyricism and interactive music and video and meta—oh my! The meta. Ordered TWO copies and sent one—right off—to Ms. Maddie Hankins‘s Kindergarten class at Lodge Community School in Evansville! The kids are going to LOVE this!

Cover art for CeCe Bell’s ANIMAL ALBUMS book.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

New to my DYNAMITE collection. How’s THIS for a Gen X intersection?

Mad Magazine’s Alred appears on the cover of Dynamite Magazine from 1978.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Located within our subdivision. And the neighbor is dropping them off this afternoon. I already know how I’ll situate these shelves in #stuDio119 for maximum aesthetic effect and utility. Even on break, we’re planning and designing.

Decorative shelves for the classroom. Staircase/cube style.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

What the cool kids (or at least “Mister”) will be rocking this winter. Love the little heart on the cuff.

Sweatshirt with Fletcher and a depiction of a hound dog.

Fletcher the Hound Dog in down position.

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Donalyn Miller @donalynbooks.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Research consistently shows a link between test scores and pleasure reading. Kids who read the most typically score higher than kids who don’t read that much.

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Donalyn Miller @donalynbooks.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Unpopular opinion of the day. I think that a lot of young people don’t enjoy pleasure reading because a lot of adults don’t want them to enjoy pleasure reading.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy holidays from Fletcher the Hound Dog (and his “Mister”).

Christmas card in paw prints from a hound dog puppy.

Fletcher, a hound dog puppy wears a sweater. Looks at camera.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I hate that the product is called Clean FREAK, but it is the best dry erase board cleaner. I’m transferring into plain spray bottles and charging colleagues for my Miracle Solution. BTW: No colleagues were charged. I’m keeping my find a secret so there isn’t a surge on this product.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

LIKE STARS ON EARTH was an end-of-semester tradition for thirteen years. The film features this week in advance of the break for its first year in #stuDio119schs.

Film art for the film, Like Stars on Earth.

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 14/12/2024

New to Bluesky? Here's a starter pack of picture book authors & illustrators to follow! go.bsky.app/G6pUCB

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This lamp I bought from a neighbor is going to look sharp in #stuDio119schs. I want our classroom to be the premier of the new addition.

Three-shade standing lamp. The shades arc over the post for a dramatic effect.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

When I don’t feel well in my head, I watch old Red Skelton shows. It seems to help. It’s helping today.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 13/12/2024

In addition to recommitting to the local, I think we are going to develop all kinds of coping mechanisms for this unfolding horror. I’ve never been into pens & paper beyond function. But I’m scribbling in notebooks these days. And in the spring, God willing, I will garden. Serenity prayer applies.

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Rashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"Picture books are often quite undervalued, and sometimes seen as a stepping stone to 'proper reading'. But picture books can be transgressive and beautiful and complex." - @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social. ALL OF THIS! www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...

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How to use picture books to support children facing challenging circumstances

Get recommendations of picture books to try to talk to children facing difficult circumstances, with ideas from our Writer in Residence Patrice Lawrence.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

An Inside Toy (taken outside as our day sitter lets Fletcher do about anything he wants). #dogsofuesky

Fletcher, a hound dog holding a stuffed toy in his mouth.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

@peterhreynolss.bsky.social moves into the Studio today. I don’t have all of the titles, but I’m proud to offer this curation to my students. #stuDio119schs

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Be a Mister Rogers. Wear comfy shoes. Celebrate kindness. Sow affirmations. Save time for make-believe. Sing silly little songs. Testify before a senate subcommittee about the importance of quality public broadcasting. Feed fish. Love sweaters.

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 04/12/2024

When I was teaching 7th grade a student’s dad came up to me in the grocery store once & told me he was worried about his son. “He keeps…” He paused here, and sighed. “…reading graphic novels all the time. What should I do?” My answer? “Get him more graphic novels.” #LetKidsReadWhatTheyLove

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Winter Break Project. These will be collaged in Black, White, and Gray scale for outside of the studio (d119). Upon entering the room—color and shape and complexity. Attempting to create a visual “threshold.”

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 03/12/2024

We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Prior to the big night, he rides around in a reindeer-styled car. Batman has his Batmobile. . .

I like when I can find a “Quirky” Claus to add to our decor. Here is a wooden one seemingly riding a reindeer car.

The gift with the gold star fell off of another ornament but makes for a nice parcel under a button-decorated tree.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Fletcher says Wednesday’s got him like. . .

Hound dog puppy looking up mournfully wearing a sweater.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Our students in #Studio119schs are working through the LIVE YOUR VALUES decks this week in advance of our final speech for the semester. Narratives tying our values to objects. A nod to Jan Stassen’s THE MUSEUM OF VALUES, 200+ narratives curated presenting values and stories as a/THE “social glue.”

Live Your Values decks situated within our classroom’s bookshelves.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Find those who understand you. Find one who will under stand you. Liz Climo is the artist.

Liz Climo cartoon. Depiction of a bear standing under a smaller animal so the smaller doesn’t have to dangle from a branch.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Things to look forward to in 2025: WISH by Barbara O’Connor is one of the most beloved middle grade novels of all time. Well, next summer, get ready for DREAM, the companion novel.

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Deanna @deestemteach.blacksky.app · 01/12/2024

One of the greatest children’s books ever created.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A SIDE?! Wait. This seems spot-on.

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 01/12/2024

Thank you, Indiana librarians! I'm tickled pink that THE SCARIEST KITTEN IN THE WORLD (illus. by Mackenzie Haley) is a Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee for 2025-2026! @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social And alongside so many great colleagues, too - here's the full list! www.ilfonline.org/assets/2025Y...

Pink background with an orange frame and pink hearts surrounding a book cover: THE SCARIEST KITTEN IN THE WORLD, with an adorable white kitten with big green eyes, and pink paws and nose.

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Margaret Middleton @magmidd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The first time I took a sweet from a Felix Gonzalez-Torres candy pile was at "HIDE/ SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" at the Tacoma Art Museum. I watched David Wojnarowicz's "Fire in My Belly" as the sugar dissolved on my tongue, sweet for a moment and then gone. #WorldAIDSDay

Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA) 1991 by Felix Gonzalez -Torres. The artwork is a mass of multicolored cellophane wrapped candies piled high in the corner of a white gallery with a blond wood floor.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

After tumblr died but before it was declared dead*, the site became mostly a Pig Wrestling** platform. * Tumblr is actually very much alive and quite cool now. ** As in the old adage, Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig likes it. Anyway, twitter has entered its Pig Wrestling Era.

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 21/11/2024

Teachers & librarians! Want an author to Zoom into your classroom for World Read Aloud Day February 5th? I'll be sending out this year's list of author/illustrator volunteers in my email newsletter next week! If you'd like access, sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Lavender background with cartoon animals - panda, elephant, giraffe, frog, bear, and small rodents with text that says World Read Aloud Day presented by Litworld.org.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Dr. Goldy Muhammad has me thinking this morning about “buttress roots” and stabilizing in areas where growth happens—many times against the odds—in the shallows. If these shallows are requisite skills needed to enter and navigate a new course/year, what are the “roots” which must anchor? Quickly.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I want to get back into the literature for young and teen readers in 2025. What better way to step back in with intention—and excitement— than Amy Sarig King’s PICK THE LOCK. Multiform mind warp with a punk rock musical bed.

Amy Sarig King’s new book, Pick the Lock.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My twenty-two year old Maddie (who marries this summer) is not here at B-sky to fight me on this share of “Popular” from when she was nine. Some of us have been singing along to WICKED for a very long time.

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Maddie and Noah from Spring Recital

YouTube video by Paul W. Hankins

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

New mentor image in visual treatment of “goddesses.” This window is darkened prior to Glinda’s centering as she sings the line from “What Is This Feeling?”: “These things are sent to try us!” I owe what I think I see/analyze to the work of John Golden in his NCTE publication, READING IN THE DARK.

Glinda from WICKED illuminated in a window.

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Paul W. Hankins @paulwhankins.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

28 Degrees in Floyd Knobs, Indiana. Fletcher negotiated a quick walk with the understanding that “business” would mean “turnaround to home.” Fletcher kept his end of the deal. And I kept mine.

Fletcher the Hound Dog with nose up in an indignant manner.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Looking for picture books that center sadness and grief? Two beautiful ones from this past year are “No More Señora Mimí” by Meg Medina (illus. by Brittany Cicchese) and “Just What to Do” by Kyle Lukoff (illus. by Hala Tahboub). Thank you to @alizawerner.bsky.social for sharing these at #NCTE24

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