Okay, y'all... let's do this thing! The World Championship of Book Talks started with 16 educators from several different continents....

It's been almost 8 years since I created my first digital flyer for this site. Ever since, every time I post one, I get questions about...

Let's be clear, there's no such thing as "alternative facts." The same fact can be used by different people to support alternative...

The wait is over! It's time to reveal the 16 book talks that make up ROUND ONE of the 2017 World Book Talk Championship! We had such a...

Last year Dr. Brad Gustafson and I co-hosted the World Championship of Book Talks. Many of you will remember that we started with a field...

This afternoon the librarians in my school district had the great privilege of (virtually) spending an hour with Donalyn Miller, talking...

I've written before about how I believe library spaces and displays represent AWEsome opportunities for us to share the story of our work...

The other day my district's Assistant Superintendent of Instruction and Student Accountability asked a group of us in a meeting to read...

The votes are in! (All 3,000+ of them!!!) And the WORLD BOOK TALK CHAMPION, winner of the Vince LomBOOKi prize, as chosen by YOU is.......

Last week I had the privilege of learning and sharing at the two conferences that make up Portland's celebrated #iPDX: AcceleratED (a one...

At last! The moment you've all been waiting for is finally here! It's time to announce which #30SecondBookTalk competitors have advanced...

A couple of months ago when Brad Gustafson (principal/lead learner at Greenwood Elementary School in Plymouth Minnesota), asked me if I...

I was honored when Todd and Adam over at #KidsDeserveIt asked me to write a guest post on their blog. The request came at a time when...

Last year, when Jennifer Northrup and I decided to start our own Virtual YA bookclub, we had two goals: to read more books and to have...

It's the day before Thanksgiving here in the US and it seems like an appropriate moment for me to show a little gratitude to my ever...

I've been thinking a lot lately about my own life as a reader.  We didn't have a lot of books in my home growing up and those we did have...

I don't know about you, but... I did not become a reader because someone held me accountable for reading. I did not become a reader...

A classroom teacher friend recently asked me to recommend a book to read aloud to her 8th grade students to kick off the school year. The...

Let me start with an apology. I've never shared anything purely personal on this blog before and I'm feeling a little weird about it. But...

I have a couple of confessions to make. I'm way jealous of #sharpschu book club. I mean unhealthily so. Whenever Colby Sharp and John...