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kimcassetto.bsky.social
WA HS teacher librarian, book challenge survivor, former Eng teacher & community college admin; transracial adoptee. UW alumna. Views are my own.
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Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

submitted 92 days ago • 115 comments

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

submitted 92 days ago • 748 comments

WA State families: Please email or call your local reps & ask them to save #NBCT teacher stipends. Once we hit 25 yrs of service there are no salary increases. I started teaching right out of college. I must teach 42 years b4 I can retire. That's 17 more yrs #TLsky secure.ngpvan.com/OP85qBkL-0qv...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Learned this in the ALATT Library group: Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Teaching lateral reading is a must, but even a majority of Stanford students failed that test when the university created their Civic Online Reasoning course. It makes the two-source test nearly irrelevant if other sources just regurgitate the same misinformation. How are you combatting this?

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Our accounts are starting to migrate over to Bluesky. Give them a follow! (We'll create a #StarterPack once everyone's up and running and verified).

submitted 111 days ago • 36 comments

Grateful for the bright spot that is @jasmineforus.bsky.social today! She inspires me to lead with knowledge, compassion, and courage.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

👀 Gift article from the NYT. Grateful to the Wayback Machine & adding it to my donation list. Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: In these unprecedented times, it's easy to feel defeated and powerless. But there are many ways everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. @marcelias.bsky.social shares ten things all of us can do.

submitted 124 days ago • 31 comments

If you've felt hopeless by the executive orders & barrage of the administration in the news cycle, this is the message of HOPE you need to hear today from @americanstudier.bsky.social .

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

Legitimately trying to wrap my head around the intersection of the end to DEI and actual discrimination against protected classes. This is wild. If we aren't including, we're excluding, right? They can't claim that every non-white cis male is a #DEI hire #edusky www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Teacher librarian hive: Is there a newspaper database subscription that gives students access to current news (from at least a small subset of sources) without purchasing a class set of individual subscriptions? #tlsky #edusky We already have Ebsco and Proquest but want access to current news.

submitted 184 days ago • 3 comments

And Accelerated Reading points that devalue nonfiction & graphic novels and harm reluctant readers. AR points only reward high-achieving readers who already read above grade level 🙄

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 5/20

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

Remember that buying #bannedbooks helps authors, but does very little to keep books on library shelves & in the hands of readers/students who need representation & access the most. For meaningful support, please follow @heykellyjensen.bsky.social & @tasslyn.bsky.social work.

submitted 188 days ago • 2 comments

Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/b...

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

This is heartbreaking and it's one more form of modern day redlining where marginalized and impoverished school communities don't have access to libraries, books, & trained librarians. Early literacy is a predictor of long-term reading & academic success. #tlsky #edusky

submitted 190 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 4/20

submitted 190 days ago • 2 comments