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Being unchosen isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, being unchosen taught me how to live.

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Ask your students about book preferences, access, and more to create personal goals, plan spring lessons, and motivate for summer reading.

We've rounded up some contests for all ages, found more story hours, finish out January's free streaming opera, and more free activities for kids

Educators can teach Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem "The Hill We Climb" and share Gorman's story with students.

As the terrorist attack on the Capitol unfolded yesterday, educators took to Twitter, considering how to talk to students about the event and the importance of news literacy and civics education.

Some educators abandon teaching the Bard's work, while others update and enhance Shakespeare curricula.

On December 29, 1890, the United States Army killed 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Frank Waln, an award-winning Lakota music artist from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, discusses the 130th anniversary of the massacre and Native representation in the U.S. education system.

The CDC recommends teachers and support staff get the coronavirus vaccine in the next round of distribution; the Black Caucus of ALA has put out its Best of the Best 2020 booklist; applications are being accepted for the Library of Congress Librarian in Residence program; and more in this edition of News Bites.

It was a tough year, but there is always an author, educator, or young person to remind even the most cynical among us that there are reasons to believe better days are coming.