{"id":9020,"date":"2023-10-23T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9020"},"modified":"2023-10-23T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:47:02","slug":"visiting-mitchell-intermediate-conroe-isd-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/visiting-mitchell-intermediate-conroe-isd-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Mitchell Intermediate, Conroe ISD, Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was so excited to finally have this visit happen. MaryEllen Bryant, librarian-extraordinaire, and I have been corresponding since the fall of 2019. There was a trip in place way back then for me to visit 5 Conroe ISD schools in the spring of 2020. Who knew in the fall of 2019 that such plans were for naught?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MaryEllen warned me that there would be a LOT of books to sign, so I made sure to have several of my favorite sharpies on hand. She was not kidding! First picture is for posterity. Second is us goofing it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All of the 5th grade students came in for an assembly in the morning — 600! And in the afternoon, 600 6th grade students came in. I always save lots of time for Q&A and with big groups, ask for educators to select a number of students to come up to the front to ask those questions. Here are some of the questioners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were also a number of Ukrainian students at the school, and so they came forward so I could meet them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best moment? The group hug:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the middle of the day there was time for autographing all those books, plus lunch, with selected students cycling through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The school day ended and I still had two giant cases of books to sign, so MaryEllen grabbed one case and I took the other and we loaded them into the trunk of my rental car. I was seeing her again on Wednesday night for dinner and that would give me time to get them all autographed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was so excited to finally have this visit happen. MaryEllen Bryant, librarian-extraordinaire, and I have been corresponding since the fall of 2019. There was a trip in place way back then for me to visit 5 Conroe ISD schools in the spring of 2020. Who knew in the fall of 2019 that such plans … Continue reading “Visiting Mitchell Intermediate, Conroe ISD, Texas.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[405,728,233,729,7,609,51],"class_list":["post-9020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-author-visits","tag-conroeisd","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-texas-visit","tag-ukrainian","tag-winterkill","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}