This session shares my conversation with Erin O’Leary, FMS Reading Specialist. We recorded this conversation virtually on Friday, November 14, 2025.
We cover the following in our conversation
- Success of the middle school program “Meet Me in the Middle.”
- Virtual visiting author series though The Unlikely Story bookstore
- Culling the middle school library collection, Amazon wish list TBD
- “Content in context”
The recording runs about 30 minutes
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Erin O’Leary email address -> olearye@franklinps.net
Meet Me in the Middle info page -> https://www.franklinps.net/o/hmms/article/2230185
Instagram posts referenced:
Middle School reading wish list -> https://bookshop.org/wishlists/79f98bd86f715dae8789b3296edd63ebd92ef1ea
Tom Asacker -> https://tomasacker.com/ his book “Sandbox Wisdom” is the source of the “content in context” story that you heard
https://www.amazon.com/Sandbox-Wisdom-Tom-Asacker/dp/1497554977//humanfactormarke
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The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.
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