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Millie Davis

@mildreth02

Teacher, retired association worker with teachers, reader, writer, smartphone camera photographer. Tweets are my own, RTs/follows do not imply agreement.

Joined March 2009
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"After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably." - Zechariah Chafee #FirstAmendment #freespeech
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"You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place." On this day in 1973, Maya Angelou's magnificent conversation with Bill Moyers about freedom: brainpickings.org/2013/06/14…
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Doing the Hard Work of Preserving Freedom bit.ly/2N4kfJC "The challenge for teachers is to help students learn both to tolerate speech and ideas they dislike and to respond to those ideas critically and effectively." —Joan Bertin #BannedBooksWeek
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Excited to co-host this month's #NCTEchat this upcoming Sunday evening at 8 pm ET. Join us for a vibrant discussion about this year's #BannedBooksWeek theme: "Banning Books Silences Stories." We look forward to hearing your experiences! #ncte #censorship #bannedbooks
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This month's #NCTEchat is going to be amazing! Join us and hosts @ProfessorNana and @Dr_Oltman this Sunday to talk about how Banning Books Silences Stories. #BannedBooksWeek
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Margaret Hale@grithale21 Aug 2018
Are you a fan of young adult literature? Then you don't want to miss the ALAN Breakfast on Saturday morning, November 17 at #NCTE18 featuring A.S. King! Register today! See you there! @NCTE @TCTELA
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@KyleneBeers4 Apr 2018
Remembering such an important person: #MLK50
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Since this essay came out on Tuesday I've had some incredible conversations with educators and parents about grappling with darkness in books for children. Let's keep talking! #ThisIsLove teapawt.net/TIME/status/9509742465…
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@TIME10 Jan 2018
"Why we shouldn’t shield children from darkness" ti.me/2FlGyaM
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Hey all, here's an an essay I wrote in @TIME about grappling with darkness when writing for the very young. time.com/5093669/why-we-shou…
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To all my creative friends out there. This is the year. Make that thing you know you can make. Put in the hours. Make space for your talent. We need your voice!!
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You should have heard these students’ excitement when we opened the box of books! So excited for the chance to read #thehateugive by @angiecthomas!
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The National Coalition Against Censorship (respectfully) demands these words be removed from the government playbook: 1. Suppress 2. Obscure 3. Delete 4. Ban 5. Silence 6. Erase 7. CENSOR #CDC7words #Orwellian #thoughtcrime
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Diego Rivera, born on this day in 1886, recounts how he met the fierce teenage Frida Kahlo, then fell in love with her years later brainpickings.org/2014/05/22…
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Loved these tips about shifting from judgment to curiosity!! Thanks, @acurran319 & @cincy_mathanne for a great Coaching Institute day @HamiltonCoESC ! – at Mount Healthy Heights, OH
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Replying to @oonziela @NJASL @NJASCD @NJASCDNorth @NJASCDCentral @NJASCDSouth @ncte @ncte_cel @ALANorg
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Millie Davis@mildreth0219 Nov 2017
Our fear of discomfort keeps our children in danger - @JasonReynolds83 #ncte17
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We are @ncte #NCTE17
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PCTELA@PCTELANews20 Oct 2017
Here's how we're celebrating this morning @ncte #WhyIWrite #pctela17
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VATE@VATEnglish17 Oct 2017
Don't miss out on the chance to hear Jocelyn Chadwick speak on Friday at our 2017 Annual Conference! Sign up... fb.me/8MANMwAK0
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Work with love, embrace the unexpected, and more advice to the young from pioneering astrophysicist Cecilia Payne brainpickings.org/2017/07/26…
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PCTELA@PCTELANews12 Oct 2017
.@ncte We are excited to start our conference off on Oct20 with #WhyIWrite If you're attending #pctela17 get ready! whyiwrite.us/
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