My guess: most people can name one Native author, partly because their book is on just about every banned book graphic they see.

Fact: there' s a recent surge of excellent bks by Native writers and they're getting challenged and banned.

Read these books! Share them!

Did you know more than 3,300 books were banned last school year, according to PEN America? We must stop this.

This #BannedBooksWeek , urge your legislators to protect our kids’ freedom to read by sending an e-letter at the link in bio. #BooksNotBans

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Adding this to my to buy list!!!

Capping off this busy weekend with getting a grant application submitted just under the wire. Not my best work but done work. #grateful 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

COMO peeps, skip cooking today and help a young family and their beautiful baby!

TY to Sara K. Ahmed for catching the shoutout for Find me at @triciaebarvia on all the apps’s upcoming book #GetFree at Mid-MO LLA. This book is is a gift to teachers y’all!!!! I cannot wait for you to get your hands on it. ♥️📚♥️

A beautiful weekend filled with friends and learning and the most amazing teachers! Thank you Mid-MO LLA & CPS for bringing Sara Ahmed to the Fall Renewal Conference.

This makes my heart ache. 💔 My own internalized oppression was less observable. But it was there. Still unearthing it. Makes my work now so personal. So relevant. #FilAmYA 🇵🇭

One of my favorite tigers is in this video. 🖤💛 #MIZ instagram.com/reel/CxWiMAbsZ…

Crowdsourcing this answer, my brilliant ELA peeps. Find me at @triciaebarvia on all the apps Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul Lorena Germán Kim Parker aeriale celebrates native heritage month Tiana Silvas Julia E. Torres (is still trying to graduate) Brent Gilson Cody Miller NCTE

Yes! This will be amazing!!! The Very Asian Foundation

That terrifyingly exhilarating moment when you hit “send” for a piece of writing. 😳

Excited to be presenting this session at MMLLA this fall! Come learn research-supported approaches to making meaningful changes to your classroom to better love and support ALL of your students!

As I’ve been interviewing teachers for my follow up study, this same theme emerges. Teachers are professionals often working in deprofessionalizing conditions. Administration that respects & values them can make a world of difference.

I've got some news to share 🥳 My third book, Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms w/Dr. Sohyun An 안소현 and essbyul, comes out on December 1 with Routledge, our new publisher! Check out this gorgeous cover and please pre-order in November!
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#compellingtext for writing with my MSers this week. TY NIKKOLAS for the idea!

As we near 9/11, here is an engaging lesson I have used with my own children and students, using Spider-Man #36, written by J. Michael Straczynski to gain understanding through an influential comic and artifact pbs.org/newshour/class… PBS NewsHour Classroom Marvel Entertainment
#teach ertwitter #teach #teach er…

Ok Mizzou, I’ve spent the past 40 minutes trying to message our cashier’s office. I get an auto message that the email used to send students info is no longer serviced. I try using mizzou.us/askcashiers with no success. What’s the secret? #frustrated