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NYC x OKC public ed advocate + pro bibliophile 📚✍🍎🤓 | Valid teacher, temporarily invalid cert | she/her/hers | JRCoE grad student | Opinions mine #OklaEd

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🧵1/2: I will not apologize for sharing publicly available information about library access with my students. My livelihood will never be as important as someone’s life or right to read what they want. I fully intend to fight this revocation and the law that enables it: HB 1775.
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The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted unanimously to strip former Norman teacher Summer Boismier of her license. Two others face hearings.
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🧵2/2: As always, I am proud to stand with students, teachers, fellow Oklahomans, and fellow Americans in support of both the freedom to read and the freedom to be. #OklaEd #BooksUnbanned
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🧵1/15: Five days later &, good grief, I honestly still don't know what to say. I've never had a teaching certificate revoked before last week, let alone revoked for informing HS Ss that libraries exist online too.
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🧵1/3 Truly, I am humbled. The amount of support sent my way these last 2 weeks has been nothing short of absolutely massive. To all the folks who’ve voiced concerns for my safety, thank you. I have a place to stay for now and absolutely no plans to stop talking.
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The teacher in Norman who shared the Brooklyn Online Library code has been threatened and doxxed. She no longer feels safe at her home and has permanently fled. If anyone knows her, please have her reach out to me. We need to set her up a fund and help keep her safe.
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🧵5/15: The Oklahoma State Board of Education (OSBE), the entity that enforces these draconian consequences, is currently composed mostly of members who have never held teaching certificates or taught in public schools or even taught professionally at all.
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🧵14/15: So what does one do? How does one make rent? How does one eat? How does one live w/ the consequences of someone else's vendetta? If you're not several shades of livid, you should be. But don't just be angry; be an advocate. Get off here & get out there. Go do something.
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🧵4/15: I accept the consequences of my actions, though I will also fight those consequences w/ everything I have. But what I'll never accept are the consequences for young people whose stories are required by bigotry to be hidden behind butcher paper.
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🧵3/15: ... my Ss--especially those from LGBTQ+ &/or BIPOC communities--were (and still are) faced w/ a much greater loss, the loss of stories that tell their stories, stories that speak to the fundamental parts of themselves & the lives they recognize as similar to their own.
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🧵2/15: I taught for 8 years & 1 day. Eight years & 1 day, and that 1 day back in August 2022 ended up being one of the most consequential of my career, but not for me. While temporarily losing that teaching certificate feels a bit like losing a fundamental part of myself, ...
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🧵9/15: However, reinstatement is not an option for some, including me. An Oklahoma teaching certification can be permanently revoked for "egregious misconduct," such as informing Ss about library eCards since they can't borrow their books at school due to an anti-literacy law.
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A 🧵 to end all 🧵s ⚠️CW: Profanity, references to violence, suicidal ideation⚠️ Please proceed with your mental health in mind.
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🧵7/15: Per Title 210: Due Process, if a T's license is revoked in OK, OSBE notifies superintendents in all state school districts. Notification is also given to each US state & territory, to the extent possible. This is my fate because I mentioned a library card in class.
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🧵6/15: Considering OSBE's proclivity for weaponizing teaching certificates@ the behest of OSDE, here's what #OklaEd Ts, your friends & family, could face for educating responsibly, possessing 📚, affirming Ss, expressing opinions, or even just existing the "wrong" way.
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🧵11/15: I live in NY. In order to obtain a valid teaching certificate here, I'd have to disclose my OK revocation & undergo evaluation by NYSED. That does not guarantee a license will be granted. It doesn't replace what I've lost. It doesn't put the books back on the shelves.
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🧵8/15: Again, re: Title 210, a T can apply for reinstatement after 5 years or after the "expungement of the offense(s) that formed the basis for the revocation by a court." My nephew just started kindergarten. He will be in 4th grade by the time I could apply for reinstatement.
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🧵15/15: Sources: (7-9) (7, 10) (10) (11-12) (11-12) (11-12) (13) (13)
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🧵1/7: As one of the first T's to lose their license to a "divisive concepts" law, I've developed a severe form of PTSD. While I am unequivocally grateful for everyone's support, I feel this overwhelming pressure to live up to an impossible standard. I am no hero, no martyr.
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🧵13/15: School starts for most in NYC on 9/5, so it is likely too late to secure a public teaching job for the 24-25 SY, especially considering all the added bars I would have to clear having a revocation on my record, while my adjudicator misses every bar & still falls forward.
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🧵10/15: While it varies, most states generally do not accept revoked or expired certificates from other states. If a T moves to a new state looking to get certified, that T would have to start from scratch in obtaining a valid license. This includes passing any required exams.
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🧵12/15: NYC DOE may have extra criteria, even if NYSED grants a cert. An individual school district may still decline to hire a T w/ a revoked cert. Most apps will contain Qs like these & not nearly enough space to explain how scared your home state is of Brooklyn library cards.
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Sticks and stones #oklaed #UniteAgainstBannedBooks #RiseHigh @BKLYNlibrary
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⚠️CW: Suicidal ideation, PTSD 🧵1/7: I'm not okay. I doubt I'll be okay tomorrow either. It's like I've been paralyzed atop a roller coaster for months now, drowning in adrenaline. And the longer the ride, the more I feel myself getting flattened by the forces at play.
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🧵1/3: About a month ago, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) de facto revoked my teaching cert by allowing it to expire & refusing to grant renewal until the state board (OSBE) votes on the legality of a library card, a vote OSBE has refused to take for a year now.
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OSBE will "vote" TOMORROW on the validity of my teaching certificate. Let me remind #OklaEd TODAY that anyone anywhere in the US ages 13-21 can get a free @BKLYNlibrary eCard, which allows access to BPL’s full eBook & audiobook collection + its databases.
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🧵3/3 To all the amazing humans who’ve offered to aid this fight financially, let’s make sure NHS Ts hear that ❤️ too. It’s time to raise both our voices and our 💵. Sound off in the comments, and let us know what you’re doing, where, and how we can help. 🧡🖤🐅🧡🖤
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🧵2/3 Truth be told, this isn’t and shouldn’t be about me. This is and should, however, be about the #oklaed Ss and Ts who have been doing the most with the least. My former colleagues in the @gonormantigers #elaok department are the real ones doing the real work right now.
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🧵1/6: Having taught ELA for 8 yrs, I'm betting OSBE's order revoking my teaching cert could pass neither a judicial nor a teacher review. Since I'm more familiar w/ a classroom than a courtroom, let's judge this thing as a quasi-expository essay of sorts, shall we? #OklaEd
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While you attempt to contort the connotations of “woke” to fit the limitations of your narrow worldview, the rest of us are already awake, and we are rising. And we are raising our voices because we know that it takes every member of the chorus to make the harmony.
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🧵3/3: #Oklahoma , this is meant to keep your Ts scared, & in turn, quiet. No one's silence will protect #OklaEd from those in power who'd sell the promises of public schooling to the highest bidder. Please fight back. Show up. Speak out. Engage locally. Vote responsibly. Repeat.
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This certified educator has at least one more lesson to teach. See y'all soon. 🤓 #oklaed #BooksUnbanned
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Midterms are approaching. It is beyond shameful that even one educator would have to spend even $1 of their own money to do a job that pays dividends for all of us. VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
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🧵1/6: Two years ago I did the most brat thing I could & stood against soft censorship & state-sanctioned bigotry in the least demure way possible. I had substantial privilege in doing what I did. And as l've said before, my only regret is I didn't do it sooner. I stand by that.
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Brooklyn Public Library is offering any American teen unlimited digital + audio access to banned + challenged books. Called Books UnBanned, this is a teen-led effort to fight the removal of reading materials from schools + libraries across the US.
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🧵1/3: Oklahoma derives its name from the Choctaw words “okla” and “humma,” meaning “red people.” On #IndigenousPeoplesDay , a T might understandably want to connect this holiday to classroom instruction, let’s say Standard 9-12.4.R.3 in the OAS for ELA concerning word parts.
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I am not another political point for you to collect. I am a person who seems to have a closer relationship with my God than any of those “fellow believers” currently calling for my professional crucifixion on Facebook. And what was my crime? Encouraging your child to read.
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@triciaebarvia I wish my district did more (anything, really) to safeguard the mental health of Ts. We're on a hybrid schedule w/ both F2F and asynchronous simultaneously at all times. We keep talking about the need to put Ss first, but I wonder why that seems to mean we put Ts last.
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🧵7/7: Despite my own battles, I get the need to be mindful of my privilege too since members of marginalized communities must confront continuous, state-sanctioned violence & erasure daily. I have a duty to speak up & speak out in support of their stories, no matter what.
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There is nothing dehumanizing you can say that I haven’t already said to myself. My darkest nights are already behind me, so I will continue to hold my head up in the broad light of day and meet the sun’s gaze unflinching.
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🧵5/7: Currently, my coaster's wheels have all but fallen off. It turns out that having one's livelihood threatened for cheap partisan pandering by the human equivalent of "sound and fury, signifying nothing" isn't exactly the bee's knees for one's mental health.
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#UniteAgainstBannedBooks #BansOffOurBooks #RepresentationMatters #edutwitter #PublicSchoolProud #FightOn #RiseHigh
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But you grown men who spend your days spitting into $60 microphones ordered online the moment a Black man had the audacity to aim for the presidency have no right to engage in cruel and completely unnecessary speculation on my gender, my sexuality, my clothes, my hair, my voice.
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🧵2/3: This means my livelihood is left in limbo, awaiting judgement from a gaggle of aggressively unqualified sycophants. Until either (1) OSBE votes on revocation or (2) OSDE drops its "investigation," my cert stays "pending review." This is not due process; this is cowardice.
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Sending #oklaed ❤️ on Advocacy Day from the Big 🍎 w/ the OOTD #Okleg #PublicSchoolProud
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🧵1/13: In Oklahoma, "take a look, it's in a book" can cost a school district its accreditation &/or a teacher their livelihood. But if we're being truthful here, the phrase should probably read "we're going to take a look, and you better not have that book."
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🧵4/7: I encouraged Ss to read books, whatever books they want/need to read. I mentioned a public library in NY that could help since some stories in OK are now considered contraband. Unforgivable, I know, and apparently, grounds for getting stripped of my teaching certification.
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You don’t scare me because you don’t speak for me ... and you never will.
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We owe it to the students sitting in classrooms across the country right now to properly fund these spaces and fully embrace their stories.
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🧵7/7: Call out & correct mis- & disinfo when you encounter them. Let your Ts & librarians know you are there & you care. (Let their bosses know too.) Show up to your local board meetings & speak. And run for office yourself!! You'd be surprised how far your voice can carry.
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I have been truly humbled by the deluge of familiar faces and complete strangers asking how they can help financially. Our nation’s public school teachers have paid too high a price–both literally and figuratively–for far too long.
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05.23.23 🧵 #OklaEd #BooksUnbanned
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Please be diligent and check your child's candy this Halloween! I just found @BKLYNlibrary in a Snickers. Oh, the horror...the literary subgenre, that is. No words! That's the way I like my candy bars, at least. Truly frightening stuff! #oklaed #QRCodeResistance #BooksUnbanned
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**clears throat** Would do it again. Will do it again. In half a heartbeat. #oklaed #BooksUnbanned #priorities
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🧵6/7: I'm struggling to find motivation to eat. I'm not sleeping most nights. I've cried on just about every block in my borough. I'm constantly batting back the panic that only subsides when I'm unconscious. And I'm fighting desperately against the urge to just end it all.
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This is not quiet work, and it is constant. My classroom library remains locked inside an OK storage shed. 300 Ss & counting have since lost access to those 500+ 📚. I'm still fighting. This isn't quiet work, but it is important. And no one, including me, can do it alone. #OklaEd
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For #BannedBooksWeek this year, we’re returning to our award-winning series #BorrowedandBanned because the fight isn’t over! In 2023, the @ALALibrary documented a 65% increase in the number of book titles challenged across the country.
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🧵3/7: If my OK cert is revoked, I won't be able to teach in the state where I was born, where I was educated, and where I was an educator for almost a decade. I won't be able to teach anywhere w/out facing considerable obstacles to re-certification. And for what? What did I do?
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In the meantime, if you are a teacher, drop your list in the replies. If you’re looking to help, you can also head over to @GivingClassroom , @DonorsChoose , and/or @Support_a_teach .
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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Resources for Youth in Crisis:
Resources for Youth in Crisis - ConnectSafely

In case of an immediate threat or danger, call 911 from the U.S. or the emergency number for your country. Suicidal Thoughts  Suicide Prevention Lifeline

connectsafely.org
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🧵6/7: You can also listen & support the voices that should be centered: marginalized youth. Call your legislators & keep calling. Register to vote. Make sure you're on the roles. Have a plan to get to the polls. Educate yourself on issues of censorship & intellectual freedom.
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In her poem “Speech to the Young,” Gwendolyn Brooks writes, “ ‘Even if you are not ready for day/it cannot always be night.’/You will be right./For that is the hard home-run.” I am a high-school English teacher. I once saw a student lick the underside of a desk on a $5 dare.
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For the out-of-context crowd, this is the tweet to screenshot. I, the Norman teacher, am aware of your comments. I’ve heard your self-produced podcasts and seen your Facebook posts dripping in cherry-picked Bible verses. And last night, your venom-laced rhetoric finally landed.
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HB 1775: Before and after | My Ss no longer have access to books by BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or gender non-conforming authors because state leadership has spent the last year loudly labeling these books and their stories/perspectives as pornography, as indoctrination. 1/3
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#OklaEd , know I'll always in all ways work beside you to support all Ss all the time. I know you'll continue to affirm your Ss, whoever they are, however you can, even though some people in power seek to elevate themselves by erasing our most marginalized. Dissent like hell.
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OSBE will "vote" TOMORROW on the validity of my teaching certificate. Let me remind #OklaEd TODAY that anyone anywhere in the US ages 13-21 can get a free @BKLYNlibrary eCard, which allows access to BPL’s full eBook & audiobook collection + its databases.
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And last night, I had to call that somebody to come sit with me while I cried because I didn’t know what I might do if left alone with the words intended to bury me alive.
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🧵2/7: I was starting to find my footing, starting to step off the roller coaster ride on which I'd been stuck since August. I was excited about being finally able to exhale. It was then that I was notified the SDE 1,500 mi away in OK had moved to revoke my teaching certificate.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
In an answer practically tailor-made for TL;DR, the absolute simplest way to say it is this: LOVE. No asterisks, no ellipses, no conjunctions. No qualifications or hesitations, just love pure and simple and all the more profound because of it.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
This is the personal cost of a culture war that weaponizes ignorance, that willfully (or worse) mistakes it for righteousness. As a quasi-90s kid, I’m compelled to ask, “WWJD?”
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 month
🧵3/7: And who am I w/ all my unearned privilege if I don't use it to extend a hand as together we climb? But increasingly, I notice myself going quiet lest I say the irresponsible thing, because the immediacy of this moment means the difference between demagoguery & democracy.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
#oklaed #elaok #BookBans #EdScare #teachertwitter #FreeTheBooks #BooksUnbanned
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
We can read so much of ourselves in the world if we only know where to look. But the even more valuable endeavor, I think, is to realize that we can read so much of ourselves in each other too.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
It’s common knowledge that people are capable of some frankly breathtaking levels of cruelty. I’ve known that for a while now, but I’ve never known exactly what that meant until recently.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
"They say I did something bad / Then why's it feel so good?" I mentioned a library card to my HS Ss last Aug. Now OSDE is revoking my teaching certificate. 🤔 BPL eCard (ages 13-21): Intellectual Freedom Teen Council (virtual):
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
#oklaed #elaok #BannedBooksWeek #QRCodeResistance #BooksUniteUs #ClearTheList
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 year
🧵3/3: Stories are lives. Stories are lifelines. To read freely is to live fully. I am the author of my story. As such, I will not allow those bent on bigotry to dictate my next chapter. In my version, I assure you, Goody Proctor talks back.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
I have seen parents with upside-down American flags as their profile pictures promise vengeance for what some public leaders are still loudly saying I supposedly did to their children. But these same netizens seem to forget that I am somebody’s child too.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 month
🧵2/7: I'm a person, just trying to do the next right thing. But I also recognize there are folks--including Ts and Ss, friends & family--who can neither speak out nor speak up by virtue of their race or class or gender or sexual orientation or disability status, for instance.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 month
🧵5/7: If you're wondering how you can hope, here are some orgs doing the work w/ a capital "W." They could use support too. @BKLYNlibrary : @EveryLibrary : @DonorsChoose : @dosomething :
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
And if you spot a 🐅, let them hear you roar: .
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 month
🧵4/7: I gave my 1st interview in mos. today, and I'm terrified my responses will fail the folks they aim to support--historically marginalized Ss, colleagues, communities. Failure happens sometimes but so does hope. I'm trying to focus on the latter. Hold me to account on that.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
🧵7/7: All I did was encourage my readers to get library cards. I’m not sorry. There are no winners when it comes to censorship, only stories lost and possibilities squandered. So what’s your story? What will you say to the readers in your life come November 9?
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
I’ve been described as a “vile leftist” who someone hoped would become the victim of a violent crime. My picture in an article prompted someone to say their lunch was officially canceled for the day. Someone else added that this whole thing could be solved by a ball of lead.
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Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
8 months
🧵1/3: This is an excerpt of the exchange between yours truly (A) & OSDE counsel (Q) re: the book Stamped: A Remix by @JasonReynolds83 & @ibramxk during a hearing to revoke my teaching certificate. Citing OK's HB 1775, OSDE considers such a text "unlawful r*cist instruction."
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 year
🧵06.21.23, 9:30 am CST | Third time's a charm for this #oklaed teacher?
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
As I arrived home to boxes and boxes of my life’s work, my classroom’s contents (the books, the posters, the Takis bags, the notes and graduation announcements and Taco Bell coloring-book pages) haunting the darkness of an otherwise empty apartment, you finally drew blood.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 month
It's pronounced [BWAH-me-ā]. #OSBE It's also pronounced [vOHt]. #OklaEd #Oklahoma
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 year
🧵1/3: I am tired. I am terrified. But I am no NPC. I am no easily dismissed casualty of just another culture war. And I am certainly no one's unwitting pawn. I am no hero, but I am human. I am a reader. I am a protagonist if the plot demands it. I am a fully certified teacher.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 months
🧵1/11: Normally, during #BackToSchool season, I would be a ball of nerves filled not w/ air but anticipation, bouncing skyward w/ a little bit of physics & a whole lot of hope. But this year, I feel more like a chalk outline--empty inside, a poor facsimile of the person I was.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
@ryanmwalters I see your QR code, and raise you another. #QRCodeResistance #NelsonInNovember #TeamNelson #ChooseJoy
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 months
🧵6/6: You've learned about book bans; you've learned what to do about them; here's your chance to do the damn thing now ... & again in November. Laws come & some should definitely go. Civic engagement as muscle memory? That's forever, though. @UABookBans
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 year
This #Halloween , I’m going as my 100% still valid #OklaEd teaching certificate. To bigots haunted by 📚 you scream go bump in the night, the people in those pages scare you in your smallness, but they aren't the actual monsters. And neither am I. This T isn’t afraid of you. Boo!
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
Imagine a teacher being unable &/or unwilling to answer questions in the moment before an unpredictable audience from anyone who isn't also the dashboard of their car. Such a person should probably pursue a different line of work. #oklaed #TeamNelson #Election2022 #votED
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 year
🧵2/3: I will not beg for what belongs to me, but I will open a window so the room can hear the voices of #OklaEd , voices belonging to Ts & Ss, voices that cannot be so easily silenced. I will not speak for them, but I will speak in support of them ... again & again & again.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
1 year
Is anybody out there? Please, I am begging. Please.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
@GovStitt Hi, it’s the “Norman teacher” here. This AM, I booked a one-way ✈️ out of OK. Want to know why? You. You’re the problem. It’s you. #OklaEd Ss & Ts deserve better. I’ll be working to make sure my OK kids & colleagues are closer to “better” by the next Statehood Day. Imagine that.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
I’ve been called a “thing,” an “it,” a “creature” even the Clintons wouldn’t touch, and a c*** from California.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
19 days
🧵6/6: HB 1775 is an intentionally porous conduit for bigotry, the moldy Swiss cheese of legislation, if you will. Ergo, it comes as no surprise that this justification for revocation is actually just a profoundly stupid work of fiction.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
Debate my ideas, fine. Those are fair game.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
19 days
🧵2/6: The thesis--revoke her certificate--is the rhetorical equivalent of pineapple pizza, discernible but indefensible. While it does attempt to explain, that explanation's ridiculous. From page 1, what little credibility (ethos) the author & signatory have is already cracking.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
Representation matters. Stories (and who gets to tell them) matter. As a teacher, but more importantly as a person, I refuse to be party to this censorship. Do with that what you will. But whatever you do, please vote @GraceForOK on 8/23. #oklaed #elaok #OKleg #fREADom 3/3
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
🧵1/15: "Just do the next right thing." This is the mantra the voice in my head has been using to drag the rest of me out of bed and into the world each and every day since August 20, 2022.
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@MsBoismier_ELA
Ms. Boismier, M.Ed.
@MsBoismier_ELA
2 years
I see a certain someone is back to using a beige car interior as the backdrop for his partisan drivel. In completely unrelated news, my #oklaed #elaok teaching certificate is still active. #QRCodeResistance #BooksUnbanned #TeamNelson
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