Lee Micklin

Bookworm with gentle heart and fierce opinions. Retired for a minute. Librarian, Language Arts teacher, Seattle Public Schools.

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

@NDNlawyer @MayorofSeattle @SeattleMayorTim @SeattlePD @CMSaraNelson @CMAndrewJLewis @CMDanStrauss @Lisa_Herbold 911 is for life threatening emergencies!!! It will not work to save lives of people gum up the lines for other concerns! That said, I am very sorry to hear about the burglaries.

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

Aw.. we will miss you in SPS so much! Dr. Scarlett was one of the Illustrious to use the Garfield Career Center when I was there & I am proud to call her one of my students. ❤️💕

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

What do you think the Big Question was?

[Jonathan Friedman 📚 @jonfreadom]

Well, it happened. Someone banned a Berenstain Bears book...

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

@nhannahjones The Heartsong of Charging Elk by the late great James Welch

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

@tdwern @sean_socal08 @peterbakernyt @RobertGebelhoff @danielle_ivory @billmarshnyt @atmccann @albertsun Haha

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

My mom grew up picking cotton in the 1950s. Yesterday, she waited in line to once again pick her son to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. We’ve come a long way, but the work isn’t done!

Please vote, Georgia 🗳

[Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads/Insta)🌻 @AWeissmann_]

For those concerned that the appointment of a Special Counsel will delay things: just the opposite. Jack is a super fast, no-nonsense, and let's-cut-to-the-chase kind of guy. And now, with less DOJ bureaucracy in decision-making, the investigations can move faster.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

You actually have to know stuff to do this job.

[Melissa Weiss @melissaeweiss]

This clip of @missmayim and @iamgreenfield explaining (and then demonstrating) to @JKCorden how the shofar works is the High Holiday content I didn’t know I needed.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

Those items "did not belong to you. You took them home and you were not supposed to."
Kindergarten teacher has a talk with Donald about what he did:

[Duty To Warn 🔉 @duty2warn]

This is nothing short of brilliant and very much worth a read.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Staff in a Florida school district removed pictures of Black heroes from a classroom, citing them as "age inappropriate."
Images removed included MLK Jr., Harriett Tubman, George Washington Carver. This is the toxic environment Ron DeSantis has created.
https://t.co/rO1QAsBITU

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

Recitatif by Toni Morrison and My Man Bovine in Gorilla My Love by Toni Cade Bambara

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

The Purim Superhero? Really?

[Daniel Uhlfelder @DWUhlfelderLaw]

BREAKING: My home county, Walton County, Florida has moved forward on banning 58 books from Walton County Public School Libraries.

Here is the list:

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Pete Buttigieg just gave a masterclass on owning the conversation on Fox News.

[𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖎𝖛𝖞𝖉 𝕳𝖎𝖑𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖔𝖗𝖋 @dhaivyd]

Powerful #ta-nehisicoats quote shared by @juliaerin80 at #mnitem22

[John Schu @MrSchuReads]

A finished copy of The Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life just arrived at my house!!!!

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

Gerald Graff contends that it doesn't matter how radical and transgressive the content of your teaching is if the WAY you're teaching reflects the same old "pedagogical authoritarianism" - e.g., "failing to challenge the common assumption that teaching is a solo performance"

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

@WAEthnicStudies @TCastroGill @JeffTreistman Awesome! Glad you are doing this!!! A good reference (you can’t stop Librarians from giving good references lol) is David Baddiel’s “Jews Don’t Count”

[Lee Micklin @cleaglesread]

Oy

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

A teacher who periodically had her students “drop everything and read” their favorite books was asked whether she was still setting aside class time for that purpose. She replied, “We haven’t been doing ANY reading since we had to start preparing the kids for the reading test.”