Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin

[Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin @MiliLaff]

🎉 We did it. SB 2821 - the bill for free period products in all @HIDOE808 schools - passed the final committee hurdle yesterday. It now moves to the Hawaii House for a final vote.

16 years as a teacher & I don’t think it gets better than this. ❤️ #PublicSchoolProud #EndPPinHI

[Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin @MiliLaff]

✌️ Twitter - fellow radical educators, see ya on the other platforms.

I don’t know if we’ll ever find a space like 2016-2020 EduTwitter, but I’ll stay hopeful.

[HSTA @HSTAvoice]

“Years ago, someone once asked what ‘radicalized’ me as a teacher,” Milianta-Laffin said. “Looking back, if wanting our students housed, fed, cared for, and given the best free and public education possible is a radical idea, then yeah, I’m a radical.” https://t.co/sBnJobCUj2

[Jill @TeachinginHI]

My mom, a principal, told newly hired teachers: “Your moral obligation is to push up against the system. I’m not saying break it down. I’m saying ASK QUESTIONS. Make us better.”

🤯@HSG_HI @teacher2teacher @MiliLaff @RyanCanoneoM @KristiOda @HIDOE808 @ncte @edutopia @hawaiiest

[Mrs Whatsit's burner phone @MadeleineLEngle]

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” #WrinkleInTime

[The Women's Game @WomensGameMIB]

Marta magic 😈

🎥 @OurGameMagazine

[Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin @MiliLaff]

@TeachinginHI I can get salty about admin asking teachers to “find our WHY” but for real, this is it. The ‘glimmers’ keep us going. Thanks for sharing your light

[Jill @TeachinginHI]

Witnessing my former student’s folklórica performance & later a chat w her about her USC experience.

When they leave hs, I always hope that their dreams are realized and that they have the determination to reach them.

Times like these I love being a teacher so deeply. 🩵

[Secretary Miguel Cardona @SecCardona]

If you support eliminating the Department of Education, you do not support our students. Period.

@USEDgov provides funding for:
✅Students w/ disabilities
✅Rural students
✅Programs that make college affordable

This would be bad for students, and bad for America.

[We are all Field Negroes now @TheBlackCyde]

Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them

[Jill Twiss @jilltwiss]

I have said this before, but it's weird when you realize that what you thought was rock bottom was actually somewhere around rock middle

[Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin @MiliLaff]

Ready for class tomorrow @CrookedMedia

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

You can really tell who has 2016 trauma and who was too young to remember.

[reb @rebmasel]

“what radicalized you?” probably my basic human empathy

[Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin @MiliLaff]

So I enjoyed today’s pod, but it felt like @jonlovett was Sam and @JessicaTarlov was Ainsley.

So curious what’s being said around the @CrookedMedia office today.

[Jay Wamsted @JayWamsted]

When I taught HS we used to ask what the MS teachers were doing with their time

Now that I teach MS I know. Surviving. That’s what MS teachers are doing

It’s all a mess, y’all. Everyone is doing their level best to get some educating accomplished. Just back off the blame game

[Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin @MiliLaff]

@SenBrianSchatz @brianschatz Constituent here 👋

IVF helped us become parents. Mahalo for standing with the infertility community and all of those who need help building their families.

Blessings to baby Nalu!

[March For Our Lives @AMarch4OurLives]

Yeah we do have "after birth" executions they're called school shootings.

[The Women's Game @WomensGameMIB]

THANK YOU ALEX 🫶

And in the 13th minute, Alex Morgan leaves the pitch for the final time. The No. 13 that we've all grown up with, looked up to, and loved hangs up her boots. Your impact as a player and a person will live on. There's only one AM13 🥹

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

I get asked why I went from being open to limited school voucher systems, to being a fierce critic now.

Answers:

1) the results came in—and they were horrific.

2) what’s kept them going is a Christian Nationalist moment I reject and denounce.

It’s okay to change your mind.

[Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @Chasten]

“Ask grandma to watch them for free” is not policy.

[Sarah “Mili” Milianta-Laffin @MiliLaff]

Your podcast challenges me @citizenstewart. I came to teaching via TFA & lost my youth to teacher martyrdom in TX. My friends burned out at KIPP, YES Prep, IDEA charters

I found union support & I’m not looking back. Yet, I’m 19 years in & only make $60k. https://t.co/J7w76sIjQs

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I was touched to see Gus Walz’s joy when his dad @Tim_Walz took the stage last night. Thankful for you showing us all what real love looks like, Gus.

Let’s be a nation that embraces this kind of warmth and vulnerability, instead of making fun or mocking it. We could all use some of Gus’s example in our own lives.