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Tricia Ebarvia

@triciaebarvia.bsky.social

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Educator • #DisruptTexts • #31DaysIBPOC • Institute 4 Racial Equity in Literacy • Opinions my own • 🇵🇭🇺🇸 • she/her/siya • Author of Get Free: Antibias Literacy Instruction for Stronger Readers, Writers, and Thinkers https://linktr.ee/triciaebarvia

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George Janeteas @georgejaneteas.bsky.social · Mar 24

How can we create writing spaces and places where students can express themselves and make something beautiful?

This is the essential question that #TDSB Beginning Teachers and their Mentors have begun to explore in a professional learning series led by the incredible @triciaebarvia.bsky.social

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Apr 21

It was amazing seeing you in person!!!!

Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Apr 21

PS - in case you are new to me or @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social , here's a little more about us (and of course, more info at TheIREL.org) #IREL25

Headshots and bios of the co-founders or IREL included

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Apr 21

Join us! Register today at TheIREL.org and then mark the dates in your calendar! And then SHARE widely!

Bring a team to IREL this summer and debrief together on Day 2. (Please note that space may be limited for Day 2 depending on number of registrants.) #IREL25

Black text on white background. Includes QR code leading to registration page.

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Apr 21

In thinking about a path forward for IREL, we reflected both on this collective moment and the decisions each of us as individuals faces navigating the world right now.

Grief and rage. Hope and determination. Resilience and resistance. Clarity and commitment.

In community, freedom. #IREL25

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Apr 21

Day 2 is the Call-to-Action Workshop.

Consider this an IREL intensive, where we reflect, discuss, share, and plan a path forward. This will be a practical, hands-on workshop led by members of our IREL team.

THU, July 10: 9 AM to 11:15 AM ET

#IREL25

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Apr 21

Day 1 of #IREL25 is an online TEACH-IN. @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social and I will lead with a keynote, "A Toolkit for Humanity," followed by 4 special topic sessions designed to address key issue we are facing.

WED, July 9: 9 AM to 3:15 PM ET

Stay tuned as we announce session presenters each Monday!

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Apr 21

The Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy is BACK!

Join @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social and I on July 9 and 10 for an ONLINE gathering focused on our most urgent challenges as educators right now.

Register at TheIREL.org. ⬇️ #IREL25

Teaching Towards Freedom
The Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy
July 9 and 10

ONLINE GATHERING FOR
ORGANIZING.
fortifying.
RESISTING.

Join us in BUILDING
a toolkit for humanity
to MEET THIS MOMENT.

Learn more at TheIREL.org

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Jan 10

Thank you!!!

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Nancy Penchev @penchevable.bsky.social · Jan 9

Saw this article
estonianworld.com/culture/what...

What role does art serve in times of war and suffering?

Estonian and expatriate artists share their views on the importance of art in times of crisis along with works that speak to trauma, suffering, hope and empathy.

estonianworld.com

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Cristina Paul @cristinapaul333.bsky.social · Jan 9

Dispatch From The Ruins: (School The Eleventh Incitement) from Ross Gay’s Inciting Joy is all about making “beautiful shit together” in spite of and under oppressive educational systems. The entire essay is utterly delightful and inspiring.

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Jan 10

Wonderful! Thank you!

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Jan 9

ISO of quotes, essays, articles that speak to the importance of making art / creating / imagination during dark times. Let me know what you have and I'll share as well.

(also, still getting my footing around here and not sure with # s to use? #edusky #DisruptTexts #ELA ?)

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Dec 21

I also wonder/am frustrated by how many might see Wicked (and love it) and not see the ways that fascism and racism and sexism are operating in both the film and well… everywhere.

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Dec 21

I didn’t love Wizard of Oz, more that it was just one of those movies I was supposed to love. When I think back to the scenes that stood out to me most in that movie, it was when the Wicked witch was melting and then when Dorothy was reunited with her grandparents.

Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Dec 21

I do think that it could be part of a text set on Whiteness (and White feminism specifically) that would include Succession, the Barbie movie, and Gatsby. If I was teaching a college class, we’d look at the characters of Glinda, Siobhan, Barbie, and Daisy.

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Dec 21

Okay, I have never seen Wicked the musical nor read Wicked the book. I grew up with Wizard of Oz though. But other than that, I walked into seeing Wicked the movie today mostly not knowing much (well, except for ‘Defying Gravity’).

I have feeling/thoughts and trying to sort through them.

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Dec 9

Ha!

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Dec 6

If you’re at #PoCC, come through!!!

Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social · Dec 6

Looking forward to being in community with NAIS #PoCC participants at our session, “Liberation as Stance: Literacy Tool kits for Humanity.”
While our books *sold out* at the NAIS bookstore @triciaebarvia.bsky.social and I are each giving a copy away at our session. Join us!

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Andrea @teachbk.bsky.social · Dec 6

December is really confusing for non-Christian kids in public schools. Holiday shows and decorations and constant Christmas music playing. I don't know if teachers really consider all of this from their perspective.

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Mo Daley @ofdaleys.bsky.social · Dec 6

#Getfree by @triciaebarvia.bsky.social is today’s #bookaday. What a thoughtful and well-written exploration of antibias literacy instruction. I’ll come back to this one again and again.

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Dec 6

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for reading and sharing! 🥰 I hope it is helpful! Please reach out if I can answer any questions!

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · Dec 4

I stand by this, even given the stellar history of Black protest.

Black folks are always going to stand up for civil rights and human rights! But NO, you are NOT going to see the vast majority of us outside if there's a military coup... are you serious?!

We vote the way we do SO WE DON'T HAVE TO.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · Dec 3

No, we aren't going to be like the brave folks over in South Korea. Do you know how many individuals and institutions are scrambling to obey in advance right now?!

Preparing a defensive strategy is one thing. Capitulating all of your ground more than a month before the right takes over? Sigh.

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Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Nov 30

Exactly! Observed too many people saying things like “it’s all the same and what’s the big deal” and making false equivalences to generative AI. It’s really concerning.