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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

#MillysJourneyBooks are out in the world taking space and bringing smiles to children—this makes my heart so happy ♥️📚🔥 #BookSky #EduSky

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Came home to find this beautiful gifts from @mrsspinasclass.bsky.social — Congratulations on the release of her new book IGNITING REAL CHANGE FOR MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS 🔥📚

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Carly Spina @mrsspinasclass.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Congratulations to @emilyfrancis.bsky.social on her newest book releases!!! Celebrate with her by ordering these two amazing books!! Paper copy & e-book available on Amazon 🛒 www.amazon.com/Millys-Journ...

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Book birthday 🎉 #MillysJourneyBooks series is now available! Milly’s Journey: Book 1️⃣: Where the Dreams Take Root Book 2️⃣: The Letters in My Backpack Paper copy & e-book available on Amazon 🛒 www.amazon.com/Millys-Journ...

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

When your friends buy your books the minute is available 🙌🏽😭 #Grateful #MillysJourneyBooks

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

#MillysJourneyBooks will be available in just a few hours!!! Releasing MAÑANA 🫶🏽🔥📚

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

e-Book—NOW on Amazon! Follow Milly’s powerful story in Where the Dreams Take Root and The Letters in My Backpack—a bilingual series about courage, hope, and finding your voice. Start the journey today! #MillysJourneyBooks #librosenespañol #librosbilingües #DignidadLiteraria #AuthenticLit

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Mark your calendar! #MillysJourneyBooks’ birthday is Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 🎉🗓️

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

#MillysJourneyBooks 🔥📚 — Book 1️⃣ available 7/1/25

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Mark your calendar 🗓️ #MillysJourneyBooks, a series of 4 bilingual books, based on my personal experiences, will be available soon! First 2 books will be available Tuesday, July 1st, 2025!! ✳️ For early released copies, visit the author’s website — www.InspiringELLs.com

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thank you, ESC Northeast, Ohio 🙌🏽 What a great learning time with passionate educators in Cleveland, Ohio First PD using my picture books — #MillysJourneyBooks were a big hit 📚🔥

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My heart is full 🫶🏽 Grateful for co-workers who support my work! The Eudy family & Cline family made time for #MillysJourneyBooks — Having them read these first 2 books in the series as a family and discussing topics shared in my books (especially about immigration) is a dream come true 📚

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

One of my first Beta readers—Wilson, a kindergartener in the #DualLanguage program ♥️👏🏽🌎 Milly’s Journey series coming July 1st #MillysJourneyBooks

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

New EXIT score APPROVED 🙌🏽 The U.S. Dep of Ed approved NC’s amendment to (ESSA) state plan. An overall composite score of 4.5 on the WIDA ACCESS test for Ss to exit English learner status. At CHS we had 13 MLs meet the EXIT criteria! 👏🏽

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Sue Massa @smassa.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

13-yr-old Camarria Williams made a remarkable discovery when she found a compound with potential cancer-fighting properties in goose poop from Garfield Park, Chicago. This surprising find happened while participating in the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab, a STEM program in collaboration with the

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ValentinaESL @valentinaesl.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This series is so special. It will be a valuable asset to any classroom library.

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Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

How do you encourage Ss to think about their thinking? 🤔 Here's how T @emilyfrancis.bsky.social‬ does it: #EduSky

Anchor chart titled "Metacognition Thinking Stems:" offering a series of sentence stems such as "I'm thinking ... ," "I'm wondering ... ," etc.

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Sarah Collins, my former cooperating teacher, loves my first 2 picture books in my #MillysJourneyBooks series 🙏🏽🔥 Check out her review!! She also provided very valuable insights to make the books so much better!!

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Book" * + Review
When I read Emily Francis's new series, "Milly's Journey," my first thought was, "I can't wait to read these books to students." Emily's description of her childhood joys and challenges parallels many of the stories my students tell me about their early years and their countries of origin. While students are in my classroom, I want to give them the opportunity to tell their own stories, see themselves reflected in literature, and grow their English skills. "Milly's Journey" will allow me to achieve all three goals as my scholars use English to compare Emily's stories to their own lives. Reading the entire Milly's Journey series will certainly help children see that their own stories are, in fact, beautiful and worth sharing with the world. These sweet yet meaningful children's books get 5 stars from this teacher!
MILLY'S JOURNEY
Where the Dreams Take Root
LLY'S JOUR
Letters in My Backpa
Sarah Collins
EL TRAYECTO DE MILLY
DONDE LOS SUEÑOS ECHAN RAÍCES
By Emily Francis
TRAYECTO DE MI
ZAS CARTAS EN MI MOCH

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Book Review 🔥📚 Thank you, @valentinaesl.bsky.social for making time for #MillysJourneyBooks — your review on book 1 & 2 means so much to me.

MILLY'S JOURNEY
Where the Dreams Take Root
LLY'S JOUR
Letters in My Back
BOOK geview
EL TRAYECTO DE MILLY
DONDE LOS SUEÑOS ECHAN RAÍCES
By Emily Francis
TRAY
ZAS CA
Valentina Gonzalez
Rooted Linguistics
"These books
are very well written and a gift to readers!"
"As I read the first two picture books from the Milly's Journey series, I felt as if I was taken into Milly's childhood with her. These remarkable narratives will surely be stories that many of our students can connect with. I loved how the books are written in English and in Spanish allowing for an equal language experience. Reading about Milly's life adventures allowed me to learn about the journey that one family had, a journey that was different from mine, yet still a journey I can relate to. Now I can't wait for the third book in this series to come out!"

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wow!!! Look at all the sticky notes 🤩 📝📚 My former cooperating teacher, mentor, friend, and colleague read my picture books and provided a ton of great feedback. Sarah’s teacher perspective helped so much!! 🔥 Milly’s series coming SOON!!! #MillysJourneyBooks

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Heading to Galena Park ISD this week! I’m excited to share a learning day with #DualLanguage & ESL teachers in Galena Park in Houston, TX It’s summer learning time! ☀️🤓📚🍎

Galena Park ISD
MULTILINGUAL
SUMMER/ACADEMY
May 30, 2025
Before you pack your bags for your summer trip, spend the day with us preparing for a successful new 2025-2026 school year!
Dual Language and ESL teachers will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of professional development sessions that will focus on best practices, engaging instructional strategies for all content areas, and strategies to motivate emergent bilingual students. The sessions will be brought to you by an amazing line-up of national, state, and locally known presenters who share the same passion to help students become successful bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural
scholars.
CLICK TO REGISTER IN EDUPHORIA FOR MULTILINGUAL SUMMER ACADEMY KEYNOTE SPEAKER/GENERAL SESSION
Keynote Speaker Astrid Emily Francis
if you
only knew
Letters from an Immigrant Teacher
EMILY FRANCIS
Astrid Emily Francis
Astrid Emily Francis is a nationally recognized English as a Second Language teacher at Concord High School in Concord, North Carolina. She serves students at various English proficiency levels. Emily is originally from Guatemala and her experience as an English Language Learner inspired her to become an ESL teacher. This affords her a deep understanding of the challenges her students must overcome to succeed. Emily earned a BA in Spanish and a MAT in ESL from UNC-Charlotte. She serves as a professional development facilitator, motivational and keynote speaker. Emily is part of UNC-Charlotte College of Education's Advisory Board. Emily served as teacher liaison the Cabarrus County Board of Education as a district Teacher of the Year in 2016.
Emily is the author of (in English and Spanish): If You Only Knew: Letters from an Immigrant Teacher. As a leader, Emily's focus is to inspire students to dream more, learn more, do more, and become
more.

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

First book review is here!! Thank you, Katie for making time for Milly’s Journey — Book 1 🙏🏽♥️ Katie shared fantastic feedback that helped me make this book even better for all readers. ᴍɪʟʟʏ’s ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ Series coming soon 🔥📚

MILLY'S JOURNEY
Where the Dreams Take Root
EL TRAYECTO DE MILLY
DONDE LOS SUEÑOS
ECHAN RAÍCES
"Loving Milly's story!"
"I absolutely love Milly as a main character and how the author tenderly illustrates her hopes and dreams.
Emily Francis creates a world that, while it will be unfamiliar to some readers, is authentic and vivid. I felt emotional while reading it!! I can't wait to hear more about what Emily has in mind for future books in the series!
BOOK REVIEW BY KATIE MCCLUNG CROOK
EL TRAYECTO

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Capped teacher workday 🍎📦🗂️📝💻 It’s a “get it all done” kinda day 😅 ELD teacher end-of-year checklist: 🔘 Update @ellevationed.bsky.social 🔘 Print & file cumulative reports 🔘 Clean out bookshelves & room 🔘 Complete school’s end-of-year checklist 🔘 Attend mandatory meeting

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Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Through this ‬family outreach approach, T @emilyfrancis.bsky.social lets her Ss' adults know – they're part of her community before, during and after the year ends! #EduSky

Easel paper titled "How can we collaborate with families/caregivers ... " includes suggestions for before ("Send out a video with teacher intro 'facebook live'"), during ("Phone calls with positive feedback") and after ("Either invite for projects or record & share")

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

4 EXAM days ✅ Great job, friends!!! What a fantastic school year. Now, let’s enjoy graduation!! 🎓

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🔥📚COVER REVEAL 📚🔥 Picture book series (2025) Milly’s Journey— (4 BILINGUAL book series) ⤵️ Where the Dreams Take Root El Trayecto de Milly: Donde los Sueños Echan Raíces The Letters in my Backpack El Trayecto de Milly: Las Cartas en mi Mochila www.instagram.com/p/DJufsGSRi3...

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This. Is. It!!! 😀 Today we had our LAST full day of instruction and learning for this school year — tomorrow, Thursday, May 15th, we’re starting our half days — 4 days of testing and we’re DONE ✅ Hang in there, friends!!! You got this! #LetsDoThis

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day, mom 🌺 As I work on this picture book about our little family, I cannot help but admire you more! Kudos to all immigrant mama’s who left EVERYTHING behind and made a path for their children—WE WILL CARRY THE BANNER — for YOU! We are your legacy!

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I introduce to you a straight A doctoral student 🙌🏽🔥🤓 That’s me 🙋🏽‍♀️— I just received my final grades for my first doctoral program coursework It’s not about the grade…is about… ✔️ strong academic foundation ✔️ effective study habits ✔️ motivation & drive #DoctorateLife

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Julio went home & told his mom about this project. Mom spilled coffee on a paper to give it a rusty color THEN burned the edges to give this natural & authentic “wanted -reward” look Julio was more proud of his mamá’s collaboration than his own research assignment! ♥️😭

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#SiTanSoloSupieras 📖 Ms. Hanson’s class in TX received copies of my book #SiTanSoloSupieras I cannot wait to hear their takeaways. Perfect group of students to read our AUTHENTIC immigrant stories, journeys, and experiences. #StoriesMatter

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My picture book illustrator is at work with my story 🙌🏽🖼️📖 I cannot wait to see the finished AUTHENTIC work — oh, did I mention that my picture book illustrator is my ML student and she’s Latinx?!? Yep! Representation matters #StoriesMatter #AuthenticLit #DignidadLiteraria

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My daughter’s #DualLanguage teachers are amazing!! Hannah is having a fabulous 5th grade year—as she wraps up this chapter in life, I appreciate these beautiful educators who support students with all their heart! ♥️ @participatelearning.com

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

PICTURE BOOK draft is done 🙌🏽 MILLY (an Immigrant Teacher’s Story)📖 My students’ words of encouragement pushed me out of my comfort zone. #IamWriting #Picturebook #AuthenticLit #DignidadLiteraria

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Exchanging our immigrant journeys 🌎 I LOVE these special moments where my students feel comfortable enough to exchange their immigrant experiences & journey. This is how we heal! This is how we connect! This is how we find belonging! This is where affirmation happens! This is a SAFE space.

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#mondaymotivation 🫶🏽 “Para su colección!” ~ Dennis 🇲🇽 Loved starting my day with this beautiful detail from my student ♥️#recuerditos #mexicansuvenirs #ClassDecor

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

What a fun day 🫶🏽📚 #mplitfest Thank you, Friends of the Mt. Pleasant Public Library for hosting me today & for the opportunity to share my story and all about my book. Grateful beyond words for friends & a student (with his family) who showed up today for support. My heart is full!

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Collaborating with caregivers & families is front and center 🫶🏽 Sarah Whitfield & I completed a book study on Nourishing Caregiver Collaboration by @nqcliteracy.bsky.social & we’re practicing our learning Love how our Summer Enrichment for Newcomers is built on acknowledging families’ strengths!

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Congrats to Carolina, MS ESL teacher in Pennsylvania, winner of a classroom set & a personalized author’s copy of my book #SiTanSoloSupieras 🙌🏽🎊 Cannot wait to see this class reading & reflecting on our stories! #StoriesMatter #AuthenticLit #DignidadLiteraria #LibrosEnEspañol

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The CHS Latino Student Union club enjoyed a snack & egg hunt 🍭🍫🍬 #BuildingCommunity #LatinxClub

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

#1 New Release 🙌🏽😭🔥 I got an orange banner!!! #SiTanSoloSupieras

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Emily Francis @emilyfrancis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

¡Se acabó la espera! 🙌🏽📚 — Mi libro ya está disponible en ESPAÑOL sɪ ᴛᴀɴ sᴏʟᴏ sᴜᴘɪᴇʀᴀs: ᴄᴀʀᴛᴀs ᴅᴇ ᴜɴᴀ ᴘʀᴏғᴇsᴏʀᴀ ɪɴᴍɪɢʀᴀɴᴛᴇ 🔗 Amazon— a.co/d/5eqXI2R Or My website: www.inspiringells.com/store/c2/libro

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