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Gloria Pipkin
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- First Name:
- Gloria
- Last Name:
- Pipkin
- Job Title:
- editor
- City:
- Lynn Haven
- State:
- FL
- My Story:
- Longtime former teacher in Florida public schools with a passionate commitment to preserving First Amendment freedoms for teachers, students, and citizens in general
- My Ideal School is a Place Where:
- civic courage, critical literacy, and social imagination are nurtured and rewarded
- My Political Views:
- progressive
- My Favorite Freedom:
- speech
- My Personal Heroes:
- Mary Beth Tinker, MLK, Toni Morrison
- Recommended Reading:
- At the Schoolhouse Gate: Lessons in Intellectual Freedom
- Quotable:
- Be it grand or slender, burrowing, blasting, or refusing to sanctify, whether it laughs out loud or is a cry without an alphabet, the choice word or the chosen silence, unmolested language surges toward knowledge, not its destruction. But who does not know of literature that is banned because it is interrogative; discredited because it is critical; erased because alternative? And how many are outraged by the thought of a self-ravaged tongue?
. . . We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
~Toni Morrison, Nobel lecture
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I refuse to give another skittle to a child for memorizing yet another science fact from a textbook. My children are "skittled out." They want hands-on and to be trusted to get out of their desks.
Started by Cindy Robinson in Educational Practices May 26. 0 Replies 0 Likes
I balance the price of me being a veteran teacher by volunteering in after-school programs and building and maintaining ponds, cash crops, aquariums, animal habitats, gardens, and orchards. If I work…Continue
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You can read an account of the case at the web site of the Student Press Law Center: http://tinyurl.com/6j7g2w
Heather was nominated for the IF award by the Commission on Intellectual Freedom of the Florida Council of Teachers of English, which I co-chair.
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