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Emily Francis
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ELD teacher in NC🕷| Author of #IfUonlyKnewBook | Speaker | '16 CabCoSchools Teacher of the Year | Doctorate Student
www.InspiringELLs.com
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#MillysJourneyBooks are out in the world taking space and bringing smiles to children—this makes my heart so happy ♥️📚🔥
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July 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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 🔥📚
July 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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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 🛒
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July 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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When your friends buy your books the minute is available 🙌🏽😭 #Grateful #MillysJourneyBooks
July 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Paper copy available mañana 🤗 #MillysJourneyBooks #Kidlit #BookSky #EduSky
June 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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#MillysJourneyBooks
June 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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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
June 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Mark your calendar!
#MillysJourneyBooks’ birthday is Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 🎉🗓️
June 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#MillysJourneyBooks 🔥📚 — Book 1️⃣ available 7/1/25
June 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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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
June 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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 📚🔥
June 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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 📚
June 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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One of my first Beta readers—Wilson, a kindergartener in the #DualLanguage program ♥️👏🏽🌎

Milly’s Journey series coming July 1st #MillysJourneyBooks
June 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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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! 👏🏽
June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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!!
4 + 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
June 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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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!"
May 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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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
May 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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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.
May 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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
May 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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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
May 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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4 EXAM days ✅

Great job, friends!!! What a fantastic school year.

Now, let’s enjoy graduation!! 🎓
May 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🔥📚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
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May 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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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
May 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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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!
May 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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
May 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM