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Dr. Theresa Chapple

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7 Feb

@MichelleObama

#BlackHistoryMonth Yesterday's letter was E for excellence.
I was tired last night & just wanted the children to go to sleep, but they came to me asking, "who's our example of Black Excellence mom?"
So, I mustered all the energy I could to enthusiasticly discuss @MichelleObama

Mrs. Obama, are 44th First Lady is the epitome of Black Excellence, and became this was as a result of hard work, parents love, community support, quest for knowledge.

My children were impressed to learn that her mother, Mrs. Robinson stayed home with the children and taught

them so much during their early years, that both Mrs. Obama and her brother skipped 2nd grade. We talked about Mrs. O early academic achievements that led her to one of the top high schools in Chicago. How she traveled by bus 1 hour each way to obtain a good education.

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Dr. Theresa Chapple

@Theresa_Chapple

6 Feb

#BlackHistoryMonth Today's letter is D- for drive.
I had an entire plan, but my children wanted to learn about Ruby Bridges.
They said that someone had to DRIVE her to school😆, so, I went with their selection.

Ruby Bridges, born in 1954, the same year as my mother. My children were shocked to hear that when their gma was a child, integrated schools were resisted.

My children learned about how even with laws in place, people made up creative ways to ensure segregated schools.

In New Orleans, Black children had to take an extremely hard placement test in order to get into the White school. 6 kids passed the test at Ruby's school, 2 of the children remained at the Black school, 3 Black girls went to McDonogh school and Ruby went to Frantz on her own.

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Dr. Theresa Chapple

@Theresa_Chapple

5 Feb

@SavageTenorJI

#BlackHistoryMonth Today's value- "C" is for creative. This was hard to narrow down, so I selected two people to discuss with my family.
1- Issachah James Savage @SavageTenorJI. I read a quote about him once that said "His name is Savage. His sound is sophisticated."

Philly born opera singer, Issachah possesses an expansive, take-notice tenor that has propelled him to the front of orchestras such the Los Angeles Philharmonic and on stages such as Houston Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

It's a voice both refined and deep in its range, in that rare category known as a heldentenor, and he is using it to crush Verdi and Wagner roles here and abroad.

He's won: The Seattle International Wagner Competition in 2014
The 2012 Marcello Giordani International Competition

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Dr. Theresa Chapple

@Theresa_Chapple

4 Feb

#BlackHistoryMonth - today's value is bold.
I talked with my girls about the boldness necessary to be "Unbought and Unbossed", Shirley Chisholm's slogan when she became the first woman and first Black woman to run for nomination of a major party as its candidate for President.

Shirley Chisholm was born in 1924 and died in 2005. She was relentless in breaking political barriers with respect to both race and gender. In 1968, Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, representing New York’s 12th for 7 terms from 1969 to 1983.

As both a New York state legislator and a congresswoman, Chisholm championed the rights of the least of us, fighting for improved education; health and social services, including unemployment benefits for domestic workers;

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Dr. Theresa Chapple

@Theresa_Chapple

3 Feb

I often talk about what I learned by asking a group of Black parents what they like about #virtualSchool. 1 thing parents said was that they get a first hand seat to what their children learn and hear. Therefore, if microagressions occur, they can address immediately.
New 🧵

One thing Black folks know about #BlackHistoryMonth is that some schools somewhere are going to get it wrong, really wrong. And often we don't know if it's our kid's school until they come home and tell us about the cruelty that endured at school.

Well thanks to virtual learning, parents in one 5th grade class got to experience it alongside their child.
Here's the lesson from curriculum.
Looks harmless enough. But now, let's add a little microagressions to it.

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Dr. Theresa Chapple

@Theresa_Chapple

3 Feb

https://twitter.com/jfeldman_epi/status/1351549046754848771

"In the United States, most coronavirus infections are never confirmed by testing, and most positive tests are never traced to a probable source."

https://twitter.com/jfeldman_epi/status/1351549046754848771

@jfeldman_epi

I've led CT efforts for years. What's different this time is as @jfeldman_epi
says, often times potential sources of infection are just too many to come to a conclusion.
"..countries that have invested more resources into disease surveillance cannot keep up when infection...

is widespread, as there are too many potential sources of infection."
But do we really want to know where disease spreads?

"Perhaps most importantly, properly investigating the question of where the coronavirus spreads also requires those in power to want to know the answer."

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