“Love Them First” is a documentary following a Minneapolis principal fighting to get her failing school off “the list.” NOW STREAMING: @PrimeVideo
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One week out!
A great upcoming opportunity to see our @LoveThemFirst documentary on 9/28 at @popchurch. Please join us, w/principals @friestleben and @LisaPawelak in attendance! Spread the word. ❤️
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When Education becomes your agent of Liberation the Movement takes wings. Go LANEY! kstp.com/news/minneapolis-st…
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The North High Student Council needs your help. Please Share! They've been asking for a couple weeks now & haven't gotten much of anything. 😞 Let's surprise them with tons of submissions! Any & ALL welcome! 😉
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Our kids are watching. Talk to them. Let them know you hear them, even if you don’t have the answers.
@friestleben @SouthHighMpls @HeidiWigdahl @kare11
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Educators: this is our moment.
We’re going to make sure that every child, every school, and every educator has what they need to thrive regardless of where they live or where they come from.
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We are thrilled to announce that former @MPS_LucyLaney and current @MplsNorth Principal Mauri Melander Friestleben who is featured in the documentary @LoveThemFirst will be one of our keynote speakers!! Don’t forget to register!
#LoveThemFirst #HopeDealer
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Mauri Friestleben (formerly of Lucy Laney, now at North High) spearheaded a powerful new alliance of more than 150 principals across MN committing themselves to "Good Trouble”—righting wrongs of generational educational injustice for children of color."
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“The duPonts really ground us in that boots on the ground journalism.” - 2020 winner @lindseyseavert. Along with @bengarvin, she won a duPont for @LoveThemFirst, a doc about a struggling elementary school in Minneapolis and its exceptional principal.
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This was such a moment. So proud of everyone that worked on the film and honored to help raise Mauri Friestleben’s important voice. She was the only speaker that night to receive a standing ovation from a room full of skeptical, award-winning journalists. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 – at Minneapolis, MN
“The duPonts really ground us in that boots on the ground journalism.” - 2020 winner @lindseyseavert. Along with @bengarvin, she won a duPont for @LoveThemFirst, a doc about a struggling elementary school in Minneapolis and its exceptional principal.
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I’ll never forget the Principal in @LoveThemFirst telling a kid, “I know you’re angry. You have a right to be angry. But we’ve got to find you better outlets for your anger.”
I want to hug every single rioter. Where others see flames, I see grief, trauma, & tremendous pain.
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Minneapolis North High School principal Mauri Friestleben prays at the spot where last night a man who pleaded 'Please, I can't breathe' died in police custody.
for more on the incedent: kare11.com/article/news/crim…
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Multiple visitors at our final staff meeting today! Thank you, @BBssoto1 @rrisdamber and @clockamy956 for leading our great @BluebonnetRRISD family! @tlrieger @LoveThemFirst #BulldogStrong – at Austin, TX
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Today staff from Kankakee School District 111 Preschool program spent the afternoon "together" watching @LoveThemFirst via zoom. After the viewing, everyone shared ideas on ways to Love Them First in their classrooms and the program. Everyone gave the movie two thumbs up.
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"To listen to the news, especially if you're a child, has to be incredibly confusing. So for me, I've let go of the academic piece and I'm in the survival piece and the social emotional piece and the knowing you're OK piece."
Lucy Laney teachers, VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=GhPoQ-7W…
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@LoveThemFirst If you’re looking for some inspiration and a reminder of the importance of relationships first, check this out!! today.com/video/this-school-…
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This is cool. The @mspfilmsociety, in partnership w/ mpls
@MayorFrey & @kare11, is hosting online screening event starting THIS Friday at 7pm thru Sunday midnight for
@LoveThemFirst. Feel some togetherness, celebrate extraordinary teachers/students and cry happy tears together.
