Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional @nashb.bsky.social @torikflint.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social @teachkht.bsky.social @languageartist.bsky.social @lmv.bsky.social

Jane has always been an inspiration to me—unwavering in her scholarly discernment, relational ethics, and advocacy. May she rest in peace. 💗

Our libraries and library professionals are keystones of our communities fostering minds and offering services to individuals regardless of background. We must lift them up, especially this National Library Week, and demand that Trump and DOGE do not gut support for these vital institutions.

Without a strong Department of Education, kids from working class families will be left behind, unable to access the education they need to succeed. We stand with our affiliated unions as they fight this illegal order.

I’ve completed a million billion article reviews in the last few weeks. because: #reciprocal #peerreview juju. 🗣️ If you *want* reviews, *be* a reviewer.

Check out our latest Inquiring Minds Podcast Episode! It’s all about poetry and literacies, and we’ve got some amazing guests joining us. Drs. Stephanie Abrahams, Sarah Donovan, Victoria Gill, and Darius Phelps are all there to share their expertise ✨.

Join us for our upcoming March #literacies chat with Dr. @ankhithakurta.bsky.social!

"Controlled silence, dismissal of culturally responsive lesson planning, & behavioral contingencies for teaching & learning are not written into policy; however, the social powers they convey are disseminated through materiality & relationality every day." journals.sfu.ca/iccps/index....

Hey hey #literacies we’re trending again!

A2: slowness (!!), mediated activity, posthumanism (neohumanism, Braidotti), discursive materiality, (trans)languaging, play, early #literacies, and the relationships among & between. What knowledges are produc(ing).

A1: to me, #literacies (broadly) are relational, material constellations. Being/doings that include tools, bodies, structures, signs… moving with and alongside others.

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Is Literacy Everything Now? If so, Then What Is Literacy?

✨Reading teachers! ✨The UMD Reading Specialist program aligns with Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) certification and is approved by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation. Earn yourMaster of Education (M.Ed.) degree. ❤️🐢🖤 #EduSky #literacy #reading

@ncte.org will have a special issue volume coming out very soon (in typesetting now!) with an excellent piece by Ricki Ginsburg and colleagues on teachers navigating soft censorship.

✨Reading teachers! ✨The UMD Reading Specialist program aligns with Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) certification and is approved by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation. Earn yourMaster of Education (M.Ed.) degree. ❤️🐢🖤 #EduSky #literacy #reading

Okay I don't like or trust politicians, but I am grateful for the people of Maryland who have been contacting their elected officials inc. Raskin & Van Hollen* and asking them to show some spine. MD represent *and Alsosucks lol ugh

#watercolor morning

We're so excited for our upcoming January #literacies chat with Dr. @draliceylee.bsky.social on Honoring Black Language in the Classroom.

Waking up to new moon, fresh sunshine, wide-open writing possibilities. Not bad #Monday.

On writing & research: "At such a time more conceptual creativity is necessary, & more theoretical courage is needed in order to bring about the leap across inertia, nostalgia, aporia & the other forms of critical stasis induced by our historical condition." -Braidotti, Writing as a Nomadic Subject

filling your Zotero with friends and colleagues 😎

Check out @alexcorbitt.bsky.social and Mariana Becker’s piece about Roblox! They look carefully at issues of play and paywalls!! This paper is 🔥 🔥 🔥

Learning to write is an invitation to play with language. However, who is *allowed to play* with language (and with whose languaging) is not inclusive.

Everyone belongs. “There are unhoused people, mentally ill people, library kids, library teens, grandparents, autistic people, neurodivergent people who all use a library, and it belongs to all of them.” - Mychal Threets #ReasonstoLoveLibraries #SLJSummit bit.ly/3RGM52r

Bye #LRA2024; bye Atlanta. The conversation and tea were tops. Stay warm.

Resharing! @anna-phd.bsky.social This #literacies group is 😎👌 go.bsky.app/HZLhPr

So. Only three of us. lol #EduSky #LRA2024 ✍️🧡✨🐢✌️

Who's planning on going to #LRA2024 this year? #literacy #literacies #LRA #LiteracyResearch

I went to two today 👌

Sharing to save and read!

Sharing to save and read! ✨🧡✨

For all the literacy leaders and administrators out there, we at the Conference on English Leadership hope you’ll consider submitting a proposal for #CEL25: Abundance! Find the full Call at the top of the page linked below! #NCTE24 #CEL24 #NCTE25 bit.ly/CELConference

Thankful.

Also, apply to our UMD doctoral program! Pick #Literacy! Pick #Reading and #LanguageArts education.umd.edu/academics/de...

Literacy Research @lrtmp.bsky.social volume 73! Perfect for holiday reading 🤓 🦃 journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx?fbc...

Telling me your shiny, new, expensive tool is teacher-proof is the only red flag I need to end a conversation immediately. It's an insult. Tools are nothing without teachers who can facilitate thoughtful use that pushes kids to think critically, ask questions & solve big problems. #EduSky

I’m in-between projects, on the precipice of thanksgiving break, and my brain is skippy. how to address this “have i done enough” nervous system? #AcademicSky #FirstYearTenureTrack #writing #research #EduSky

Tomorrow’s #literacies chat with @nicole-mirra.bsky.social on “The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season” will take place at 5pm/8pm. Join us!

25% of kids in the US are Latinx, so here’s your Latinx KidLit starter pack and make sure to read, boost, and support Latinx stories all year long! go.bsky.app/CGXLiaz

Today #NCTE24 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM EST Standing for—Indeed, Fighting for—Teacher Professionalism and the Right to Teach Responsively Room 205 A radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/15/2...

Oh, what’s that? You want a session where you can see cutting edge #literacies scholarship, learn powerful classroom practices, AND play musical chairs while wearing giant literary theory sunglasses??? Well then, come on through! #NCTE24

Call for Papers: Issue #55: Beyond the ‘Crisis:’ Challenging the Politics and Practices of the Science of Reading radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/19/c...

Resharing! @anna-phd.bsky.social This #literacies group is 😎👌 go.bsky.app/HZLhPr

The coffee warmer. I had no idea. #writing

I love delving into random elements of English in my editing work. Today, I've been pondering "ablaut reduplication", a rule that governs the order of vowels in phrases like "sing song", "dilly dally" and "bish bash bosh" - it's always "i", "a", "o"... #WritingCraft

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

Or, as Mary says: “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work” ✍️ #AlwaysWriting #WriterQuotes #TeachingWriters #EduSky

Things we love 🧡: literacies, multimodality, new materialism, community, teachers, equity, writing, languaging, families, play, critical pedagogies… #EduSky #AcademicSky #literacies #teachers #TeacherEd #EdTerps