🔔Our open letter to academic leaders in TX: “As pressures mount on TX public institutions of higher education, we write on behalf of faculty across the state to remind you of your obligations to protect academic freedom and due process.” 1/3

Our team met this morning to discuss and plan ways we can move forward the ideas from the #Literacies homecoming chat. We've got some exciting things in the works! @clarabbott.bsky.social @lexikwoodward.bsky.social @nicolermisra.bsky.social @carolinebr.bsky.social @kpsinedu.bsky.social

Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

Super happy to see the @lrtmp.bsky.social Volume 74 go live online right now. Let's go! Check out the editors' volume introduction below and share today! #literacies

Join us in just TWO WEEKS for the November #literacies chat with @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social

Job Posting! Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence is hiring an early-career Faculty/Ed Developer. bit.ly/PSUEdDev This is a *faculty* position, working with splendid colleagues, including my wife, Mary Ann! Thanks for applying or for sharing this posting to your networks.

Please plan your stay at ISLS 2026 early! With FIFA 2026 and other large-scale events taking place across Southern California, hotel space will be in high demand (Note: short-term rentals such as Airbnb are NOT permitted within the City of Irvine.)

Myers Education Press authors of "Fandoms in the Classroom" Karis Jones and Scott Storm are doing a #literacies chat in November. Visit www.aera.net/SIG137/Writi... for more info. #curriculum #teaching #learning #teachereducation

I think this is a sentiment shared by many! So much so that @carolinebr.bsky.social invited @deewellington1.bsky.social and I to write a whole paper about all the connections and opportunities hosting #literacies chats provided for us. eric.ed.gov?id=EJ1448943

Good distillation of what I argue in Building the Innovation School—the imperative to "innovate" in K-12 education is a mechanism to recurrently launder austerity and/or public resource capture as common-sense, even equitable, reform. bookshop.org/p/books/buil...

A6: As an arts-based researcher interested in digital #literacies, I am super interested in a #literacies future that uses art as a way to critique and imagine the relationships we have with tech. As an extension, curious about how making/sharing artwork could make its way into #literacies chats!

I would love for us to do something - act in the world. I saw, for instance, someone crowdsourcing legit aid organizations in Jamaica today. Simple, but can be impactful. #Literacies chat could be a great source to do rapid response crowdsourcing of resources, ideas, support, etc.

A3: I always appreciate the opportunity to connect with the younger generation of emerging #literacies scholars —-and I also think these chats make connecting with more senior scholars accessible too

Q3: As someone whose doctorate began at the dawn of the pandemic, I don’t know where I’d be (from a scholarly/professional POV) without the #literacies crew I met online. Truly a space where lasting collaborations, and friendships(!) are built and sustained. Glad I get a lovely monthly reminder!

A6: a future that continues to embrace the role of #literacies in bringing hope and connection—-to thwart the powers that be which seek fear and isolation and apathy

Oh, I SO needed this moment! Cup is full and I'm so glad I reconnected with the #literacies community across the time zones! Totally worth staying up till 2:00 am! Thank you all for the life boost that this chat became!

If we know anything, we know how to have a good time at a #literacies chat 🥳 @scottstorm.bsky.social !! Mark your calendars

THAT’S right!! @rabani.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social and I are pumped our special issue will be coming out @cite-ela.bsky.social very soon!! #literacies

A6: Looking toward futures that (continue to) disrupt traditional singular ways of thinking about “literacy” in classrooms, paving the way for the multitude of more equitable #literacies learning designs we might have instead

A6. Subversive, transgressive, fugitive, and joyful world-building #literacies

A6: For this question, I return to the Bell quote that @anna-phd.bsky.social and @esp-phd.bsky.social evoked to start the chat: "We exist only in relation." In this moment, those relations are vital to our survival. I look forward to a continued #literacies community that exists far into the future.

AHAHA! And now we have a special issue on the way! 💯 keep an eye out #literacies

Karen! I just shared the #playrevolution special issue with the shout-out to #literacies that came from you and your collaborators ❤️❤️❤️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

THIS! During @drannd.bsky.social 's #literacies chat last month, @profconnors.bsky.social asked about the lack of student voice (broadly) in a lot of censorship conversations, and now I see it EVERYWHERE. Really excited for the upcoming work Dr. David teased on this!

A3: I have loved learning from @anna-phd.bsky.social about the first #literacies chats, and the seminal papers and ideas that have come out of this space. Here's to many more to come!

Q3: The #literacies chat began in 2012 with a Derrick Bell quote, "However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation..." What connections have you made with others through the chat?

Our first #literacies chat in 2012 was inspired by renowned critical race scholar Derrick Bell, and tonight's #Literacies Chat Homecoming is an opportunity to celebrate & deepen relationships that sustain us & make us who we are as a community of scholars striving toward more just education futures.

Hi #literacies! Karis here, assist prof at Baylor, former W&L GSB member and current exec committee chair 😘 ❤️

Thanks to this great team for organizing #literacies Homecoming!!

**In 2 short hours!** - Join #literacies at 5pm PST/8pm EST tonight for #Literacies Homecoming with Drs. Anna Smith and Emily Pendergrass!

We are pleased to announce the #literacies 2025-2026 co-historian team! This team will lead efforts to capture the history and current workings of our SIG as well as special projects they may take on. Thank you for your service!

We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!

Ciattarelli is pro vouchers and “parents rights”; Sherrill is pro high impact tutoring, trusting teachers to implement curriculum, and redoing funding formula to help underfunded districts. Choose wisely NJ. www.chalkbeat.org/newark/2025/...

We're trying something new at #ISLS2026- Erica and I are organizing an arts-based track for submissions! We would love to see and showcase your work alongside more traditional conference submissions. And since I'm in charge, I'm going to try to get weird with it. 2026.isls.org/arts-gallery...

New in The Fulcrum! In the article, I consider banned books week’s theme (censorship is so 1984) and how it’s important for us to remember that “Fascism doesn’t maintain itself. People maintain it.” thefulcrum.us/governance-l...

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

SO MANY FREE COMICS Y'ALL! Your heads will explode, in a good way! Get over there and get some!

Second and final deadline ISLS2026 extension announcement!! ISLS2026 submissions (all ICLS & CSCL formats) now due October 20, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE, in recognition of ongoing academic and personal challenges. See call for proposals for each format at 2026.isls.org

Thank you committee, and put these awards on your radar for this year #literacies

"Unsilencing Gratia is a TTRPG book designed to be an easy introduction to collaborative storytelling, usable in a classroom setting." digthisbird.itch.io/unsilencing-...

2 resources we talked about: We Know Something You Don't Know - "We designed our game to foster critical conversations about the structures of schools and the people who navigate them. Our game includes reflection questions to support those conversations." virginialund.itch.io/we-know-some...

Such a pleasure! Can’t wait until the episode comes out ☺️

What will future conferencing look like? Find out by submitting to #ISLS26! ISLS Annual Meetings feature cutting edge in-person and virtual (accommodation) designs. Our hybrid designs are facilitated to ensure smooth interaction across modalities. Check us out! 2026.isls.org

A4 3/4: It also, in my opinion, makes children’s worlds very small if they cannot read about people different from them in many ways. #literacies #censorship

A3: A3: The American Library Association (www.ala.org) and Unite Against Book Bans (uniteagainstbookbans.org) do amazing work informing their readers/subscribers about censorship! Also, the participants in my diss (all ELA teachers) have helped shap my understanding in our current climate.

A6: I actually talk to my students a lot about censorship. This current unit, we're reading Fahrenheit 451, and we're talking all about restrictions to literacy historically and currently. #literacies I also have written specifically about book bans: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Totally fair! It is so real. And not at all stepping on toes. Hopefully you have allies in your department and community who have your back. Parents who will speak at the school board before there's an issue. Maybe you can quietly share this toolkit with them. #literacies

Be sure to check out our latest Inquiring Minds podcast: Multimodal Authoring! tinyurl.com/Multimod... #Literacies

New @nepc.bsky.social policy brief with Faith Boninger: how commercial edtech undercuts key goals of public education—and what we can do about it. We look at transparency, governance, and privacy issues and offer recommendations for educators and policymakers. nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

Thanks to those who joined! I'll be working through my replies and mentions over the next few days to continue the conversation. I'll plug an amazing volume of research on censorship that you can get now, and vol 2 focuses on teacher voices and is coming out in November (before NCTE). #literacies