This coming Thursday, we’ll host our next #literacies chat, titled “Censorship and #Literacies” We hope to see you there!

Congratulations Sharlyn! It was a pleasure to see this piece develop and now featured on @growbeyondgrades.org. Bookmark this insightful essay for high schoolers struggling with how they measure up on externally determined scales.

I want my learning to be measured by how much I’ve grown, how deeply I’ve understood, and how boldly I’ve tried, not just by the shape of the letter at the top of the page. @GBGEdu @growbeyondgrades.org growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...

Hey fellow disabled scholars! The ISLS accommodations process is SUPER EASY. As someone who was BEEN THROUGH IT with invasive processes, this is not that. If you have concerns, please reach out!! ISLS is making sure that remote presenters are deeply integrated in conference activity! Don't miss out!

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"[N]o matter what we will continue to fight for space for students to hone their skills — think, write, program, research — unimpeded and independently," write @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and @marentierra.bsky.social.

Let me know if anyone wants to play with me and @scottstorm.bsky.social at NCTE or LRA 😘

“Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫 High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest. growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...

Want to learn more about interdisciplinary #literacies? Here are some resources from Dr. Deroo!

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Announcing Information and Learning Sciences Special Issue: Co-Design as Method and Object of Study – Current Trends and Future Directions Focus is educational co-design. See link below for more info Please share freely. #learningsciences www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

Excited to be returning in person to the Punk Scholars Network conference this December after missing a year. Will also be the first step in a (hopefully!) longer line of research into/about/with @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social about public pedagogy and literacy development within DIY/punk spaces!

A6 Allies are willing to remind us to rest. It is a synergy where your willingness to engage requires their love and care, too. Allies will remind you to "sit this one out." The current movement for Black people to rest while our allies take up these current moments is love. #literacies

Here are more resources from our host, Dr. Ayanna F. Brown! #literacies

“Building Civic Futures: Vol 2” just arrived! For my #fandom or #literacies folx on here, we share ways to support speculative practices before, during, and after conventions in this chapter “Enacting Speculative Futures with Youth at Fan Conventions” 💯 🥳

New faculty photos taken in my office, had to update my profile picture with all my books and comics behind me 😍 (if you can believe it, I've already met with more students in my new office in two months than in the last *three years* at my prior institution)

Deadline extension! Proposals for AERA 2026 now due 8/1/25. Consider how your research furthers this prompt: "What does it mean to unforget histories and imagine new visions for education through writing & #literacies research"?

Join us Tuesday, July 29th for our next #literacies chat with Dr. Ayanna F. Brown (@thoughtspectrumafb.bsky.social), titled "Engaging Race Analytics #Literacies: Pathways for Interdisciplinary Conversations." We hope to see you there!

Secret identity reveals 😘 🦸‍♀️ could read one hundred AUs of different identity reveals haha!

I am so excited to join the Executive Committee as the new Secretary of @islsnews.bsky.social! The learning sciences has always been an intellectual home for me, and I'm so happy I get to serve the Society in this role! education.wisc.edu/news/uw-madi...

I’ve seen this before and I share it every time. It’s an accurate summary of what I do even if I struggle to explain it most of the time lol

Today is so heavy. So I’m taking s as minute with #knitting, watching the pontoons, and enjoying the breeze. You can donate to the Texas Hill Country Community Foundation here. cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Many thanks to CHOICE Magazine and A.L. Hsu for this review of our book in their July 2025 issue! We hope this is a compelling summer read for educators looking to disrupt their classrooms this fall 🔥 💻 💭 #literacies @scottstorm.bsky.social

If you're an educator in search of an antidote to AI hype and technosolutionism writ large, may I suggest @civicsoftech.bsky.social? Here's more about our community and our work. 🧵 #EduSky

Happy Pride from Cast of Many Things! We were happy to showcase our friends at @deckofmanyaces.bsky.social for this playtest! 🖤🤍💜

Reading/writing for discomfort, for disruption becomes a way to rupture taken-for-granted norms in generative and empowering ways. We learn to do #literacies differently, in a landscape that imagines that it's eliminated this necessary & lifesaving work. #queer #trans #LGBTQ+

There’s a great piece in this collection about quiet censorship, and how widespread it is. Not just ‘red’ states. #literacies

📚 Check out another new pub from our special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: “Teachers’ Orientations Toward Texts and Tools: Critical (Re)Consideration of a Remix and Restory Assignment as a Teacher Educator."

Speaking of the intersection of civics and gaming…!

‘I became a teacher so I can read scripted lessons written by folks who haven’t taught in a decade in order to prepare students to take a standardized test written above their grade level!’ Said no teacher ever

AERA—in partnership with these organizations—has filed a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s unlawful mass terminations of grants at the National Science Foundation, and the consequent harms to AERA, many of our members, and America’s scientific research enterprise. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…

Teaching literary theory has been the most influential approach I’ve used to improve HS students’ interpretive ability. Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings. #literacies #iteachenglish #edusky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

Congratulations to Rhode Island who just passed a Freedom to Read bill! Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen! R.I. House passes anti-censorship bill ‘Freedom to Read Act’ share.google/dyS9S8nlF1gx...

As someone who rants about how our current system squeezes the life out of the discipline for educators, I'm enjoying teaching an English methods class. Just had a participant share that her midpoint course epiphany was "English is about interpretation, not answers" & I want to put it on a t-shirt.

Looking to hear from emerging scholars & people who couldn't travel to Helsinki? Come to the virtual poster session on Th, June 12 4:30pm Helsinki time (9:30am ET, 10:30pm Tokyo). There's even a room in person (with the session chair there) and you can attend online! #isls2025 #hybridconference

The energy is great today for the #ISLS2025 inaugural hybrid poster session! @celsmooth.bsky.social is repping us in person and I’m here online with Robin Lange-Fazio our teacher co-designer 🎲 Many thanks to the Hybrid committee for making this inclusive design possible @islsnews.bsky.social

For your #ISLS25 scheduling consideration: Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4:30 PM Helsinki time, I’ll be presenting this paper that Molly Shea and I wrote. Find it in a session called “Compassion and Empowerment in Education”

Hey learning scientists! If you’re seeing this because of the hashtags, fyi, the learning sciences feed is catching everything tagged with #isls25 (and #isls2025 if you prefer to specify the century) so feel free to follow along there next week. bsky.app/profile/did:...

My awesome husband @scottstorm.bsky.social has lots of great stuff to say in this @edutopia.org piece on tapping into students' deep wells of fandom knowledge for literacy and learning!

It was so fun to report on teachers being wildly creative in eliciting student genre passions to allow for engagement and deep analysis. Thanks @scottstorm.bsky.social for sharing your insights and reposting!

Agreed, great examples of fandoms in the classroom! Thanks @cberwick.bsky.social for this great synthesis!

This whole series about NSF grant cancellations hits hard: www.advancejournal.org/post/3135-co...

More than half of the National Science Foundation grants terminated since April fund programs that would help students train in science, engineering and math. Story by @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/3Shu4rt

Good morning, y'all! I am thrilled to share the 4th @civicsoftech.bsky.social online conference and our keynote speakers @audreywatters.bsky.social and @hypervisible.bsky.social. This year's theme is especially urgent: communal resistance to artificial systems. Read more about the free event at:

At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆 Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW. Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.

Publication alert: “Rime of the Emergent Teachers: Supporting Collaborative Literacy Learning Through Roleplaying Games”! The seed of this piece started when one of the coauthors asked in 2019 when our ELA methods course was going to feature D&D (haha!). publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

applying for jobs again