🚨New Publication Alert! 🚨 Excavation, Emotionality, and Evasion: Examining Racial Literacy Development in Elementary Teacher Education in the Journal of Equity and Social Justice in Education. equity-ed.org/archives/985 #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish

Are you an Illinois teacher or school leader? Do you have experience with literacy teaching and/or literacy leadership? We invite you to participate in a study examining educators experiences in teaching literacy and/or leading literacy programming in Illinois. #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish

Announcing the 2025 Whippoorwill Book Award Winner and Honor Books! #iteachenglish #edusky #academicsky

We're searching for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Bilingual-BiCultural Education. Come work with us! #edusky #academicsky jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/en-us/job/52...

🚨🚨 New Publication Alert: Structured, Scripted, and Erased: An Invitation to Recast the Science to Cultivate a Humanity of Readers. 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.33600/IRC... #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish

Illinois Teachers! Join us for the 2025 Illinois State Literacy Conference at Illinois State University. Register at tinyurl.com/ROE17PD. #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish

Today is the day. #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish

Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish

Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish

I 🫶 my governor. Most days.

Congratulations to 650 faculty from United Faculty of Illinois State/University Professionals of Illinois who have their first contract today! This contract will bring transformative change for faculty, students, and community at ISU.✊🎉 www.wglt.org/local-news/2...

Behold the power of collective action! Strike avoided with a tentative agreement between the faculty union and #IllinoisStateUniversity admin. #edusky #academicsky

Faculty standing up for students. Students standing up for faculty. Standing together to hold a university administration accountable to its community. This is the power of organizing. This is teaching and learning in community. #academicsky #edusky comradefranson.substack.com/p/students-m...

It has been many years since I signed my first #union card. Today, I am a proud member of the ISU union as we continue to stand up to a university administration that must be held accountable to the community it serves. #strongertogether #academicsky #edusky #unionstrong jacobin.com/2025/03/illi...

Centering Readers Means Centering Equity Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D. - College of Education | University of South Carolina Register in advance for this free webinar: minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish

United Faculty of ISU members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, and our union officially filed the required Intent to Strike notice with the IL Educational Labor Relations Board. With the legally required 10-day notice filed, members may go on strike as early as April 4. www.ufisu-upi.org

Twiddling your thumbs while waiting to hear whether Columbia will negotiate with a higher-ed kidnapper? Give this a read. Several wonderful Teachers College faculty and I wrote about how we see this moment in Us education across the life span. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

This is the way.

This one’s for all the university admins complying in advance: there is another way.

🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published (open access) in Whiteness and Education: doi.org/10.1080/2379... #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published in Whiteness and Education: dx.doi.org/10.1080/2379... (Open Access).

New Rule: When you receive a peer-reviewed article acceptance you’ve labored over for years, you must Ted Lasso Carlton. ✅

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.

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That I just submitted a new manuscript feeling.

🚨🚨New Publication Alert🚨🚨: The 2024 Whippoorwill Award: Gathering Stories of Indigeneity, Connection, and Belonging. @whippoorwillaward.bsky.social #edusky #academicsky #IteachEnglish #booksky

I mean, have they met the other parts of speech?! Adverbs are definitely terrifying.

President Trump issued an executive order to find out what education funds he can legally rescind based on curriculum he doesn’t like. Existing law already answers that question —nothing.

Manuscript acceptance emails, even implied or explicitly conditional ones, are nice to receive. They help.

“Book bans are real…While a parent has the right to guide their own children’s reading, their beliefs and prejudices should not dictate what another parent chooses for their own children.”

Be sure to check out our YA Wednesday post celebrating the "Intersections of Indigeneity and Rurality in the 2024 Whippoorwill Award Books." #booksky #librarysky #Academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish @whippoorwillaward.bsky.social www.drbickmoresyawednesday.com/weekly-posts...

Same. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🩵🤍🖤🤎

Teachers & librarians! Want an author or illustrator to Zoom into your classroom for World Read Aloud Day? Here's a list of 300+ volunteers who will celebrate with your readers next month! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...

A country where we hire sports coaches and tell them to cover the white supremacist social studies textbook before practice and where we think test scores are more important than kids so we cut social studies and science so we can fit in more test prep and call it reading, math, and intervention.

As Chair of the Social Policy and Legislative Committee of ALER, we put together a research brief to help teachers, librarians, and parents track this legislation by state. I hope this helps. 2024 Special Policy Brief on Book Banning... cdn.ymaws.com/www.aleronli...

Recognizing Inclusivity in Rural Spaces through Young Adult Literature

Ready to discuss Influential Literacy Tactics: Shaping Opinions and Beliefs through Language and Discourse at #LRA2024.

#LRA2024 presentation a success. Great conversations about engaging in racial literacy development with teacher candidates.

Looking forward to some great conversations today around equity pedagogies and racial literacies. #LRA2024

Such a manifesto-ing #LRA2024 session on literacy assessment this morning. Indeed, assessment is making and unmaking us… Assessment should be an ecology, not a machine. reimagininglitassessment.ca

The @whippoorwillaward.bsky.social Presentation for #ALAN24 was a success!

University of Iowa doc program grads reunion at #ALAN24.

Just a portion of my #ALAN24 haul. Excited to dive in and share.

It was great to connect with many authors tonight at the launch of #ALAN24 Thanks, @katemessner.bsky.social @katherinemarsh.bsky.social @joshgalarza.bsky.social and many more. #NCTE24

Time for a conference escape to Oz. Wicked.

I didn’t expect Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) to hit us with the question of our time this morning, but here we are: Will we be ruined by our greed or saved by our ingenuity? 🙌🏻👏🏻 #NCTE24 #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish

I didn’t expect Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) to hit us with the question of our time this morning, but here we are: Will we be ruined by our greed or saved by our ingenuity? 🙌🏻👏🏻 #NCTE24 #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish