A5: Would love to see a #literacies chat that takes up (and returns us to) the topic of critical #literacies! How do we understand its communicative capacity to respond to this moment, its utility in naming injustice, and its promise in building more just social futures!

A4: I'd like to see the #literacies chat expand beyond our once a month conversations. Our team really enjoys putting the chats together, and it would be great to find ways to sustain the momentum generated within these conversations.

New Publication 🚨: Dr. @ankhithakurta.bsky.social and I examined how two communities of young people collaborated to imagine new civic worlds. Our findings highlight how speculation is a situated practice made visible through interaction: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Huge congratulations to @kpsinedu.bsky.social who successfully defended his dissertation proposal today! (🧵1/3) #literacies

New publication 🎉🎉. In this piece, I explore how six teenage boys coauthored imaginative worlds together through RPG play. In particular, I examine innovative moments of “liminal play” when the game, rules, and real-world blurred together. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Join us TONIGHT at 8pm ET for Dreaming With Latinx Teens In The Literacy Classroom with Dr. Carla España. @ncte.org members can register for the free event here: ncte.org/dreaming-wit... #literacies #ncte #literacy

Join the NCTE Middle Level Section next Thursday (5/22) at 8pm ET as we learn from Dr. Carla España and explore instructional strategies for dreaming with Latinx teens! NCTE members can register for the free event here: ncte.org/dreaming-wit... #ncte #literacies #literacy

Join the Literature SIG, the Media, Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO on Friday 4/25 at 8pm MDT!

New Article 🎉: Video games are spaces that blur our identities & relationships across online & offline contexts. Dr. Lima Becker & I explored how 3 Brazilian transnational children in the US did complex relational work w/ friends & family while playing Roblox: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New publication🚨: Mariana Becker and I highlight moments of critical play where three Brazilian immigrant children used innovative practices to represent their transnational identities and resist Roblox paywalls that restrict player access. Read here: tinyurl.com/2a99446y

Our #NCTE2024 from “Humor In and Across Learning Spaces”! Great conversations about integrating humor as a critical practice in learning spaces. The group weathered our technical problems with good humor 😉 @angel.h.ky @scottstorm.bsky.social @alexcorbitt.bsky.social David Low in spirit

Our middle level arts-based activism session at NCTE! Shoutout to Reka Barton, Casey Pennington, and Sarah Bonner for facilitating!! #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

Congrats, @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE Promising Researcher Award! Well deserved, my friend!

Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin are presenting at the Middle-Level Luncheon, and they are hilarious! Real sibling-like relationship on display. Super fun. #Ncte24 MakersintheMiddle

Alethea Madonad (@uhleetheeuh) is dropping tons of gems on writing strategies today at #Ncte24. I love the teacher input happening in this session. That's why we call it #MakersintheMiddle. The teachers engage in these sessions!

Linda Coombs said she's told that Indigenous people have "creation myths". She said, "No, we have creation histories" and I'm now realizing that I'm gonna need to take notes. #NCTE #MakersintheMiddle

Listening to Linda Coombs talks about TEK - Traditional Ecological Knowledge - and Indigenous ways of life. Excited to read her new book, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

Watching @aemaldo.bsky.social share mini-lessons and sample student work from her Social Justice Writing Unit 🔥♥️ #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

The Middle-Level Steering incoming chair @alexcorbitt.bsky.social and outgoing chair Sarah Bonner socializing and on the ground, making with the middle school teachers! That's how we do it at Middle Level!

Listening to Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin explain how they engaged in research - or DETECTIVE work - to write their new book, The Bletchley Riddle at #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

Shoutout to two of our Middle Level Section award winners: Carla España (Richard W Halle Award 🏆) and @brownellcassie.bsky.social (Linda Rief Ward 🏆)!! You do incredible, sustaining work with middle grades students 🙏🏼 #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

Middle level teachers playing, making, and critiquing games as tools for literacy learning! #MakersintheMiddle #NCTE24 #NCTE

#NCTE2024 who wants to think together about humor as a critical literacy practice? Join myself & Angel Ky, @scottstorm.bsky.social, and @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on Sunday at 9am. We’ll be building on David Low’s framework (pictured below, check it out!) #NCTE24

Join the Middle Level Section this weekend at #NCTE24 for an amazing series of interactive sessions.🧵1/7