Power matters in the language classroom but we can redistribute the labor of who gets to be 'home & target cultures' with perspective-making Thank you New York State Department of Education & Erin Kearney! #WorldLanguages #AcademicSky #TeacherEducation www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Language learning is not a privilege, but a necessity - a joy! My autobiographical bilingual children's book explores Spanish language learning in community; as relationship Amplify narratives of linguistic & cultural diversity🌍 #AcademicSky #EduSky #Skybrarian www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore...

as i launch my first ever k-12 study, a class from the course i teach on ed research hits different breaking the observer/ed hierarchy/dichotomy & working as a cultural insider rather than an objectifier is a beautiful labor thank you ancestor Zora so humbled so grateful♥️🖤💚 #EduSky #AcademicSky

Sitting with the timeless wisdom of Fanon today: #WorldLanguages #LanguageEducation #EduSky #AcademicSky #Blackademic #EdResearch

in search of wrapping paper anoche i stumbled upon my graduation announcement. the me of 2022 could not have fathomed the healing i now experience my homie hooded me in the sala i skipped graduation & kept my integrity the pomp dont change your circumstance love does. #EduSky #AcademicSky

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Indescribably proud to lead this team! @spencerfoundation.bsky.social study on Black WL teachers accepted to AAAL 2026 in Chicago! Aminah Raysor & @queendomteaching.bsky.social are brilliant emerging scholars. Let's hear it for them!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 #TeacherEducation #LanguageEducation #BlackWorldLanguaging

Reminder from your friendly neighborhood educational linguist: #CheckYourself #YourSlipIsShowing #BlackWorldLanguaging #AcademicChatter

Our chapter on perspective-making is out! I just received my copy of the handbook of research in world language instruction and couldn’t be more excited! /1

thank you Dr. Bettina Love for sharing this healing in the form of a blog post. iansamag.com/2025/08/04/f... we got this, Black folks... and those w Black politics. we are the revolution❤️🖤💚 #CBCE25

When my 2023 paper was undergoing revisions, my mentor asked me why my verbal description of it to her was different from what I’d written /1

45-year-old Venus Williams becomes the oldest woman since Martina Navratilova to win a singles match apnews.com/article/venu...

a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood educational linguist. don't facilitate antiBlackness through thoughtless discourses! #LanguageMatters #Etymology #TheBlackerTheBetter #EncodingHierarchy #AcademicChatter

The Black language/teacher shortage when narrated within the larger discourse of US higher education, does not reflect shortage, but rather, refusal. So proud of this handbook chapter & sharing as I think the value of it cannot afford to be delayed. Reach out for more info! #TeacherEd #LanguageEd

when a school has challenges w bullying they may look n2 staff policies students communities rarely do they interrogate materials if the 'scramble for Africa,' 'manifest destiny' & 'we're all immigrants' predominate in lessons, the kids are demonstrating proficiency bullying is your curriculum.

nothing more concerning than work (with robust institutional support, no less) that focuses on the existence, proliferation and proficiency of a language while never... not once... centering the well-being of the *people* and *communities* who use the language.

“In this new regime, academic freedom is a liability. Expertise is viewed as arrogance. Critical thinking is rebranded as subversion. The result is a hollow university, one that looks real from the outside but is dead on the inside.” educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/t...

may my contribution to research always be encouraging folks to ask better questions. #LanguageEd #WorldLanguages #TeacherEd #BlackLinguisticReparations #EdLinguistics #Multilingualism #SLA #Academic

#LanguageEd #TeacherEd #WorldLanguages #EdLinguistics #TeacherPreparation #BlackWorldLanguaging #Raciolinguistics #Genealogies Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to communing with the good folks at UW Madison!

so proud of this collaborative work! here's @melissabaralt.bsky.social @clemonsaris.bsky.social & my study on TBLT Spanish instruction with young learners. the possibilities for WL teaching are endless when Black cultural value is assumed❤️🖤💚 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... [dm us for copies]

Join me for a research talk this Friday April 4 at 2pm EST via webinar Thanks to the Spencer Foundation, and to my brilliant team, Dr. Michele Foster, Dawnavyn M. James and Aminah Raysor for making this possible! #TeacherEducation #WorldLanguages #BlackWorldLanguaging #LanguageEducation

We need to tread eugenics with the seriousness we treat the most vile forms of bigotry because eugenics is what turns those bigotries into action items.

yess! so exicted to engage with @drpatriannsmith.bsky.social , Dr. Shondel Nero, Dr. Lakeya Afolalu all facilitated by @proferandolph.bsky.social more details here: www.aaal.org/2025-austin-... hope y'all will come through!

www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA... #LanguageEducation #SilenceWillNotProtectUs

So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism

a timely and important message from the new president of @actfl.bsky.social regarding how we engage Black and minoritized voices in #WorldLanguages looking forward to your leadership! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Thrilled to share something we have been working on for years! Racial Justice in Multilingual Education is a bold new space for groundbreaking ideas, fresh perspectives, and innovative research. #NewJournal #MultilingualEducation You can visit us at rjme.org. First issue is coming August 2025!

funny thing the govt re-criminalizing your history, life & reality no #BHM at school yet before & after February Civil Rights Music- music class social studies- redlining a project on unsung heroes "They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes But I laugh & eat well & grow strong." LH

🏫 K-12 public schools in the 🇺🇸: apply for a grant to support French #DualLanguage, #FrenchImmersion, French Heritage, or #WorldLanguage programs! 🥐🇫🇷 Deadline: March 2! #FrenchForAll #Frenched #bilingualed #langchat #education #publicschools

let's kick off this new page with a thread, because... what?! 1/n

hey there, blue sky! took awhile for me to come aboard, but i am glad to reunite w so many throwback twitter friends😊 im an assistant professor of teacher education, multilingualism and language education at SUNY buffalo ed.buffalo.edu/about/direct... back for the knowledge sharing & community❤️🖤💚