Today is the final day to apply for support for #AERA2026 through the Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund! www.aera.net/Education-Re...

But some of you were mad when we suggested linguistics had a race problem

A5: AERA 2026 (of course)! I’m also looking forward to moving from coursework through my comprehensive exams and the even more nuanced understandings of where my passion for #literacies fits in the broader perspectives of the ~field~ that will bring.

*adds to my list of book pre-orders to be on the lookout for* 🤩

Please share widely this important scholarship— it’s open access.

About that, one of my professors in grad school told me one that "the week cannot last seven days" - I've turned that into a mantra as a professor so I can always have time off to regroup #literacies

Yesss please start knitting!! It’s really something that keeps me sane. Here’s my current #wip and a recent cast off! (The red top in the second picture)

Yeeess! I wish I could knit! I did wear two of my most recent creations to LRA #literacies

A1: While not always, this break I’m itching to try out a new creative hobby. Knitting, in particular, has my attention 👀 thanks to @nicolermisra.bsky.social , @carolinebr.bsky.social , and @drannd.bsky.social #literacies

Applications are open for the Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund! This fund will provide support to enable Graduate Student members of AERA with demonstrated need to offset the cost of attending #AERA2026. Applications are due January 7. www.aera.net/Education-Re...

Q1: How do you take time to care for yourself during breaks in semesters? #literacies

Join us today for our December #literacies chat! We'll be doing a slow version of the chat where we post one question a day. We'll start today and go through Friday. We will use a Q1, Q2, Q3...format for questions. Please use A1, A2...format for answers. And be sure to use the #literacies hashtag!

✈️ Heading to the Literacy Research Association annual conference? 💡 Here are LR:TMP co-editor, @anna-phd.bsky.social 5 Ideas for Turning LRA Presentations into LR:TMP Papers! 💻 Submission to LR:TMP are open to LRA presenters and are due February 6, 2026 at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lrtmp

Week 4 of Native American Heritage Month! #IndigenousLit #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousIllustrators

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Who else just set their alarms to 4 am for this event?? LET'S GO! 🥳

A6: I really went for it with my undergrad students this year! We designed a whole unit around digging into their favorite discourse communities (i.e. fandoms), studying the genres they use, and ultimately producing a text that they felt was authentic to that community. #literacies

Exactly, it is okay not to know and to let students be excited together or explain it. #literacies

The FOMO is so real 😭 #literacies Anyone I can send my book with that would get it signed for me???

A6: This was a practice that I felt I could do much more easily as a classroom teacher. Currently, I am dreaming about how to engage and excite the college students I get to teach about how to begin this work. #literacies

A4: This shifts the epistemic authority in the room from a model based on age/title/position to one built on expertise in different communities and domains. I've found some Ss take time to free themselves from school-ish norms & expectations, but when they do amazing work can happen! #literacies

A5: Classrooms can easily feel like “doing school” with a focus on compliance. Instead, support students to follow their intellectual passions! Give choice about what texts to read, work to produce, and questions to pursue. I’ve seen this work in diverse and inclusive public schools! #literacies

A5: I think moving away from co-opting happens in all the small decisions educators reposition themselves away from being central and instead, elevate students to lead the #literacies interactions and invite the beautiful messiness that that can entail into the classroom :)

A3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies

A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies

TRULY! I feel this in my soul.

There is SO much to read. I feel a bit out of my depth because a lot of my reading has been in the multilingual #literacies sphere and mostly in school, so I am excited to listen and learn tonight. #literacies

A2: Thankfully, fandoms built my #literacies far more than my K-12 schooling. It was through these literary interactions that I developed a belief about the social practice way before encountering Street’s work! Perhaps, most influential of all, my fandom experiences posited #literacies as JOY!

A1: This is such a difficult question because the answer is INFINITE! As a student, I feel like I encounter new #literacies scholarship and scholars that inspire me every day.

Enjoying a little light reading on this overcast fall day in honor of today’s #literacies chat!

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**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss fandoms and #Literacies!

Is it Tuesday yet?! 💙🥹

Gus would like me to share that all meeting organizers should think carefully before interrupting this critical writing time for what could easily fit in an email. (His words, not mine 🤷🏻‍♀️🐶✍️)

Ibuprofen and an umbrella! Bring snacks too!

Who will we see at next week's #literacies chat? Join @scottstorm.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social in discussing their new book, Fandoms in the Classroom!

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

It’s officially conference season, and kicking it off with ALER in [what feels like] my backyard is a real treat! 💙

I am so excited to be a part of organizing this event! #RJME #RacialJustice #MultilingualEducation

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

Almost sounds as if you were Gatsby himself 🤣

Social studies teachers: Please teach your students this week that land can't vote. Thank you for your attention to this matter! #edusky #sschat

Grad students! Looking for an incredible publishing opportunity? Check out JoLLE!

"Raise a glass to freedom Something they can never take away No matter what they tell you Raise a glass to the four of us Tomorrow, there'll be more of us Telling the story of tonight!" (I had to! 😆)

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

When multiple students say stuff like “You aren’t going to tell us how many paragraphs our paper has to have or how many pieces of evidence we have to have per paragraph? But that’s how we were trained!” it really shows how algorithms replaced writing well before chatbots. It’s about pedagogy. 🤷‍♂️

Celebrate the #Halloween season with these diverse books! Whether you’re looking for something cute or creepy, this list has something for readers of any age and scare-level 🎃📚

I used this book for a mid-term presentation over fandom #literacies, and it is my favorite thing in the world!!!!

A5: I am thinking about how we can source feedback from practitioners to consider their desires in topics and projects moving #literacies forward

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!