NOTE THE TIME DIFFERENCE ( 6-7:00pm EST/ 3-4pm PST)!!! #literacies

Save the date! #literacies

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One of many issues with right coded classical education. Instead of treating canonical texts as invitations to explore and appreciate truth and beauty, it treats them as the embodiment of truth and beauty. Under this model, reading is about submission to existing ideas, not making meaning of them.

Or dinosaurs. Dinosaurs likely had feathers or feather-like structures. Dickenson didn't know that when she wrote her poem, but I do, and there are days when I want to channel the energy of a velociraptor and their friends.

I am still going through posts this morning. We'd love to hear any added wisdom or questions. #literacies

A5. Being on the market was so emotionally taxing. It made me question myself, test my patience, and exist in long-term uncertainty. What kept me going was a group chat with others on the market where we could vent. Also a nice early 2000’s emo playlist #literacies

I’M READY! #literacies

This becomes most important at the point of campus visits. Start your talk w/ a brief introduction to who you are. Not only in terms of your research & scholarship, but in regards to what you value, your axiological commitments. For some, this is the only time they'll interface w/ you #literacies

Thank you all for joining tonight! Please keep in touch and explore Dr. Hedrick-Shaw's upcoming work! #literacies

Using the job talk as a bridge for how you fit an institution and its context! #literacies

This was definitely the advice I got. I was told "it's a national search" unless I wanted to limit options.

I think it’s also important to practice responses to anticipated questions. Keep answers under 2 min. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen is when candidates get nervous and take too long to answer one Q, not leaving time for others. Committees usually have 7-10 Qs to get through in 20-30 min.

Yeeeessss #literacies Grad meet up/business meeting is the best!

Footage of my current notetaking:

A1. As a student, I feel like the advice I hear the most is that if I want a job in academia, I have to forfeit geography. I am fortunate that my partner is flexible, but I do feel guilt about potentially moving us fa away from his family. :/ #literacies

I’m Lexi Woodward Lexi K Woodward, and I’ll be moderating tonight’s #literacies chat. I want to make a special shoutout to the rest of the W&L grad student board Bsky team: Kyle P. Smith, Caroline B. Rabalais, Nicole R. Misra she/her, Clara Abbott#literacies

Less than a min to #literacies! All are welcome to the conversation on Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics.

Tomorrow’s #literacies chat on “Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics” will take place at 5:00-6pm PT/ 8-9pm ET. Join us!

Ready for our next #literacies chat? Please join us in one week for our chat where we consider “Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics” hosted by Dr. Hedrick-Shaw (Devon Hedrick-Shaw#literacies#literacies

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Who else is devouring this absolute treasure?! ❤️🤩📚 #literacies

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