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!

A3: The students I have met, the amazing scholars I see whose names I hold as celebrities and only previously knew from article authorships. It has been a dream! #literacies

I may (or may not) be covertly chatting from a class, so I won't get to see the rec until 8:30 CST. It'll be like a little post-class (allegedly) surprise #literacies

A1: I am very new to the #literacies chats. I attended AERA in the spring as a first year doc student, and I was so excited by the ways the W&L sig focused on community building. When I saw there were applications open for the GSB, I knew I had to get involved!

…”hope isn’t a plan — it’s something else, something far more powerful” — David French. Take care of your neighbor.

THANK YOU to Drs. @anna-phd.bsky.social , @esp-phd.bsky.social , and the entire #Literacies chat 'class of 2012' for creating this space built on community, connection, scholarship, practice, and all things #literacies !

I love this! I was also a classroom teacher at the time. Initially, I started learning to play volleyball because my 5th graders loved it, but I realized the world of difference the physical activity had on my mind health too. I love how your story highlighted connection with your colleague! <3

With my colleagues Kaylene Stevens and Erin Fife, our research has documented how at the state level these censorship campaigns hurt students and what teachers are doing to resist. Can offer a way forward for all teachers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@writinglit.bsky.social #literacies Back in the day, a lot of folks used TweetDeck to follow the chats with the #literacies hashtag. Not sure if others already know this, but there's a Bluesky equivalent: deck.blue Just in time for #LiteraciesHomecoming!

REMINDER to join us TOMORROW at 5 PT/7 CT/8 EST for the #literacies homecoming event of the season!

In 2019, Dr. Nicole Mirra @nicole-mirra.bsky.social led a chat over socio-politically situated #literacies politics, research, and youth activism. This feels especially relevant in 2025, and we hope to hear your current takes at HOMECOMING (Tuesday Oct. 28th 5 pm PT; 7 pm CT; 8 pm ET)

Still a work-in-progress, but excited to launch my unit discussing, researching, & writing about the debate surrounding “The Anxious Generation.” Creating a digital whiteboard is infinitely more intuitive & functional than our LMS. All of these materials are hyperlinked to curated articles & media.

This also makes me wonder if/how our questions about space, place & #literacies would/should be different a little over a decade later. How fun is #literacies chat Homecoming going to be! Hope you can make it!

Kicking myself for not knowing about the #literacies chats in 2021 and missing this 😢

As a current doctoral student fortunate to learn all about new literacies and multimodality from Dr. Connors in present day, this is a #literacies celebration indeed!

#BannedBooksWeek Day 2 Volume 2 is out for pre-order and 30% off this week. Five original research articles focus on classroom teachers navigating censorship and the climate of fear. States featured include: Idaho, Iowa, New York, Massachusetts, and Texas. my.ncte.org/s/product-de...

Need some joy & reconnection right now? Come to the #literacies Homecoming! October 28, 2025 @ 7-8 CT. Let's get together to reminisce about the ideas, projects, and most importantly, people we've been able to connect with through the #literacies chat years...and imagine forward together!

Award-winning author Derrick Barnes, National Book Award Finalist and two-time Kirkus Prize winner, joins Dr. Chandra Maxwell, an NWP teacher-leader and equity-focused literacy researcher, to discuss the power of diverse literature in education. #nwpwritenow bit.ly/100125-barnes

Joyful Literacies is front and center at NCTE’s website, and I couldn’t be more privileged to know and learn from these authors! ❤️📚 A definite recommend from me.

Week 3 book recommendations for Hispanic Heritage Month! #HispanicHeritageMonth #KidsLit

Please reach out any time with questions! Or if you experience censorship, I can connect you to folks at various orgs who offer support and guidance. We're in this together and keeping diverse books in kids' hands and in teachers' classrooms is essential work. #literacies

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Absolutely. Anecdotally, I know students that have reached frustration with this reality when they have made efforts to push back and/or speak to school boards. This makes me curious about what #literacies research on this currently looks like (and could look like 👀)

Same, Lexi! Aetornormativity is an issue that needs to be acknowledged and accounted for more often in discussions about book banning. #literacies

Totally fair! It is so real. And not at all stepping on toes. Hopefully you have allies in your department and community who have your back. Parents who will speak at the school board before there's an issue. Maybe you can quietly share this toolkit with them. #literacies

I think about how powerful this element of transparency can be for bridging our connections with families and pushing against and groups seeking to exacerbate divides. #literacies

I have often wondered this very same thing! And felt the question burn in my throat when attending school board meetings discussing censorship that did not also include students to speak for themselves. #literacies

THIS! It makes me reflective over ways we can all help one another get unstuck from this frozen fear state. #literacies

This resonated so deeply with me. I cannot imagine a better way to frame a response to #literacies Q3

This makes me think about the power of administrators regarding #literacies censorship, and how, educators and school librarians can use collective voice to enact change!

Queer texts were the most banned in the early years of this surge (21-22), but are not as often cited. But experts say it's because they've basically been removed in the places likely to remove books. Their absence is so loud. #literacies

Thank you <3. The power of the comfort your words brought me make me think more about ways I can affirm teachers also in this position, and how this shared sense of community through #literacies censorship matters

A2: As a graduate assistant teaching a Children’s & YA Lit course, I recently have been confronted external pressures to self-censor in light of what happened at A&M. The idea that my continued pursuit of inclusive #literacies could threaten other people at my institution is frustrating.

Self-censorship is such a challenging reality for K-12 teachers in this moment. Ginsberg & Chae have a great piece on it in Vol 1 of Impacts of Censorship #literacies

Librarians talk about the difference between available and accessible. Just because a book is available, doesn't mean it is accessible. I appreciate your use of "access" in this context. #literacies

A1: Censorship of #literacies , to me, are intentional acts that restrict, isolate, and/or negate to exert control or invoke indoctrination on a particular population for purposes of power. This definition is just an amalgamation of much more experienced definers (NCTE, critical theorists, etc.)

The pre-party that Banned Books Week DESERVES! 💖

Same! So incredible. We had a collection of encyclopedias as a kid and I would read the sperm whale and giant squid entries over and over, and I can still see the small black and white pictures besides the entries.