SO excited for this. A blast from the #literacies past.

I've not yet met a teacher who testifies in favor of the legislation that restricts books in classrooms. #literacies

Less than a min to #literacies! All are welcome to the conversation on Censorship and #Literacies.

For clarification, this month's chat with Dr. Ann David "Censorship and #Literacies " will be taking place on THURSDAY, September 25th. We are so excited to connect!

The AI and Education discourse is maddening. "Does AI improve learning?" is a dumb question. What form of "AI" and in what context? What do you mean by learning? Improving on a test or knowledge for use? If you're asking that question, you don't actually care about a real answer.

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for OVER one month. The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding Mr. Kim’s release. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...

We want to welcome our two new GSB Members to our Bluesky Team: Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social and Lexi K. Woodward @lexikwoodward.bsky.social! #literacies

let's do this! everyone join!

As the school year begins center young writers in a rapidly changing digital landscape by adding Open World Writing to your pedagogical toolkit. Tons of activities and ideas to try across ages and spaces! doi-org.proxy.library.upenn.edu/10.1002/jaal...

One more day! See you all tomorrow night for an exciting #literacies chat 🤗

So excited for this! Please mark your calendars and join us for what is sure to be a cool convo!

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

NEW: ICE's "roving patrols" in Los Angeles have led to unconstitutional arrests of people agents suspect — without probable cause — are in the country illegally, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

This is such a dream

It’s going to be a great week.

Amy Sherald’s subjects — fashionably dressed Black people rendered in shades of gray — tell a story, recalling writers like Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, and their poetic yet unflinching refusal to look away from the everyday horrors of American life.

Another resource educators can use to teach students about the people doing the work that makes AI possible comes from @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Visit the Data Workers Inquiry at: data-workers.org

Here's the correct one!! @writinglit.bsky.social

In an “illustrated texts” class, students made fanzines about graphic novels, forming new analyses and narratives by cutting/collaging excerpts from what they read, and I heard the coolest lightbulb moment: “Wait, are we restorying?” @amystorn.bsky.social and @ebonyteach.bsky.social ✨

Penn employees and students marching the petition, signed by over 1,000 of our coworkers, to College Hall. This beauty is 30 feet long!

What an honor to co-author this article on Open World Writing, a writer-centered approach to feedback and coaching in a postdigital age. Check this out and share with the teachers, coaches and writers in your life! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“In order to understand schools in this country, you have to understand what they have meant for black people and native people” Thank you @eveewing.bsky.social for sharing your careful, profound, and always timely scholarship with Philly last night 🔥

Very excited to let you know that Season 5 of Pop & Play is coming March 11! This season we dive deep into children's media. We have some OUTSTANDING guests (as always) and slight spoiler, puppets play an outsized role... Check out the trailer and all our off-season Pop Off's now!

Chewing on this article today and thinking about the endless ways the nuclear family limits possibilities for intergenerational care. Here’s to different ways of showing up for kids, beyond “having” them. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Yesterday I got to talk zines, writing with AI, and creating brave spaces for youth writing and artwork at the Penn Ethnography Forum with @amystorn.bsky.social @rabani.bsky.social, and the rest of our fab intergenerational research team. Still smiling!

Injecting new criteria into grant applications based on partisanship & political agendas does all the things Trump is accusing institutions of doing through DEI: create ideological rules that people have to follow in order to have their science considered. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

“I'm very grateful to our Hamline staff here for upholding all of our protocols and ensuring the safety of our students,” Ortega said. “We will not open our doors for ICE, and we are here to protect our children and make sure they have access to an excellent education.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/u...

NME is such an amazing UK-based coalition committed to dismantling racism and working towards abolitionist education. Read their letter to educators here and follow their work: drive.google.com/file/d/1T6mp...

A thread on what you can do. You might not know how best to use what resources you have acces to in order to help those undocumented right now, that’s ok. Start THERE, you DO have resources that go a LONG WAY at your fingertips. get to know them. Here’s a few

Disabled and senior people constitute the highest number of deaths in climate disasters like wildfires and flooding due to poor planning and lack of investment by the govt. Something I wrote about wildfires in Northern CA: sf.curbed.com/2018/11/13/1... #LAFires #LAFirestorm2025

Merry Christmas to all

🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/sbwo...

Being a parent is incredibly scary! But "parent's rights" is about control. Care and trust, not control, is the best way to manage our fear and empower our children to grow and learn. More in this week's Pop Off www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...

Rest in Power Nikki Giovanni. Here is her iconic conversation with James Baldwin in full. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OP...

ICYMI: “A Sketch of Sunday,” new from Ebony. “We did not consider ourselves an artistic family. I hope anyone who believes something like this will read my comic and consider their family’s artistic expressions, which they might have otherwise dismissed as mere labor.” www.moma.org/magazine/art...

Hey #LRA paid members. We need more signatures to better support organizational transparency. www.change.org/p/amend-byla...

This week, we organized another strictly non-academic writing group, in which we wrote poems, letters, stories, journal entries - would highly recommend. We had friends there across disciplines and interests, in and out of academia - we played music and just wrote. Third spaces are so good.

I wrote a poem about my grandfather, Anthony S. Abbott, and it was published in t’art magazine. It’s a beautiful publication for queer art/artists! Sharing here because he was the one who made me fall in love with reading as a child - all my work is in his memory www.t-artpress.co.uk/wintereditio...

Thank you @karismjones.bsky.social and @mraleosays.bsky.social for organizing this cool space! So many new ideas for bringing multimodal texts into the classroom ✨ Love any chance I get to chat about zines!

This was SUCH a highlight of #ncte24 so far. Loved bouncing off ideas with educators about integrating zines/zinemaking into classroom practice. Also loved learning more about webtoons, video essays, and other genres! 💡

Sharing experiences of writing in community with youth at #ncte24 with Jen, Danielle, Barrett, Emmy, @rabani.bsky.social…this is truly my dream job ✨

Come see us in an hour at #ncte2024 ✨