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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

What we do with our time together in school *does* matter a great deal in shaping the way we view ourselves and each other in relation to society and our shared interactions with the world.

So how should we spend that time?
What are we *building* together in our time at school?

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

We've lost sight of schools as places where we induct young people into the club of our shared humanity.

Instead, in the wealthiest nation on earth, we foolishly replicate scarcity models and force young humans to compete for time and rank over knowledge that is virtually free to access!

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere in the recent past, a coup overthrew the spirit of education with the stuff of schooling, and we've seen the system remade entirely in that image.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 1d

I feel like I'm seeing a lot less "it's not my job to educate you" from people and that makes me very happy. Fighting disinformation and building revolutionary capacity is everyone's job, because the people in power ain't gonna do it for us

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 1d

The amount of time I spend thinking about this can’t be overstated.

@scottstorm.bsky.social

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

let’s have a conference

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who’s designed lots of PD, it’s obvious teachers like it when you treat them like professional adults with intellectual interests/pursuits. As someone who’s endured lots of PD workshops, it’ll never cease to amaze me how many consultants (& the admin who hire them) don’t understand this.

Chris Sardo @mcsardo.bsky.social · 9d

This 100% - so much PD is focused on chasing whatever the latest fad in edtech or pedagogy-speak instead of giving teachers time to hone their craft by reading deeply and broadly in their fields.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 9d

teachers also need time and incentive to read

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 3d

💯 It’s funny because whenever someone edits my work (either a co-author or editor) they’re so cautious and respectful about voice—and I’m like “Dear lord, please save me from myself!”

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 3d

We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!

This flyer reads: "I'm going to the #literacies Homecoming. October 29, 2025. 5-6PM PT|7-8PM CT|8-9PM ET. Hosted by @writinglit.bsky.social"

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 3d

Who else remembers chatting all things multimodality in Oct. 2012 w/ Drs. Sean Connors (profconnors.bsky.social), Darren Crovitz, Michael Manderino (mmanderino.bsky.social), and Ryan Rish (ryanrish.bsky.social) ?!
We can't wait to celebrate how everyone's work has evolved at #literacies HOMECOMING!

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 3d

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

K-pop Fandoms Through Durkheim’s Lens

Lani Tran-Nguyen

#FanStudies

journals.calstate.edu/csf/article/...

K-pop Fandoms Through Durkheim’s Lens | California Sociology Forum

journals.calstate.edu

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3d

"Unsilencing Gratia is a TTRPG book designed to be an easy introduction to collaborative storytelling, usable in a classroom setting."

digthisbird.itch.io/unsilencing-...

Unsilencing Gratia by digthisbird

A TTRPG designed for new TTRPG players without a GM. Designed specifically for ELA classrooms, but useable anywhere!

digthisbird.itch.io

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3d

2 resources we talked about:

We Know Something You Don't Know - "We designed our game to foster critical conversations about the structures of schools and the people who navigate them. Our game includes reflection questions to support those conversations."

virginialund.itch.io/we-know-some...

We Know Something You Don't Know by virginialund, karisjones

A tabletop roleplaying game in the Belonging Outside Belonging system.

virginialund.itch.io

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 3d

Had an incredibly fun conversation this morning with @nashb.bsky.social, @karismjones.bsky.social, @virginiak.bsky.social, and @mraleosays.bsky.social about game-based literacies, multiliteracies, and their expansive Reader-Player Interactivity Framework!

Figure 1, which approximates a lily pad, signals elements shared by all texts (indicated by
the water, representing the influence of the social and cultural world; the leaf of the lily pad,
representing the socioculturally constructed practices and communities that define normative
interaction with texts; and the center of the lily, representing embodied interaction and the
transactional meaning making that all readers engage in). The petals of the lily represent four
invitations to interact, but are intentionally shown overlapping; the boundaries between these
invitations are porous.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Jennifer Tannous @jatannous.bsky.social · 4d

Writing center directors/ writing instructors/ leaders and everyone with a thought about the future of writing instruction and feedback, join us this March at UConn, Storrs! Proposals due Nov 3rd. For more info SSWCA.org

@thevogelman.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 5d

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 5d

I’m shilling CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY hard because I’m so proud of it —specifically because it, like every close reading, is the product of a community and an offering to a community.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
and I collaborated with each other and also 22 brilliant contributors.

stack of copies of CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 5d

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah! Love to hear it. Can’t wait to hear how it develops.

a man in a black hoodie is sitting in the stands during a basketball game and says lets gooooo .

ALT: a man in a black hoodie is sitting in the stands during a basketball game and says lets gooooo .

media.tenor.com

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 5d

This is a real issue when it comes to pushing back against schoolish-ness. I’ve had Ss confess that, since they know my policies are flexible & learning focused, they’ve put my coursework on the back burner to meet deadlines for other courses. I don’t blame them, of course, but arms race is right.

Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 5d

One of the things that drives me most absolutely mad is the arms-race effect among students taking multiple demanding courses. If a students has 4-7 APs and Dual Enrollments, the only way to ensure they prioritize yours is with more vicious deadlines and harsher workloads than the other class has.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 7d

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