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Karis Jones @karismjones.bsky.social · Jul 6

Many thanks to CHOICE Magazine and A.L. Hsu for this review of our book in their July 2025 issue! We hope this is a compelling summer read for educators looking to disrupt their classrooms this fall 🔥 💻 💭
#literacies
@scottstorm.bsky.social

Choice magazine book review for “Fandoms in the Classroom: A Social Justice Approach to Transforming Literacy Learning.” Includes information for Myers Ed Press (no Bluesky account though)

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Jun 23

I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Disciplinary literacy explores knowledge-producing communities, but less often considers youth as scholars in their own right, particularly as related to English language arts. Drawing on theories of...

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ready for our next #literacies chat? Please join us in one week for our chat where we consider “Queer and Trans-Affirming #literacies: Context, Discomfort, Agency” hosted by Dr. Stephanie Anne Shelton (@sashelton.bsky.social)!

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Jun 18

Can't wait to read this article in Reading Research Quarterly by @srtoliver.bsky.social The graphical abstract is 🔥🔥🔥

sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · Jun 16

I’ve never done a “graphical abstract” for a paper before, but this is one for an article (Confronting Colonial Control: Afrofuturist Literacy Stances Versus Book Bans in the Battle for Spacetime) that will come out soon in RRQ (Reading Research Quarterly)!

Graphical abstract of a research paper. Flows from colonial power to research approach to meta-ethnographic findings to conceptual innovation to conceptual findings.

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Jun 5

Love this Edutopia article by @cberwick.bsky.social ‪‪on igniting student passions! Sage quotes from @amystorn.bsky.social & @anterobot.bsky.social. Examples from ELA teachers using fandoms! Nice shout out for @karismjones.bsky.social & my book! #literacies #iteachEnglish tinyurl.com/2s4r66rs

From Superheroes to Taylor Swift: Using Students’ Passions to Ignite Learning

By inviting students to dissect the texts they love—from music lyrics to horror films—teachers are unlocking deeper engagement and critical literacy skills.

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Karis Jones @karismjones.bsky.social · Apr 26

Next book tour stop: #AERA2025! Thanks to everyone who came to one of our fandom media presentations or stopped by the booth to get a book signed by me and @scottstorm.bsky.social
We love hearing from readers about ways they are dreaming about reimagining their literacy learning classrooms!

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thrilled to have the hard copy of this fantastic book from @karismjones.bsky.social & @scottstorm.bsky.social! Though I’m already very familiar with their scholarship, reading how they’ve framed their work for classroom Ts is inspiring. A fantastic example of research🤝practice. Highly recommend!

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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · Jan 17

I'm so excited to read this new book by @scottstorm.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social! It combines my love of fandom with my love of ELA!

A picture of the book, Fandoms in the Classroom: A Social Justice Approach to Transforming Literacy Learning" by Karis Jones and Scott Storm.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · Dec 5

Creating intersections between Ss interests & complex disciplinary content always reminds me how much we underestimate teens.

Just had a Ss submit an 8-minute video essay using Freud, Lacan, & Jung to interpret Donnie Darko. Both the content & use of form were 🔥.

#literacies #edusky #academicsky

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Jan 14

Excited my new book written with @karismjones.bsky.social is in print!! It shows how to design classrooms that are fun and intellectual by drawing on strengths of fan communities. Bring some Comic Con magic to your classroom! Request that your library get copies! #literacies #edusky #ITeachEnglish

The front and back covers of a new book "Fandoms int eh Classroom" by Karis Jones and Scott Storm. Front cover image shows a girl sitting cross-legged on the floor in a classroom. She if framed by large wooden bookcases and is surrounded by books, comics, computers, and a digital tablet as well as a jovial cartoon dragon whose body is magically popping in and out of the floor. The classroom floor and wall are bright orange and the cover art invites wonder and whimsy in a rich intellectual environment

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Dana H. Maloney @danahm.bsky.social · Nov 27

Fun prompt: dreaming up proposal ideas about dreaming. After #ncte24, what would you like to see at #ncte25 and/or what are you dreaming up?

Thank you, @anterobot.bsky.social, incl for the inspiring design! convention.ncte.org/cfp/

NCTE 2025 Call for Proposals

Submit your proposal for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention! Share innovative ideas and practices that empower educators to dream, collaborate, and inspire equity and justice in English language arts edu...

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National Council of Teachers of English @ncte.org · Jan 13

Friday is the deadline to apply for the #NCTE25 proposal reviewer and coach team: ncte.org/events/2025-...

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Jan 7

We are excited to have this book in print! And we were privileged to work with one of my former students, Samantha Muniz, who did the cover art! She was so inspired by the course featured in this book that she drew the cover as a self portrait where she is surrounded by her favorite fandoms!!

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Dec 12

Check out
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social
and Mariana Becker’s piece about Roblox! They look carefully at issues of play and paywalls!! This paper is 🔥 🔥 🔥

Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Dec 12

New publication🚨: Mariana Becker and I highlight moments of critical play where three Brazilian immigrant children used innovative practices to represent their transnational identities and resist Roblox paywalls that restrict player access. Read here: tinyurl.com/2a99446y

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Dec 12

New publication🚨: Mariana Becker and I highlight moments of critical play where three Brazilian immigrant children used innovative practices to represent their transnational identities and resist Roblox paywalls that restrict player access. Read here: tinyurl.com/2a99446y

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Dec 3

On my way to the Literacy Research Association’s conference! I am jumping with excitement like a muppet!! Can’t wait to see everyone! Get in touch if you will be there. #Literacies #LRA2024

a close up of a muppet that says aaahhhhh !!!

Alt: a close up of a muppet that says aaahhhhh !!!

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · Nov 28

Congratulations, again, @scottstorm.bsky.social! Check out Aesthetic #Literacies in Digital Learning Ecologies today!

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice @lrtmp.bsky.social · Nov 27

📢 Publication alert!
💡 The Literacy Research Association 2023 Student Outstanding Research Awardee @scottstorm.bsky.social’s article “Aesthetic Literacies in Digital Learning Ecologies: Tracing Aesthetic Tools and Functions in a Youth Literary Salon” is now live at journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx

Text on a light background of bookshelves Student Outstanding Research Award Aesthetic Literacies in Digital Learning Ecologies: Tracing Aesthetic Tools and Functions in a Youth Literary Salon Scott Storm

Concerned with disinformation, fake news, and a posttruth era, literacy research on digital learning ecologies has examined content of the texts that youth encounter but have focused less explicitly on aesthetics-issues of form or the way a text is written. This article examines aesthetic literacy practices of queer youth of color and allies in an online summer literary salon. Findings reveal that youth engagement with aesthetic tools achieve poetic, catalytic, and ideological functions complicating previous understandings of disinformation, fake news, and critical reasoning in literacies research.

Literacy Research: Theory, Method & Practice Bluesky @LRTMP Facebook LRTMP Instagram @LR_TMP Created in partnership with the Education Now Lab
Check out Volume 73!

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Nov 28

Thanks, Anna!! And also a thank you to both you and @ljhands.bsky.social for your incredible work on LR:TMP!!!

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Nicole Mirra @nicole-mirra.bsky.social · Nov 27

I'm so excited that #literacies folks have found each other here - I hope that the conversations continue because we are going to need each other for the fights ahead

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 24

Our middle level arts-based activism session at NCTE! Shoutout to Reka Barton, Casey Pennington, and Sarah Bonner for facilitating!!

#NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · Nov 25

I'm beyond honored and grateful to have received the #NCTE2024 National Intellectual Freedom Award this year! I'm thankful to be in coalition with so many awesome educators (including @sheathescholar.bsky.social and @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social here) fighting book banning and fascism!

A picture of shea martin, Cody Miller, and Carrie Mattern. Cody is holding a plaque.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · Nov 25

**Obligatory conference afterglow post**

Conferences are about two things: people and ideas. This is true whether you’re listening to a comedian deliver a keynote, presenting the latest in #literacies research with friends, or accidentally closing down the hotel bar. Thanks for the mems, #NCTE24!

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Kyle P. Smith @kpsinedu.bsky.social · Nov 23

Congrats, @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE Promising Researcher Award! Well deserved, my friend!

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · Nov 23

Excited to be facilitating a session at #NCTE24 today about aesthetics, critical theory, and close reading literature for social justice! There will be relay races using literary theory! There will be abstract artistic mappings of literary elements! Come be Literarians with us! #literacies #NCTE

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