Michael J. Young, Ph. D.
@suupermichael.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Elementary Literacy Education, Illinois State University. Critical Educator/Scholar. Queer. Dog Dad. Views are my own. Unless you share them. Then they're ours. In dialogue, of course.
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🚨🚨 New Publication Alert: Structured, Scripted, and Erased: An Invitation to Recast the Science to Cultivate a Humanity of Readers. 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.33600/IRC... #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish
Are you an Illinois teacher or school leader? Do you have experience with literacy teaching and/or literacy leadership? We invite you to participate in a study examining educators experiences in teaching literacy and/or leading literacy programming in Illinois. #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Are you an Illinois teacher or school leader? Do you have experience with literacy teaching and/or literacy leadership? We invite you to participate in a study examining educators experiences in teaching literacy and/or leading literacy programming in Illinois. #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish
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Announcing the 2025 Whippoorwill Book Award Winner and Honor Books! #iteachenglish #edusky #academicsky
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Announcing the 2025 Whippoorwill Book Award Winner and Honor Books! #iteachenglish #edusky #academicsky
We're searching for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Bilingual-BiCultural Education. Come work with us! #edusky #academicsky jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/en-us/job/52...
Assistant/Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education | Jobs | Illinois State
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October 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We're searching for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Bilingual-BiCultural Education. Come work with us! #edusky #academicsky jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/en-us/job/52...
🚨🚨 New Publication Alert: Structured, Scripted, and Erased: An Invitation to Recast the Science to Cultivate a Humanity of Readers. 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.33600/IRC... #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🚨🚨 New Publication Alert: Structured, Scripted, and Erased: An Invitation to Recast the Science to Cultivate a Humanity of Readers. 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.33600/IRC... #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish
Illinois Teachers! Join us for the 2025 Illinois State Literacy Conference at Illinois State University. Register at tinyurl.com/ROE17PD. #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish
July 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Illinois Teachers! Join us for the 2025 Illinois State Literacy Conference at Illinois State University. Register at tinyurl.com/ROE17PD. #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish
June 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish
May 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish
Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish
May 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish
I 🫶 my governor. Most days.
May 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I 🫶 my governor. Most days.
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Congratulations to 650 faculty from United Faculty of Illinois State/University Professionals of Illinois who have their first contract today! This contract will bring transformative change for faculty, students, and community at ISU.✊🎉 www.wglt.org/local-news/2...
ISU and faculty union reach tentative deal, averting strike
Illinois State University and its faculty union reached a tentative agreement Friday that will avert a strike that could have begun at any moment. Terms of the deal were not immediately clear.
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April 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Congratulations to 650 faculty from United Faculty of Illinois State/University Professionals of Illinois who have their first contract today! This contract will bring transformative change for faculty, students, and community at ISU.✊🎉 www.wglt.org/local-news/2...
Behold the power of collective action! Strike avoided with a tentative agreement between the faculty union and #IllinoisStateUniversity admin. #edusky #academicsky
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Behold the power of collective action! Strike avoided with a tentative agreement between the faculty union and #IllinoisStateUniversity admin. #edusky #academicsky
Faculty standing up for students. Students standing up for faculty. Standing together to hold a university administration accountable to its community. This is the power of organizing. This is teaching and learning in community. #academicsky #edusky comradefranson.substack.com/p/students-m...
Students must stand in solidarity with United Faculty of ISU
Students are a crucial part to Illinois State University. UFISU fights for us, so we must fight for them, too.
comradefranson.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Faculty standing up for students. Students standing up for faculty. Standing together to hold a university administration accountable to its community. This is the power of organizing. This is teaching and learning in community. #academicsky #edusky comradefranson.substack.com/p/students-m...
It has been many years since I signed my first #union card. Today, I am a proud member of the ISU union as we continue to stand up to a university administration that must be held accountable to the community it serves. #strongertogether #academicsky #edusky #unionstrong jacobin.com/2025/03/illi...
Illinois State University Is Facing a Potential Faculty Strike
Elite institutions of higher education tend to grab most headlines. But non-elite public colleges have dealt with relentless austerity for decades — which is why Illinois State University faculty just...
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March 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It has been many years since I signed my first #union card. Today, I am a proud member of the ISU union as we continue to stand up to a university administration that must be held accountable to the community it serves. #strongertogether #academicsky #edusky #unionstrong jacobin.com/2025/03/illi...
Centering Readers Means Centering Equity
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D. - College of Education | University of South Carolina
Register in advance for this free webinar: minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D. - College of Education | University of South Carolina
Register in advance for this free webinar: minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish
March 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Centering Readers Means Centering Equity
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D. - College of Education | University of South Carolina
Register in advance for this free webinar: minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D. - College of Education | University of South Carolina
Register in advance for this free webinar: minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish
United Faculty of ISU members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, and our union officially filed the required Intent to Strike notice with the IL Educational Labor Relations Board. With the legally required 10-day notice filed, members may go on strike as early as April 4. www.ufisu-upi.org
March 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
United Faculty of ISU members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, and our union officially filed the required Intent to Strike notice with the IL Educational Labor Relations Board. With the legally required 10-day notice filed, members may go on strike as early as April 4. www.ufisu-upi.org
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Twiddling your thumbs while waiting to hear whether Columbia will negotiate with a higher-ed kidnapper?
Give this a read. Several wonderful Teachers College faculty and I wrote about how we see this moment in Us education across the life span.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Give this a read. Several wonderful Teachers College faculty and I wrote about how we see this moment in Us education across the life span.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty
docs.google.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Twiddling your thumbs while waiting to hear whether Columbia will negotiate with a higher-ed kidnapper?
Give this a read. Several wonderful Teachers College faculty and I wrote about how we see this moment in Us education across the life span.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Give this a read. Several wonderful Teachers College faculty and I wrote about how we see this moment in Us education across the life span.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
This is the way.
I refuse to vote for Republicans’ slush fund bill that grants Trump and Elon Musk permission to continue rigging our government and our economy against the middle class.
It would greenlight even more chaos and more cuts to critical programs.
Hell no, I cannot support that.
It would greenlight even more chaos and more cuts to critical programs.
Hell no, I cannot support that.
March 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is the way.
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This one’s for all the university admins complying in advance: there is another way.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This one’s for all the university admins complying in advance: there is another way.
🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published (open access) in Whiteness and Education: doi.org/10.1080/2379... #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish @tandfresearch.bsky.social
‘When the state looks at you’: administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching
Elementary literacy education policy continues to centre intensified use of standardised testing in the early elementary grades across the United States. The increase of datafication in schooling w...
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March 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published (open access) in Whiteness and Education: doi.org/10.1080/2379... #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish @tandfresearch.bsky.social
🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published in Whiteness and Education: dx.doi.org/10.1080/2379... (Open Access).
March 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published in Whiteness and Education: dx.doi.org/10.1080/2379... (Open Access).
March 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published in Whiteness and Education: dx.doi.org/10.1080/2379... (Open Access).
New Rule: When you receive a peer-reviewed article acceptance you’ve labored over for years, you must Ted Lasso Carlton. ✅
a man with a mustache is standing in a kitchen and says does the carlton
ALT: a man with a mustache is standing in a kitchen and says does the carlton
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February 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
New Rule: When you receive a peer-reviewed article acceptance you’ve labored over for years, you must Ted Lasso Carlton. ✅
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.
February 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.
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Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts.
WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders
WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders
February 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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