Allyson Compton
@allysoncompton.bsky.social
assistant professor @ Iona U | social studies education, teacher learning, and posthumanism | motherscholar
This! 👇🏼
Will you be attending #AERA25?
I'm part of three sessions. Topics:
- The role of research towards a multiracial democracy
- The intersections of education justice and teacher learning
- The work of graduate students studying race and education
A participant. A panelist. A chair.
We outside!
I'm part of three sessions. Topics:
- The role of research towards a multiracial democracy
- The intersections of education justice and teacher learning
- The work of graduate students studying race and education
A participant. A panelist. A chair.
We outside!
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This! 👇🏼
Honored to be in thought partnership with these incredible scholars! Come join us at #AERA25 tomorrow to talk about the impact of inviting teachers to learn about the histories of educational activism!
Getting ready for #AERA2025? Check out this session, where my dream team of collaborators share the work we've been doing connecting the history of movements for educational justice & teacher learning. @thejosevilson.com @[email protected] @allysoncompton.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Honored to be in thought partnership with these incredible scholars! Come join us at #AERA25 tomorrow to talk about the impact of inviting teachers to learn about the histories of educational activism!
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Getting ready for #AERA2025? Check out this session, where my dream team of collaborators share the work we've been doing connecting the history of movements for educational justice & teacher learning. @thejosevilson.com @[email protected] @allysoncompton.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Getting ready for #AERA2025? Check out this session, where my dream team of collaborators share the work we've been doing connecting the history of movements for educational justice & teacher learning. @thejosevilson.com @[email protected] @allysoncompton.bsky.social
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Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
April 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...
He taught bell to bell. Proud that @booker.senate.gov is my senator. “This is a moral moment. It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong. Let's get in good trouble.”
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
He taught bell to bell. Proud that @booker.senate.gov is my senator. “This is a moral moment. It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong. Let's get in good trouble.”
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I’ve been fixated on how these Trump moves at Columbia can domino over to k-12. Some words from me about that here in coverage of today’s faculty protest.
Fallout from Columbia capitulation fuels fears about academic freedom
The outcry comes after an announcement on Friday that Columbia will institute new rules on student protests and discipline and bring in new campus police officers with arrest powers.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I’ve been fixated on how these Trump moves at Columbia can domino over to k-12. Some words from me about that here in coverage of today’s faculty protest.
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
🧵
March 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
🧵
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
🧵
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Great update for that story I shared the other day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsn3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsn3...
Students stand in solidarity with teacher told to remove "Everyone is Welcome Here" poster
YouTube video by KTVB
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Great update for that story I shared the other day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsn3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsn3...
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Powerful.
@algreen.house.gov: "There are times when it is better to stand alone, than not stand at all.
This president is disrupting the healthcare system. He is all but defying court orders. At some point, we're all going to have to stand up."
@algreen.house.gov: "There are times when it is better to stand alone, than not stand at all.
This president is disrupting the healthcare system. He is all but defying court orders. At some point, we're all going to have to stand up."
March 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Powerful.
@algreen.house.gov: "There are times when it is better to stand alone, than not stand at all.
This president is disrupting the healthcare system. He is all but defying court orders. At some point, we're all going to have to stand up."
@algreen.house.gov: "There are times when it is better to stand alone, than not stand at all.
This president is disrupting the healthcare system. He is all but defying court orders. At some point, we're all going to have to stand up."
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If you work at or attend a college or university, share this w/the General Counsel’s office. Tell them stop obeying in advance.
The @legaldefensefund.bsky.social has this important analysis of the Trump Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter to higher ed leaders.
www.naacpldf.org/education-de...
The @legaldefensefund.bsky.social has this important analysis of the Trump Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter to higher ed leaders.
www.naacpldf.org/education-de...
Setting the Record Straight: The U.S. Department of Education’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter”
Setting the Record StraightThe U.S. Department of Education’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter”What Schools, Parents and Students Need to KnowOn February 14,
www.naacpldf.org
March 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you work at or attend a college or university, share this w/the General Counsel’s office. Tell them stop obeying in advance.
The @legaldefensefund.bsky.social has this important analysis of the Trump Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter to higher ed leaders.
www.naacpldf.org/education-de...
The @legaldefensefund.bsky.social has this important analysis of the Trump Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter to higher ed leaders.
www.naacpldf.org/education-de...
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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If you're feeling overwhelmed, it's intentional. They're calling it "flooding the zone." The intent is to overwhelm and exhaust us so we can not effectively resist. Something simple you can do right now now is to make sure to take breaks and rest.
January 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If you're feeling overwhelmed, it's intentional. They're calling it "flooding the zone." The intent is to overwhelm and exhaust us so we can not effectively resist. Something simple you can do right now now is to make sure to take breaks and rest.
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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Hundreds of Wisconsin high school students walked out of class & into the Capitol, demanding better mental health resources & an end to gun violence. These brave teens perfectly exemplify civil nonviolent resistance. Let them inspire you as unified, repeated resistance creates meaningful change.
December 21, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Hundreds of Wisconsin high school students walked out of class & into the Capitol, demanding better mental health resources & an end to gun violence. These brave teens perfectly exemplify civil nonviolent resistance. Let them inspire you as unified, repeated resistance creates meaningful change.
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I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
December 10, 2024 at 3:47 AM
I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
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This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
![I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.
And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bb6m3nt3ohlter5c35zjlt6z/bafkreibs7rspksh3k7ekvnnmxzeenwwuvr4ab6fs4usuckmu2zpdzq3hcq@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...
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It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan.
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.
December 9, 2024 at 5:17 PM
It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan.
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.
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Libraries matter more than ever now! They embody a beautiful & brilliant idea that we must never stop defending. The idea that knowledge is free & belongs to EVERYONE. We all need to support our libraries & librarians - especially when people seek to ban books & free thinking. #libraries #books
December 4, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Libraries matter more than ever now! They embody a beautiful & brilliant idea that we must never stop defending. The idea that knowledge is free & belongs to EVERYONE. We all need to support our libraries & librarians - especially when people seek to ban books & free thinking. #libraries #books
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Elevating this for my people.
A lot of educators have asked me for resources related to our newly arrived students and families and this falls in line.
Good morning!
A lot of educators have asked me for resources related to our newly arrived students and families and this falls in line.
Good morning!
Educators: if you need strategies to support your immigrant/refugee students, this book is a good place to start
Link: www.tcpress.com/humanizing-e...
[If this is a financial hardship & you work with newcomer youth, reach out & we will find a way to get you a book] @lesleybartlett.bsky.social
Link: www.tcpress.com/humanizing-e...
[If this is a financial hardship & you work with newcomer youth, reach out & we will find a way to get you a book] @lesleybartlett.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Elevating this for my people.
A lot of educators have asked me for resources related to our newly arrived students and families and this falls in line.
Good morning!
A lot of educators have asked me for resources related to our newly arrived students and families and this falls in line.
Good morning!
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Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵
November 28, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵