Nicholas A. Emmanuele (he/him/his)
@naemmanuele.bsky.social
ELA Teacher & Department Chair in Erie, PA | Chair, Conference on English Leadership | President, LitAGE | Adjunct Lecturer, Gannon University | PhD Student, disability and reader identities, University at Buffalo | 🏳️🌈 | he/him/his
Tonight, @tienpham.bsky.social and I saw The Hunger Games On Stage in London. It was phenomenal—the opening night/days critiques must have all been addressed because we had a glorious night in the theatre! #HungerGames
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Tonight, @tienpham.bsky.social and I saw The Hunger Games On Stage in London. It was phenomenal—the opening night/days critiques must have all been addressed because we had a glorious night in the theatre! #HungerGames
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#CELchat #NCTE25
Join our next virtual social hour to connect with other literacy leaders and learn together! Open to all #NCTE members. Hope to see you this Tuesday at 7 pm ET!
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#CELchat #NCTE25
October 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Are you a literacy leader looking for community and professional learning?
Join our next virtual social hour to connect with other literacy leaders and learn together! Open to all #NCTE members. Hope to see you this Tuesday at 7 pm ET!
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#CELchat #NCTE25
Join our next virtual social hour to connect with other literacy leaders and learn together! Open to all #NCTE members. Hope to see you this Tuesday at 7 pm ET!
bit.ly/CELVirtual
#CELchat #NCTE25
In my 1st semester of college (2003!), I had to present in my Introduction to Philosophy course. I was responsible for introducing the class to Socrates.
Being an education major and theatre kid... I opened by singing (a cappella) Socrates's lines that begin "The Tower of Babble" from GODSPELL.
Being an education major and theatre kid... I opened by singing (a cappella) Socrates's lines that begin "The Tower of Babble" from GODSPELL.
October 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In my 1st semester of college (2003!), I had to present in my Introduction to Philosophy course. I was responsible for introducing the class to Socrates.
Being an education major and theatre kid... I opened by singing (a cappella) Socrates's lines that begin "The Tower of Babble" from GODSPELL.
Being an education major and theatre kid... I opened by singing (a cappella) Socrates's lines that begin "The Tower of Babble" from GODSPELL.
This handy graphic from the CDC provides a helpful acronym to be an ALLY for people with disabilities.
www.cdc.gov/disability-i...
www.cdc.gov/disability-i...
October 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This handy graphic from the CDC provides a helpful acronym to be an ALLY for people with disabilities.
www.cdc.gov/disability-i...
www.cdc.gov/disability-i...
After reading Of Mice and Men with our tenth graders, we looked at how disability and othering is portrayed in two films: Simon Birch and Peanut Butter Falcon. #PairedTexts
September 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
After reading Of Mice and Men with our tenth graders, we looked at how disability and othering is portrayed in two films: Simon Birch and Peanut Butter Falcon. #PairedTexts
#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm.
bit.ly/CELVirtual
I was able to talk with Dennis Shepard (Matthew Shepard’s father) tonight. He had Zoomed with our high school cast of The Laramie Project this past January, but meeting him in person was a joy. A true dad.
The Shepards & others have made progress in equity: we all must work to keep and grow it.
The Shepards & others have made progress in equity: we all must work to keep and grow it.
September 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I was able to talk with Dennis Shepard (Matthew Shepard’s father) tonight. He had Zoomed with our high school cast of The Laramie Project this past January, but meeting him in person was a joy. A true dad.
The Shepards & others have made progress in equity: we all must work to keep and grow it.
The Shepards & others have made progress in equity: we all must work to keep and grow it.
Intense Thursday as my Drama class finished viewing A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and my 10th graders on ELA finished reading OF MICE & MEN aloud.
It was a classical kick-off to a year, and we’ll be exploring contemporary pieces next.
It was a classical kick-off to a year, and we’ll be exploring contemporary pieces next.
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Intense Thursday as my Drama class finished viewing A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and my 10th graders on ELA finished reading OF MICE & MEN aloud.
It was a classical kick-off to a year, and we’ll be exploring contemporary pieces next.
It was a classical kick-off to a year, and we’ll be exploring contemporary pieces next.
School’s back in session and sickness abounds. Just got my flu and #COVID vaccines. #health #BackToSchool
September 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
School’s back in session and sickness abounds. Just got my flu and #COVID vaccines. #health #BackToSchool
I noticed that my nails may make it easier for students to follow along as we read!
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I noticed that my nails may make it easier for students to follow along as we read!
In our pre-service secondary methods class, we dove into UDL (and its intersection with equity and social justice). Students discussed the reading and then identified and added UDL elements from their first mini-lesson they presented the other week in class.
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
In our pre-service secondary methods class, we dove into UDL (and its intersection with equity and social justice). Students discussed the reading and then identified and added UDL elements from their first mini-lesson they presented the other week in class.
We’re starting the year looking at our storytelling influences. What has inspired us and what has shaped our idea of Story? Students wrote past influences, shared them on large paper, and are working in Canva to share their inspirations. We’ll build on them with our readings this year!
September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We’re starting the year looking at our storytelling influences. What has inspired us and what has shaped our idea of Story? Students wrote past influences, shared them on large paper, and are working in Canva to share their inspirations. We’ll build on them with our readings this year!
I stopped in our local Ollie’s, and look what I found: both of @runwithskizzers.bsky.social’s #Marvel Avengers Assembly books! I hadn’t picked these up yet, but I did today!
August 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I stopped in our local Ollie’s, and look what I found: both of @runwithskizzers.bsky.social’s #Marvel Avengers Assembly books! I hadn’t picked these up yet, but I did today!
It’s that time of the school year where I get to catalogue our new supply and book purchases to get them out to my ELA colleagues. I’m grateful for a district that is able to budget finances for supplies. #leadELA #BackToSchool
August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It’s that time of the school year where I get to catalogue our new supply and book purchases to get them out to my ELA colleagues. I’m grateful for a district that is able to budget finances for supplies. #leadELA #BackToSchool
It’s #BackToSchool! Tonight was the first class of my undergraduate Methods and Materials for Secondary Students course at Gannon University. The School of Education made a fun balloon arch and students from all majors posed under it throughout the day! Welcome back, everyone!
August 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It’s #BackToSchool! Tonight was the first class of my undergraduate Methods and Materials for Secondary Students course at Gannon University. The School of Education made a fun balloon arch and students from all majors posed under it throughout the day! Welcome back, everyone!
Getting some summer reading done at the beach before the start of the school year. I’m slightly ahead of #TarValonOrBust ‘s current episode of The Crystal Cave.
August 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Getting some summer reading done at the beach before the start of the school year. I’m slightly ahead of #TarValonOrBust ‘s current episode of The Crystal Cave.
This season’s MABETH is bold, cinematic, and luxurious @stratfest.bsky.social. The technology, effects, and set are enthralling, and an older Macbeth absolutely worked for me. #SFMacbeth
August 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This season’s MABETH is bold, cinematic, and luxurious @stratfest.bsky.social. The technology, effects, and set are enthralling, and an older Macbeth absolutely worked for me. #SFMacbeth
I adored the visceral and cerebral production of THE ART OF WAR @stratfest.bsky.social. What is art? How is it shaped by the artist? Who gets to interpret it? This 5-person piece is moving and impactful. I had not known that Canada commissioned artists during WWII.
#SFArtOfWar
#SFArtOfWar
August 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I adored the visceral and cerebral production of THE ART OF WAR @stratfest.bsky.social. What is art? How is it shaped by the artist? Who gets to interpret it? This 5-person piece is moving and impactful. I had not known that Canada commissioned artists during WWII.
#SFArtOfWar
#SFArtOfWar
We viewed our 1st Shakespeare show today on our trip to @stratfest.bsky.social: #SFWintersTale. Powerful performances with the focus on this season’s “forgiveness” theme. Beautiful costumes; compelling performances!
I abridged the play 15 years ago and remembered more than I anticipated!
I abridged the play 15 years ago and remembered more than I anticipated!
August 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We viewed our 1st Shakespeare show today on our trip to @stratfest.bsky.social: #SFWintersTale. Powerful performances with the focus on this season’s “forgiveness” theme. Beautiful costumes; compelling performances!
I abridged the play 15 years ago and remembered more than I anticipated!
I abridged the play 15 years ago and remembered more than I anticipated!
We had a fun time @stratfest.bsky.social seeing DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS! This morning, I joined a Song & Dance workshop where w learned some music and choreography—it’s been at least a decade since I did a musical! What a delightful time!
#SFScoundrels
#SFScoundrels
August 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We had a fun time @stratfest.bsky.social seeing DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS! This morning, I joined a Song & Dance workshop where w learned some music and choreography—it’s been at least a decade since I did a musical! What a delightful time!
#SFScoundrels
#SFScoundrels
Erin Shields’s RANSACKING TROY @stratfest.bsky.social is brimming with mythology of the Iliad, Odyssey, & Greek tragedies. Threads, constellations, forgiveness, power, gender, adventure… there is so much happening that the 9-women cast propel the audience through! #SFTroy
August 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Erin Shields’s RANSACKING TROY @stratfest.bsky.social is brimming with mythology of the Iliad, Odyssey, & Greek tragedies. Threads, constellations, forgiveness, power, gender, adventure… there is so much happening that the 9-women cast propel the audience through! #SFTroy
We saw #SFForgiveness @stratfest.bsky.social: a moving, important work of theatre about the Japanese-Canadian internment in WWII, based off Sakamoto’s memoir FORGIVENESS.
Director @staffordarima.bsky.social also helmed @georgetakei.bsky.social’s ALLEGIANCE.
Phenomenal, moving performances.
Director @staffordarima.bsky.social also helmed @georgetakei.bsky.social’s ALLEGIANCE.
Phenomenal, moving performances.
August 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We saw #SFForgiveness @stratfest.bsky.social: a moving, important work of theatre about the Japanese-Canadian internment in WWII, based off Sakamoto’s memoir FORGIVENESS.
Director @staffordarima.bsky.social also helmed @georgetakei.bsky.social’s ALLEGIANCE.
Phenomenal, moving performances.
Director @staffordarima.bsky.social also helmed @georgetakei.bsky.social’s ALLEGIANCE.
Phenomenal, moving performances.
We have some time yet until @ncte.org's #NCTE25, but the Conference on English Leadership is offering two sessions for administrators, supervisors, department chairs, state leads, and all literacy/ELA leaders!
Join our roundtables or social hour to reconnect or see what CEL has to offer!
#CEL25
Join our roundtables or social hour to reconnect or see what CEL has to offer!
#CEL25
August 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#CEL25 will be ABUNDANT! Our speakers feature Sarah M Zerwin (author of POINT-LESS @heinemannpub.bsky.social), members of Lighthouse Writers in Denver, and 24 session options!
Bit.ly/CELConference
Bit.ly/CELConference
August 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#CEL25 will be ABUNDANT! Our speakers feature Sarah M Zerwin (author of POINT-LESS @heinemannpub.bsky.social), members of Lighthouse Writers in Denver, and 24 session options!
Bit.ly/CELConference
Bit.ly/CELConference
I am excited to announce the Conference on English Leadership’s Fall 2025 virtual social hours, open to all @ncte.org members. If you are an ELA department chair, supervisor, or literacy leader, join us for some casual connections & troubleshooting.
Join us!
#CEL25 #NCTE25
Bit.ly/CELVirtual
Join us!
#CEL25 #NCTE25
Bit.ly/CELVirtual
July 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I am excited to announce the Conference on English Leadership’s Fall 2025 virtual social hours, open to all @ncte.org members. If you are an ELA department chair, supervisor, or literacy leader, join us for some casual connections & troubleshooting.
Join us!
#CEL25 #NCTE25
Bit.ly/CELVirtual
Join us!
#CEL25 #NCTE25
Bit.ly/CELVirtual