Kerry H Alexander

Fresh off the press in NCTE’s Language Arts! "Producing beyond the Binaries: Playful Languaging in Kindergarten Classrooms.” This piece celebrates and learns alongside the "unruly" meaning-making of young children: mittens, cats, bunnies, farts, marshmallow feet, and more 🐱

This morning’s #NCTE2025: Ran from a showing of The Librarians with @maggietokudahall.bsky.social to hear from @ncte.org‘s Intellectual Freedom Fellow, Ricki Ginsberg, asks colleagues talk about the data from 4000+ surveys of ELA teachers how they experience censorship.

Good morning, #NCTE25! This is the morning where you can meet 2 of the most amazing 5th graders around (including 1 who is related to me -- no bias 😉). Please come by our 8:15 am session "A Future We Can Dream Boldly About: Creating Shared Futures with and for Asian American Children" CCC Rm. 703

A6: Envisioning #literacies! "Relational witnessing" as pedagogy: the attunement to a child's meaning-making; methodologies that can bring the child's process, embodied labors, and materiality into the same frame... how we go back to the children.

A3: What's fun are the random #literacies "lobby time" gatherings at various conferences... talking out manuscripts fueled by laughter and big ideas (and coffee)

A2: Tbh, every single #literacies chat impacts my thinking. It's hard for me to be timely, concise, and deep with limited characters. However! There was one about relational (and maybe play-based?) literacies that felt especially generative. If I'm still replying days later... that's a good thing.

A1: I originally joined the #literacies chat on Twitter as a grad student at UT Austin. It's been great to "meet" like-minded folks, build thinking together, and learn with scholars I admire.

Jane has always been an inspiration to me—unwavering in her scholarly discernment, relational ethics, and advocacy. May she rest in peace. 💗

Our libraries and library professionals are keystones of our communities fostering minds and offering services to individuals regardless of background. We must lift them up, especially this National Library Week, and demand that Trump and DOGE do not gut support for these vital institutions.

Without a strong Department of Education, kids from working class families will be left behind, unable to access the education they need to succeed. We stand with our affiliated unions as they fight this illegal order.

I’ve completed a million billion article reviews in the last few weeks. because: #reciprocal #peerreview juju. 🗣️ If you *want* reviews, *be* a reviewer.

Check out our latest Inquiring Minds Podcast Episode! It’s all about poetry and literacies, and we’ve got some amazing guests joining us. Drs. Stephanie Abrahams, Sarah Donovan, Victoria Gill, and Darius Phelps are all there to share their expertise ✨.

Join us for our upcoming March #literacies chat with Dr. @ankhithakurta.bsky.social!

"Controlled silence, dismissal of culturally responsive lesson planning, & behavioral contingencies for teaching & learning are not written into policy; however, the social powers they convey are disseminated through materiality & relationality every day." journals.sfu.ca/iccps/index....

Hey hey #literacies we’re trending again!

A2: slowness (!!), mediated activity, posthumanism (neohumanism, Braidotti), discursive materiality, (trans)languaging, play, early #literacies, and the relationships among & between. What knowledges are produc(ing).

A1: to me, #literacies (broadly) are relational, material constellations. Being/doings that include tools, bodies, structures, signs… moving with and alongside others.

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Is Literacy Everything Now? If so, Then What Is Literacy?

✨Reading teachers! ✨The UMD Reading Specialist program aligns with Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) certification and is approved by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation. Earn yourMaster of Education (M.Ed.) degree. ❤️🐢🖤 #EduSky #literacy #reading

@ncte.org will have a special issue volume coming out very soon (in typesetting now!) with an excellent piece by Ricki Ginsburg and colleagues on teachers navigating soft censorship.

#watercolor morning

We're so excited for our upcoming January #literacies chat with Dr. @draliceylee.bsky.social on Honoring Black Language in the Classroom.

Waking up to new moon, fresh sunshine, wide-open writing possibilities. Not bad #Monday.

On writing & research: "At such a time more conceptual creativity is necessary, & more theoretical courage is needed in order to bring about the leap across inertia, nostalgia, aporia & the other forms of critical stasis induced by our historical condition." -Braidotti, Writing as a Nomadic Subject

filling your Zotero with friends and colleagues 😎

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

Learning to write is an invitation to play with language. However, who is *allowed to play* with language (and with whose languaging) is not inclusive.

Bye #LRA2024; bye Atlanta. The conversation and tea were tops. Stay warm.

Resharing! @anna-phd.bsky.social This #literacies group is 😎👌 go.bsky.app/HZLhPr

So. Only three of us. lol #EduSky #LRA2024 ✍️🧡✨🐢✌️

Who's planning on going to #LRA2024 this year? #literacy #literacies #LRA #LiteracyResearch

I went to two today 👌

Sharing to save and read!

Sharing to save and read! ✨🧡✨

For all the literacy leaders and administrators out there, we at the Conference on English Leadership hope you’ll consider submitting a proposal for #CEL25: Abundance! Find the full Call at the top of the page linked below! #NCTE24 #CEL24 #NCTE25 bit.ly/CELConference

Thankful.

Also, apply to our UMD doctoral program! Pick #Literacy! Pick #Reading and #LanguageArts education.umd.edu/academics/de...

Literacy Research @lrtmp.bsky.social volume 73! Perfect for holiday reading 🤓 🦃 journals.sagepub.com/home/lrx?fbc...

I’m in-between projects, on the precipice of thanksgiving break, and my brain is skippy. how to address this “have i done enough” nervous system? #AcademicSky #FirstYearTenureTrack #writing #research #EduSky

Tomorrow’s #literacies chat with @nicole-mirra.bsky.social on “The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season” will take place at 5pm/8pm. Join us!

25% of kids in the US are Latinx, so here’s your Latinx KidLit starter pack and make sure to read, boost, and support Latinx stories all year long! go.bsky.app/CGXLiaz

Today #NCTE24 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM EST Standing for—Indeed, Fighting for—Teacher Professionalism and the Right to Teach Responsively Room 205 A radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/15/2...