Scott Storm

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

Visionary educators at schools, universities, libraries, and nonprofit organizations across the country will be honored among thousands of colleagues at #NCTE26 after receiving prestigious 2026 NCTE Leadership Awards. Read the press release: https://bit.ly/4gVdBGF

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: Navigating Media & AI: Critical Principles and Pedagogies https://bit.ly/4iDU7HA Co-editors @karismjones.bsky.social & @scottstorm.bsky.social invite critical, nuanced exploration of principles and practices for planning for and using AI in ELA classrooms and related contexts.

Call for Manuscripts! Navigating Media & AI: Critical Principles and Pedagogies @karismjones.bsky.social and I are editing a new book on AI in English Language Arts. We invite critical nuanced explorations of teaching with AI in ELA! #literacies #ELA #literacy #NCTE More info: tinyurl.com/hjw7v2ke

Fandom Transformation Projects invite youth to create multimedia artifacts to move pop culture communities toward justice. Learn from @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social about using these projects in your own teaching context. Register for our Monday webinar: https://bit.ly/4vgAGYc

Seven of my incredible students, all of whom are student teaching, have an awesome article in ILA's Literacy Today magazine this month. Check out their reflections on disciplinary literacies and social justice. #literacies @ilatoday.bsky.social Read the full issue here: tinyurl.com/2nptpj3n

Check out this amazing article by doctoral candidate Tempestt Johnson about the literacy practices of majorette dancers in marching bands! See how majorette dance is disciplinary literacy and liberation. In ILA's Literacy Today magazine this month. #literacies @ilatoday.bsky.social

Meet the guest editor of the latest Literacy Today magazine issue: Scott Storm, assistant professor of literacy in the University at Albany School of Education! 🎓 In his opening address to readers, Scott shares his thoughts on shaping the direction of this issue: buff.ly/KmPYKHB

Excited to announce that the new issue of ILA's Literacy Today Magazine is out! Honored to share space with this amazing group of scholars writing about expanding disciplinary literacies for social justice! #literacies tinyurl.com/2nptpj3n

Excited to share that @karismjones.bsky.social and I just had this fun article published about people doing playful literary analyses of the novel Dracula. Wait, a Gothic novel from 1897 can be humorous today? Yep. Some real shenanigans going on here! #literacies DM me for a copy if you need access.

Thrilled to share this new pub! In this article, my brilliant coauthors and I explore a framework for narrative activity in a variety of texts. It’s open access- please read, share, and tell me what you think! doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!

Interested to dive deeper into fandoms in the classroom? Check out @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book! #literacies

A6: If you’re at #NCTE2025, join us to experience some of these ideas live! 💡(we will sign your book!) @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST   Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B

A6: I’m thinking about what it would look like to bring pre-service teachers to fandom-focused literacy classrooms. College and high school students collaboratively investigating, analyzing, and writing about fandoms together could be a next frontier to explore! #literacies

A5: Classrooms can easily feel like “doing school” with a focus on compliance. Instead, support students to follow their intellectual passions! Give choice about what texts to read, work to produce, and questions to pursue. I’ve seen this work in diverse and inclusive public schools! #literacies

A4: This shift creates a more student-centered community. Instead of teachers spending time preparing lectures and worksheets, they facilitate a community where students use literacy to pursue intellectual interests, analyze a wide range of texts, and construct new knowledge together. #literacies

A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies

A2: I’m a Dungeons & Dragons fan, but I wasn’t one until my high school students taught me how to play! I got to see how D&D can be used to imagine socially just worlds free from hate. My students helped show me the power of words and story to work to change the fabric of our realities. #literacies

A1: Inspired by many scholars! @amystorn.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @ebonyteach.blacksky.app @anna-phd.bsky.social @dlowliteracy.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social @aleciamarie.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @alexcorbitt.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social Many more! #literacies

Greetings Literacies Chat! I’m Scott Storm (he/him). I taught high school English for 15 years in urban public schools—including one I helped to found! I’m now an assistant professor of literacy in the School of Education at the University at Albany, SUNY. All opinions my own. #literacies

#literacies chat starting now! So excited!

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

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....

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)!

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

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

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!

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!

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

Our middle level arts-based activism session at NCTE! Shoutout to Reka Barton, Casey Pennington, and Sarah Bonner for facilitating!! #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

**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!

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

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

It’s conference season for #literacies folks!! If you are going to #NCTE get in touch and let’s hang out! I’m giving a few fun talks with brilliant, generous, and kind teacher-scholars! Come check it out. #NCTE24