Mandie Dunn
@mandiedunn.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ U of South Florida ☀️| studying how we can better sustain and support teachers during grief | former English teacher and current teacher educator | mandiebdunn.com| she/her
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Mandie Dunn
@mandiedunn.bsky.social
· Dec 12
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We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..."
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I have never been great at being crafty or creating an atmosphere as a host but suddenly my son (almost 8) wants to have a birthday party (1st time he has wanted one) with a space theme and I'm obsessed with plates that look like planets and astronaut balloons.
January 11, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I have never been great at being crafty or creating an atmosphere as a host but suddenly my son (almost 8) wants to have a birthday party (1st time he has wanted one) with a space theme and I'm obsessed with plates that look like planets and astronaut balloons.
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Despite the limitations of the term 'bereavement leave', I'm so pleased the #EmploymentRightsAct at the very end of 2025 means #pregnancy ending before 24-week viability for any reason now entitles people to leave from work. #pregnancyloss #miscarriage #abortion #TOPFA #TFMR
January 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Despite the limitations of the term 'bereavement leave', I'm so pleased the #EmploymentRightsAct at the very end of 2025 means #pregnancy ending before 24-week viability for any reason now entitles people to leave from work. #pregnancyloss #miscarriage #abortion #TOPFA #TFMR
Bereavement leave acknowledges someone’s loss of a baby. When only sick leave is accessible, we ignore the grief people experience. Glad to see some local change.
US | Pittsfield Teachers Get Bereavement Leave for Pregnancy Loss
www.iberkshires.com/story/81256/...
Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject
www.iberkshires.com/story/81256/...
Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject
Pittsfield Teachers Get Bereavement Leave for Pregnancy Loss
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Pittsfield Public Schools educators can now use bereavement pay for a loss of pregnancy or a stillborn child.
On Dec. 10, the School Committee approved a...
www.iberkshires.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Bereavement leave acknowledges someone’s loss of a baby. When only sick leave is accessible, we ignore the grief people experience. Glad to see some local change.
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JoLLE calls are still open for one more month! Submit your work today and add to the conversation. 🤝❤️🖤
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
JoLLE calls are still open for one more month! Submit your work today and add to the conversation. 🤝❤️🖤
We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We have to do a better job supporting teachers at work following a miscarriage. For more on the layered pressures they face, see this article in AERA Open, "The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers' Leave Decisions and Well-Being ..."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This semester has been 🗑️ at work and really stressful for me personally bc I am worried about my kid. But you know what? One thing that always makes me feel good is receiving and giving updates back and forth with teachers I've interviewed. No matter what the future holds, I'm so grateful for it. 🌻
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This semester has been 🗑️ at work and really stressful for me personally bc I am worried about my kid. But you know what? One thing that always makes me feel good is receiving and giving updates back and forth with teachers I've interviewed. No matter what the future holds, I'm so grateful for it. 🌻
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Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
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Workplaces have a role in dealing with pregnancy loss
Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor Keelin O’Donoghue
www.irishexaminer.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
Just starting to orient myself toward #NCTE25 and suddenly remembered how last year I got to sit about 10 feet from Ada Limon while she read poems to me. 🤓🌻
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just starting to orient myself toward #NCTE25 and suddenly remembered how last year I got to sit about 10 feet from Ada Limon while she read poems to me. 🤓🌻
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So much gratitude to the GSB Homecoming Planning Committee for inviting us back to guest host tonight. Let us know how else we can support the efforts chatted about tonight. As you could see, there’s lots of love for #literacies chat! We’re here to support the team!
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So much gratitude to the GSB Homecoming Planning Committee for inviting us back to guest host tonight. Let us know how else we can support the efforts chatted about tonight. As you could see, there’s lots of love for #literacies chat! We’re here to support the team!
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THANK YOU to Drs. @anna-phd.bsky.social , @esp-phd.bsky.social , and the entire #Literacies chat 'class of 2012' for creating this space built on community, connection, scholarship, practice, and all things #literacies !
Thank you to the @writinglit.bsky.social Grad Student Board for inviting @esp-phd.bsky.social and me back to guest host tonight's #literacies chat!
We hope you can join us tonight, Tuesday, October 28, 2025 5-6 PT | 7-8 CT | 8-9 ET!
We hope you can join us tonight, Tuesday, October 28, 2025 5-6 PT | 7-8 CT | 8-9 ET!
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
THANK YOU to Drs. @anna-phd.bsky.social , @esp-phd.bsky.social , and the entire #Literacies chat 'class of 2012' for creating this space built on community, connection, scholarship, practice, and all things #literacies !
Do any of my academic friends have suggestions for resources about supporting an autistic child in the first years of school? (hyper verbal, high IQ, serious obstacles in building social relationships). When I search I get a zillion resources about identifying autism... I want to know what to do!
October 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Do any of my academic friends have suggestions for resources about supporting an autistic child in the first years of school? (hyper verbal, high IQ, serious obstacles in building social relationships). When I search I get a zillion resources about identifying autism... I want to know what to do!
Hochschild is brilliant!! It’s a shame that so many people misuse concepts from her studies, which are fantastic and framed through the lens of labor. Her concepts are about WORK. She just so happened to include women’s uncompensated work in domestic spheres.
Arlie Hochschild figured out a lot of things people claim to just be discovering now.
October 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hochschild is brilliant!! It’s a shame that so many people misuse concepts from her studies, which are fantastic and framed through the lens of labor. Her concepts are about WORK. She just so happened to include women’s uncompensated work in domestic spheres.
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What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.
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Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional
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We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional
@deroomat.bsky.social @brownellcassie.bsky.social @mandiedunn.bsky.social @gemmasupernova.bsky.social @nicole-mirra.bsky.social
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I set ONE work boundary after 6 years of constantly being overly nice and accommodating. And I got email screamed at by a man who I have worked closely with for 6 years, for whom I have always been covering for when he needed it. #academia
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I set ONE work boundary after 6 years of constantly being overly nice and accommodating. And I got email screamed at by a man who I have worked closely with for 6 years, for whom I have always been covering for when he needed it. #academia
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🔵 FACULTY POSITION 🔵
U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)!
💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent)
📅 Start 9/2026
⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25
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U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)!
💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent)
📅 Start 9/2026
⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25
For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
#AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies
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College of Education: Professor (Open-Rank) – Secondary Literacy
Duties and Responsibilities
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September 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🔵 FACULTY POSITION 🔵
U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)!
💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent)
📅 Start 9/2026
⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25
For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
#AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies
Please boost! 🚀
U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)!
💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent)
📅 Start 9/2026
⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25
For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
#AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies
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Really important work.
What happens when a miscarriage is treated like a crime?
That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When miscarriages become crimes
412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.
www.motherjones.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Really important work.
This too.
Why push this connection? Because it's strategic to make autism seem preventable. If it's preventable, then responsibility for prevention falls to moms. And if that responsibility is moms', then society doesn't need to spend public resources supporting autistic people and their families.
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This too.
Look, I get everyone is really excited to post that they took Tylenol during pregnancy and YAY their child is completely healthy and definitely not autistic .... but some of us DO have autistic children so please stop.
September 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Look, I get everyone is really excited to post that they took Tylenol during pregnancy and YAY their child is completely healthy and definitely not autistic .... but some of us DO have autistic children so please stop.
Planning for next weeks' classes and looking back at last year's materials for one of them and ... it was when Hurricane Helene hit.
September 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Planning for next weeks' classes and looking back at last year's materials for one of them and ... it was when Hurricane Helene hit.
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Hey, that’s me, going to do a thing. Join me on 9/25!
To say that the world was a bit different when I offered to host the #literacies chat back in March is an understatement. But we’ve got to talk about how censorship impacts teaching and learning.
To say that the world was a bit different when I offered to host the #literacies chat back in March is an understatement. But we’ve got to talk about how censorship impacts teaching and learning.
September 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Hey, that’s me, going to do a thing. Join me on 9/25!
To say that the world was a bit different when I offered to host the #literacies chat back in March is an understatement. But we’ve got to talk about how censorship impacts teaching and learning.
To say that the world was a bit different when I offered to host the #literacies chat back in March is an understatement. But we’ve got to talk about how censorship impacts teaching and learning.
One thing I share with my students, who are learning to be teachers, is that young people in schools often encounter many teachers, all with different policies and personalities across a day. It may not be that they didn't read your policy. They may be trying to navigate nuances across classes.
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
One thing I share with my students, who are learning to be teachers, is that young people in schools often encounter many teachers, all with different policies and personalities across a day. It may not be that they didn't read your policy. They may be trying to navigate nuances across classes.
I want to move back to Michigan. Just putting it out into the universe. No I am not from there. I just like it.
September 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I want to move back to Michigan. Just putting it out into the universe. No I am not from there. I just like it.
Honestly it would be great if USF could upset Florida in football bc then maybe some more ppl would figure out it’s in Tampa and a major university. The name is misleading and I would like people to have some idea of where I live and work!
September 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Honestly it would be great if USF could upset Florida in football bc then maybe some more ppl would figure out it’s in Tampa and a major university. The name is misleading and I would like people to have some idea of where I live and work!