Trevor Aleo
@mraleosays.bsky.social
teacher | scholar | ENG & EDU lecturer | literary, critical, & postdigital #literacies
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Trevor Aleo
@mraleosays.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Welcome to Becoming Literary!
Reimagining how we teach language, literature, and literacies one stack at a time
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Attention fellow English educators, scholars, and literary nerds! Interested in exploring ways we might reimagine how we teach language, literature, and #literacies? Check out my Substack newsletter and let’s learn together.
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Can't wait to be among friends at NCTE and NCTE_CEL next week!! @naemmanuele.bsky.social @hcodymiller.bsky.social @ncte.org
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Can't wait to be among friends at NCTE and NCTE_CEL next week!! @naemmanuele.bsky.social @hcodymiller.bsky.social @ncte.org
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
Beyond parody that their "declaration for teaching the best that's been thought & said" reads like it written by an AI trained on cardboard, tapioca, and 1980s infomercials for great books courses on VHS.
“Students should study the best that has been thought and said, engaging in the great conversation among the competing viewpoints that comprise our intellectual heritage, so that they freely make the best views their own.”
what are the odds a real person wrote this sentence do you think
what are the odds a real person wrote this sentence do you think
more people should know about this— www.heritage.org/phoenix-decl...
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Beyond parody that their "declaration for teaching the best that's been thought & said" reads like it written by an AI trained on cardboard, tapioca, and 1980s infomercials for great books courses on VHS.
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I’m on @llassabe.bsky.social’s wonderful podcast, American Campus, talking about University Keywords and how the book orients us towards shared study.
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University Keywords with Andy Hines
Podcast Episode · American Campus Podcast · 11/12/2025 · 47m
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November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I’m on @llassabe.bsky.social’s wonderful podcast, American Campus, talking about University Keywords and how the book orients us towards shared study.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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This amount would fund NEH for more than a decade.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This amount would fund NEH for more than a decade.
Levine’s “Forms” & now “The Activist Humanist” are compelling and this interview was fantastic. For English educators & teacher educators trying to transcend the (false) binary between teaching form & social justice, her work offers an entirely new/innovative approach to both.
"I don't think, as a leftist, I was ever going to be a person who would make a case for hierarchy. But I realized that I had been arguing for a really long time that equality is better than hierarchy. And what is that? That is a hierarchy."
The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine
We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Levine’s “Forms” & now “The Activist Humanist” are compelling and this interview was fantastic. For English educators & teacher educators trying to transcend the (false) binary between teaching form & social justice, her work offers an entirely new/innovative approach to both.
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This is such a “you can have both” situation (phonics instruction AND kids reading whole books in school), and the fact that it’s being pitched as either/or is equally mind-boggling and so depressingly predictable.
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
This is such a “you can have both” situation (phonics instruction AND kids reading whole books in school), and the fact that it’s being pitched as either/or is equally mind-boggling and so depressingly predictable.
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i like to play this game where i scroll through my zotero and go ‘boy, i read *that*? and that too??’
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
i like to play this game where i scroll through my zotero and go ‘boy, i read *that*? and that too??’
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There's a lot that Emily Hanford doesn't say in her reporting on SoR. Research on reading points to the complexity, nuance, contextuality, and diverse influences on becoming a successful reader. This is a great overview of a few of the issues with how journalists frame Science of Reading.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
There's a lot that Emily Hanford doesn't say in her reporting on SoR. Research on reading points to the complexity, nuance, contextuality, and diverse influences on becoming a successful reader. This is a great overview of a few of the issues with how journalists frame Science of Reading.
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I have thoughts toooooooo!!
A short 🧵
A short 🧵
There's a lot that Emily Hanford doesn't say in her reporting on SoR. Research on reading points to the complexity, nuance, contextuality, and diverse influences on becoming a successful reader. This is a great overview of a few of the issues with how journalists frame Science of Reading.
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I have thoughts toooooooo!!
A short 🧵
A short 🧵
My amazing, brilliant mutuals who are not literacy scholars—pleaaaasseee do not spread the moral panic about three-cueing v. phonics. The idea that this is what we should blame for our so-called literacy crisis is the product of a literal podcast & click-bait articles, not actual scholarship.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My amazing, brilliant mutuals who are not literacy scholars—pleaaaasseee do not spread the moral panic about three-cueing v. phonics. The idea that this is what we should blame for our so-called literacy crisis is the product of a literal podcast & click-bait articles, not actual scholarship.
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💯 This is the world that American public libraries, schools, universities, parks, health agencies, &, of course, NPR also live in.
The BBC’s core problem is that, like the NHS, it models the benefits and virtues of a not-for-profit public service in a world of rapacious corporate greed and unstinting right-wing hostility to the idea of the public good www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why the BBC Is Facing Its Gravest Crisis in Decades
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November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
💯 This is the world that American public libraries, schools, universities, parks, health agencies, &, of course, NPR also live in.
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The CSUN Writing Project is hosting a virtual book club discussion of my forthcoming book, Helping Students Become Climate Stewards (out in 5 days)! Register for the Zoom link: csun.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The CSUN Writing Project is hosting a virtual book club discussion of my forthcoming book, Helping Students Become Climate Stewards (out in 5 days)! Register for the Zoom link: csun.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. So on brand it hurts.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. So on brand it hurts.
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
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This episode, from 2023, is the second-most downloaded episode of this past week, with hundreds of people downloading it in just the last two days. I don’t know what spurred this surge in interest, but I love it when archival episodes suddenly pop.
BookTube, BookTok, Wattpad, & Audible Creation Exchange (Criticism LTD, Episode #10)
Visit the post for more.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This episode, from 2023, is the second-most downloaded episode of this past week, with hundreds of people downloading it in just the last two days. I don’t know what spurred this surge in interest, but I love it when archival episodes suddenly pop.
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Trying something new in the classroom can be a "best of times but also worst of times" experience—esp. if you want that "new" to be both good/sustainable
That's what I reflected on today: learnings from bringing a new strategy/system into the classroom
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That's what I reflected on today: learnings from bringing a new strategy/system into the classroom
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Bringing Something New Into the Classroom
my experience bringing literary theory into our classroom this year (so far!)
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November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Trying something new in the classroom can be a "best of times but also worst of times" experience—esp. if you want that "new" to be both good/sustainable
That's what I reflected on today: learnings from bringing a new strategy/system into the classroom
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/bringing-s...
That's what I reflected on today: learnings from bringing a new strategy/system into the classroom
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/bringing-s...
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@mattseybold.bsky.social I just read your new AV blog post about CUNY stepping in for public ed-tech. 1) Bold, love it; 2) Lina Khan, who is in the transition team, might be into it. Anyone we know has an in with her? Maybe @moacir.com who's doing digital librarian type work for the DSA...
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@mattseybold.bsky.social I just read your new AV blog post about CUNY stepping in for public ed-tech. 1) Bold, love it; 2) Lina Khan, who is in the transition team, might be into it. Anyone we know has an in with her? Maybe @moacir.com who's doing digital librarian type work for the DSA...
This book is fantastic for anyone teaching literature, but offers a significant additional benefit for many high school teachers: it will help them (re)discover and then trace the roots of close reading back to a particular (albeit expansive) tradition and intellectual community. (1/4) 🧵
I started following @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social 14 hours ago. I immediately purchased this ebook, and I’ve ordered a physical copy.
From the first section alone, I can tell this book will be consequential in teaching grades 9-16, my mentoring of new ELA teachers, and my work as a doctoral student.
From the first section alone, I can tell this book will be consequential in teaching grades 9-16, my mentoring of new ELA teachers, and my work as a doctoral student.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This book is fantastic for anyone teaching literature, but offers a significant additional benefit for many high school teachers: it will help them (re)discover and then trace the roots of close reading back to a particular (albeit expansive) tradition and intellectual community. (1/4) 🧵
Odd detail for me to get excited about, but as someone who’s spent A LOT of time thinking, writing, & designing PD about transfer, seeing this in Close Reading for the 21st Century was a treat. Inviting inductive reasoning across multiple examples is such a powerful & easy teaching move.
November 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Odd detail for me to get excited about, but as someone who’s spent A LOT of time thinking, writing, & designing PD about transfer, seeing this in Close Reading for the 21st Century was a treat. Inviting inductive reasoning across multiple examples is such a powerful & easy teaching move.
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Myers Education Press authors of "Fandoms in the Classroom" Karis Jones and Scott Storm are doing a #literacies chat in November. Visit www.aera.net/SIG137/Writi... for more info.
#curriculum #teaching #learning #teachereducation
#curriculum #teaching #learning #teachereducation
Join us in November for a #literacies chat hosted by Dr. Karis Jones and Dr. Scott Storm, authors of the recently published book Fandoms in the Classroom: A Social Justice Approach to Transforming Literacy Learning.
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Myers Education Press authors of "Fandoms in the Classroom" Karis Jones and Scott Storm are doing a #literacies chat in November. Visit www.aera.net/SIG137/Writi... for more info.
#curriculum #teaching #learning #teachereducation
#curriculum #teaching #learning #teachereducation
In addition to all the usual reasons to be upset by these layoffs, this is an additional layer for me. I used Teen Vogue to introduce some concepts, events, & trending topics because it was one of the few mainstream outlets that treated teens like serious people & not a marketing demographic.
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
In addition to all the usual reasons to be upset by these layoffs, this is an additional layer for me. I used Teen Vogue to introduce some concepts, events, & trending topics because it was one of the few mainstream outlets that treated teens like serious people & not a marketing demographic.
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Added this mind-boggling slide from Chris’s research to the episode homepage.
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Added this mind-boggling slide from Chris’s research to the episode homepage.