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Nicole R. Misra she/her
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PhD student; education, racial literacy, translanguaging, racioliguistics. | Grad student board for Writing & Literacies SIG
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Nicole R. Misra she/her @nicolermisra.bsky.social · Jan 6
You can find my recent article in @jolleuga.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/Misra2024

I hope you can see in the citations the love and respect I have for the many scholars who have shaped my development of racial literacy and pedagogical practices. 💖 #literacies #RacialLiteracies #RacialLiteracy
This is an image of my 2024 article "Using Self-Reflection to Improve Racial Literacy: One White ELL Teacher's Journey" in the Journal of Language and Literacy Education. The abstract reads: White teachers often use language that continues to position racialized students and their languages as inferior, thus perpetuating racial and linguistic inequality in society. The purpose of this study was an interrogation of racial literacies within my teaching discourse as a white English Language Learner teacher. Using racial literacies as theoretical framework, this study was conducted in a St. Louis central city school district within a secondary United States Government class for English for Speakers of Other Languages students. A qualitative longitudinal self-reflective design was utilized employing two sources of data, classroom narrative data and written reflective memos. Discursive strategies of racial literacies were identified in the narrative data while reflective memos were used to contextualize the findings. These data sources were triangulated. Findings revealed, while I rejected Anti-Black Linguistic Racism with students through the teaching the history of Black English, my classroom discourse still reified linguistic hierarchies. I had positioned myself as someone becoming bilingual to situate multilingualism as an asset; however, I did not acknowledge the difference between my language learning as a white female and how my Black and Latinx students’ bilingualism was racialized by others. This empirical method is an effective way teacher-scholars can reflect upon their biases embedded within their discourse and actions. Because teachers can improve their racial literacy practices, this approach provides teachers opportunities for growth as they strive towards actions that support anti-racism and linguistic justice. Key Words: racial literacies, Racial Literacy Development Model, discursive strategies, teacher-scholar, self-reflective research
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#Literacies conference thread! Who will we see this year at #NCTE25 and #LRA25?
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Week of Native American Heritage Month book suggestions! #IndigenousLit #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Alt Text 1: This slide reads Native American Heritage Month Book Suggestions Alt text: This slide features the book There There written by Tommy Orange. My comment reads: “Orange deftly weaves multiple stories of younger and older Native people together as they all converge on the Big Oakland Powwow” Alt text: This slide features the book Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge written by Deidre Havrelock and Edward Kay
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I am so excited to be a part of organizing this event! #RJME #RacialJustice #MultilingualEducation
💙 Webinar Announcement: Racial Justice in Multilingual Education Research 💙 The BER SIG Webinar Working Group and the SLR SIG are excited to co-sponsor an upcoming webinar highlighting the work of scholars committed to advancing racial justice in multilingual education. Facilitated by co-editors of the journal Racial Justice in Multilingual Education, this panel will explore the impact and significance of their scholarship while discussing the challenges and opportunities of pursuing racial justice within today’s U.S. political and educational landscape. Invited panelists: Dr. Gladys Aponte Dr. Yalda Kaveh Hosna Jabameli Dr. Mike Mena Vianey Rangel Dr. Colette Yellow Robe A live Q&A session will follow, offering attendees the opportunity to engage directly with the panelists. Date: Tuesday, November 18 Time: 11-12:30 PST, 1–2:30 CT / 2–3:30 EST. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAw7N_3b. Join us for this important conversation on equity, language, and justice in education!
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I love working with you all! 🤩 #literacies community, are you excited to see some of your suggestions come to life?
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 3d
Our team met this morning to discuss and plan ways we can move forward the ideas from the #Literacies homecoming chat. We've got some exciting things in the works! @clarabbott.bsky.social @lexikwoodward.bsky.social @nicolermisra.bsky.social @carolinebr.bsky.social @kpsinedu.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Super happy to see the @lrtmp.bsky.social Volume 74 go live online right now. Let's go! Check out the editors' volume introduction below and share today! #literacies
lrtmp.bsky.social Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice @lrtmp.bsky.social · 5d
📢 Publication Alert!

Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr...

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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Join us in just TWO WEEKS for the November #literacies chat with @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
nicolermisra.bsky.social
Happy Native American Heritage Month! I'll be posting books written or illustrated by and about Indigenous people across the Americas this month. #IndigenousLit #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Slide reads: Native American Heritage Month Book Suggestions Alt text: This slide features the book Indian No More written by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell. My comment reads: “Do you know about tribal termination during the 1950s? Read about an Umpqua family after the U.S. government terminates their tribal recognition.” Alt text: This slide features the book Crossing Bok Chitto written by Tim Tingle and illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. My comment reads: “A Choctaw girl helps an enslaved family emancipate themselves”
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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#abbottelementary did anyone else try to Google Ava's website to see if they made one? My partner and I picked up our phones at the same time
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Sorry to miss the #literacies homecoming. Great to see so many new scholars in the conversations! Help me spread the word: we are recruiting doc students for our new Literacy and Eng Ed PhD program that we launched this year. Please reach out with ?s. Affiliated faculty and funding detailed below.
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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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
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 13d
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
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maggiebryant.bsky.social
I am 100% on board! Reading & thinking in community is what I miss most about being in coursework 🤓 #literacies
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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esp-phd.bsky.social
Beyond grateful for the opportunity to reconnect (and learn Bluesky). Thanks to all who attended and I can't wait for futrue collaborations. #literacies
anna-phd.bsky.social Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 13d
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 1:17 PM
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#literacies chat homecoming attendees, one more thing before you go: Check out this #literacies Starter Pack and let me know if you aren’t on there and want to be! (And feel free to find more connections while you’re in there.)

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anna-phd.bsky.social Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · Nov 12
About 15 years ago we started the #literacies chat over on the bird app. It provided so many meaningful conversations & connections over the years. This includes some of those people & others in the field. Let me know who else I can add (and follow!) as we work to rebuild here! go.bsky.app/HZLhPr
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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anna-phd.bsky.social
Whew, still thinking about the #literacies chat homecoming. What a joy to reconnect! And wow, @esp-phd.bsky.social, we had no idea in 2012 what our little chat idea would become, did we? Thank you for everyone who joined us through the years. Okay, cue the tears again…
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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mraleosays.bsky.social
I think this is a sentiment shared by many! So much so that @carolinebr.bsky.social invited @deewellington1.bsky.social and I to write a whole paper about all the connections and opportunities hosting #literacies chats provided for us.

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ERIC - EJ1448943 - More Knowledgeable Other(s): Sensemaking and Networking in Digital Ad-Hocracies, Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2024
Vygotsky's (1934; 1980) sociocultural theories of learning posit that learning is a socially negotiated activity. Learners can sustain this activity, and specifically how they engage in literacy pract...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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mandiedunn.bsky.social
I think it would be good! 8 PM is also a hard time for me as a parent. No time is great for everyone. Slow chat opens up asynchronous participation. #literacies
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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anna-phd.bsky.social
Is the #literacies chat hour over? It went by so fast! Thank you to everyone who came out to #literacies Homecoming. Expect my posts to keep coming as I revisit what I missed. And let's keep collaborating & building collective responses to the now that move us toward the futures envisioned tonight!
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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karismjones.bsky.social
If we know anything, we know how to have a good time at a #literacies chat 🥳 @scottstorm.bsky.social !! Mark your calendars
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 13d
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 1:10 AM
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wargojon.bsky.social
A5: Would love to see a #literacies chat that takes up (and returns us to) the topic of critical #literacies! How do we understand its communicative capacity to respond to this moment, its utility in naming injustice, and its promise in building more just social futures!
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 13d
Q5: What opportunities do you hope to see from #literacies chats moving forward? (Got a chat topic suggestion for us?)
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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profhsieh.bsky.social
Yes! Love this! Or, what #literacies questions have been living rent free in your head? 😂🤣
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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deroomat.bsky.social
A6: a future that continues to embrace the role of #literacies in bringing hope and connection—-to thwart the powers that be which seek fear and isolation and apathy
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 13d
Q6: What #literacies futures are you envisioning that we can work toward in the present?
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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languageartist.bsky.social
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.
writinglit.bsky.social AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 13d
Q6: What #literacies futures are you envisioning that we can work toward in the present?
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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writinglit.bsky.social
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 12:57 AM
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elpatronhimself.bsky.social
You don't need to sell me on the transnational! I think I'm one of the OGs in that conversation! #literacies
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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dlowliteracy.bsky.social
A6. Subversive, transgressive, fugitive, and joyful world-building #literacies
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM