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Associate Professor of Literacy 📚 Wife 💍 Dog Mom 🐶 Teacher 🏫 Reader 📖 Writer 💻 Yogi ☮️ Meditator🧘‍♀️ Traveler 🗺️ Scuba Diver 🤿 Camper 🏕️ Cheesehead 🧀 Currently Kansan 🌻Breast Cancer Thriver 🌷Endlessly Curious 🔎 Book Dragon 🐉
Call for Manuscripts - Literacy Legacies: Honoring Those Who Shaped Our Literacy Approaches

LC honors Dr. Marjorie Hancock & others who’ve shaped literacy paths. Reflect the people who inspired your literacy teaching & how their influence lives on.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is just so stark right now.
April 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Literacy Connections is looking for submissions! Articles, reflections, art, poetry, book reviews, fiction, original lesson plans. If it has to do with literacy, we want it!

LC is a peer-reviewed, open access journal focused on literacy is all its forms.

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April 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Liz Anstine is the keynote at #ATEK2025 KSUCollegeofEd Her title "Merging Connection with Competence: Teacher Preparation." Students need both.
April 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#ATEK2025 begins with @alanenglish9.bsky.social welcoming attendees and encouraged everyone to get more involved in the organization. At Kansas State University.
April 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
February 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Showing off my #BadgerPride at #KState commencement where I had the pleasure of hooding three doctoral students. #EdCats
December 15, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Lucia Cardenas, presented #lra24 "Translingualism and multiliteracy pedagogy: A sociocultural approach to language and literacy in the bilingual classroom" Great idea of blending the work of the New London Group and translanguaging. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 6, 2024 at 2:28 PM
David Dickinson reviews his corpus of work as a 2023 Reading Hall of Fame inducted. Play in early childhood is important & strong oral language in early childhood is predictive of later reading success. #lra24
December 5, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Patricia Anders inducts Marjorie Siegel into the Reading Hall of Fame at #lra24. Her book "Reading Counts: Expanding the Role of Reading in Mathematics Classrooms" (Teachers College Press) links literacy and math.
December 5, 2024 at 1:28 PM
David Bloome inducts Deborah Wells into the Reading Hall of Fame at #lra24. Her book, "Preschoolers as Authors" is an influential ethnography that recognizes young children as knowledgeable humans with stories to tell.
December 5, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Nell Duke is inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame at #lra24. Her work in early literacy has been groundbreaking.
December 5, 2024 at 1:03 PM
David Reinking inducts Peter Smagorinsky into the Reading Hall of Fame at #lra24. Peter's work was influential in my early years as a teacher.
December 5, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Cathy Compton Lilly was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame at #lra24. Well deserved and my dissertation advisor.
December 5, 2024 at 12:55 PM
So excited to be at #LRA24 The first time in 7 years . My brian is already Whirling. My heart is happy. And Atlanta is a great city for a conference. I'm looking for friendly collaborators so we can cause good trouble together. If you are here, and see me, say HI! #literacies
December 4, 2024 at 10:42 PM
November 26, 2024 at 2:04 PM
@aidenschmaiden.bsky.social speaks about the importance of books as windows and mirrors. We need to defend the books that help our children see themselves in stories. #alan24
November 26, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Since we've been hearing a lot about book bans at #alan24 #ncte24 please consider participating in my research study about educators' experiences with controversial or banned books #edusky
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November 26, 2024 at 1:30 PM
OMG @katemessner.bsky.social An awesome human and an inspiring author. Delighted to have met her. #alan24
November 26, 2024 at 1:17 AM
@katemessner.bsky.social reveals The Trouble with Heroes was inspired by her own hikes of the 46 peaks of the Adirondack Mountains. She wrote poems; morphing to voice of Finn, charged w/ hiking the 46 peaks cuzof his vandalism of a graveyard, w/ the vandalized dead women's dog. #alan24 #ncte24
November 25, 2024 at 11:53 PM
An inspirational ending of Day 1 of #ALAN24 with Randy Ribay's metaphor of the sequoia tree facts as related to letting them read.
November 25, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Ode to Ada Limón - what an amazing ending keynote for #NCTE24. Her phrase, "It is not so much that you don't have anything to say; it's that you have so much to say" hit deep and inspired this ode.
November 25, 2024 at 10:04 PM
They Thought They Buried Us
a book by NoNieqa Ramos ~ Recognizes teaching/writing is tough right now. We need to fight for diverse books to support those who need to see themselves; to open the eyes of those who need them the most. Build connections & coalitions to fight together. #alan24 #ncte24
November 25, 2024 at 5:30 PM
@geneluenyang.bsky.social and LeUyen Pham, who were born one day apart, shared their dating experiences to cowrite their book Lunar New Year Story. #alan24
November 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
@dhonielle.bsky.social keynote "The Kids Will Not Be Okay." We should be angry about the state of the world. It's tough to have hope. Many found safety and hope in books. We might not be ready for the fight to come. #alan24
November 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM