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
The thing is … people unfortunately and unforgivably do not care. I do not know why.
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The thing is … people unfortunately and unforgivably do not care. I do not know why.
I read Uniquely Human at your suggestion and liked it a lot!
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I read Uniquely Human at your suggestion and liked it a lot!
Hey #literacies friends. I am headed to #ncte25. Very excited to be back in Denver. During aera, I took an inexpensive Lyft to Red Rocks if you are looking for a few hours to clear your mind! Highly recommend.
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hey #literacies friends. I am headed to #ncte25. Very excited to be back in Denver. During aera, I took an inexpensive Lyft to Red Rocks if you are looking for a few hours to clear your mind! Highly recommend.
Yeah … no. They will not put up with certain things at all. Solidarity.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Yeah … no. They will not put up with certain things at all. Solidarity.
never fear! one day. :)
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
never fear! one day. :)
oh my gosh ... @kelseyfrancis.bsky.social are you going this year!?
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
oh my gosh ... @kelseyfrancis.bsky.social are you going this year!?
Reposted by Mandie Dunn
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!
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
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
I'm sure you of anyone can understand, but sometimes a focus on literacy teachers and their lives isn't seen as literacies ...
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I'm sure you of anyone can understand, but sometimes a focus on literacy teachers and their lives isn't seen as literacies ...
@deroomat.bsky.social we were friends anyway but I feel like our #literacies twitter chats spurred the Early Career Cohort we co-lead with NCTEAR. Strengthened our friendship and sparked the idea for how we wanted to serve the community.
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
@deroomat.bsky.social we were friends anyway but I feel like our #literacies twitter chats spurred the Early Career Cohort we co-lead with NCTEAR. Strengthened our friendship and sparked the idea for how we wanted to serve the community.
So much same! I still don't always feel like a #literacies scholar in the "right" way. Yet the online space was a way for me to get to know people's work in a deeper way and feel more included.
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So much same! I still don't always feel like a #literacies scholar in the "right" way. Yet the online space was a way for me to get to know people's work in a deeper way and feel more included.
On a nerdy level, I felt like asynchronous or synchronous online writing became a chain in a string of #literacies utterances, including in person interactions months late. Writing as social participation!
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
On a nerdy level, I felt like asynchronous or synchronous online writing became a chain in a string of #literacies utterances, including in person interactions months late. Writing as social participation!
I think #literacies chats was where I became familiar with you and your work, @profhsieh.bsky.social ! 💜
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I think #literacies chats was where I became familiar with you and your work, @profhsieh.bsky.social ! 💜
For sure! I missed most of the #literacies chat tonight and am catching up. A bunch of doctoral students from MSU were on them from 2015 ish on and I "met" so many scholars and learned about their work that way. Then I met them in person and it was easier to jump right in to conversations.
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
For sure! I missed most of the #literacies chat tonight and am catching up. A bunch of doctoral students from MSU were on them from 2015 ish on and I "met" so many scholars and learned about their work that way. Then I met them in person and it was easier to jump right in to conversations.
Thanks for caring and listening. :)
October 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Thanks for caring and listening. :)
Oh they are not helpful at all. I'm disgusted!! (but also I'm in education, so I try to be empathetic and know teachers are doing too much, spread too thin). But I'm stuck in a state where the support isn't going to be great and I'm also an academic so moving is .... really hard (and I've tried!!) 😔
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oh they are not helpful at all. I'm disgusted!! (but also I'm in education, so I try to be empathetic and know teachers are doing too much, spread too thin). But I'm stuck in a state where the support isn't going to be great and I'm also an academic so moving is .... really hard (and I've tried!!) 😔
Thank you! Yes, we have done social skills group consistently and recently got external support to go to school. I’m just drowning trying to navigate school and I don’t know when the drawbacks outweigh the benefits, tbh.
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Thank you! Yes, we have done social skills group consistently and recently got external support to go to school. I’m just drowning trying to navigate school and I don’t know when the drawbacks outweigh the benefits, tbh.
Why do we have so many resources on reaching a diagnosis but so little on how we can actually better support kiddos once they have the diagnosis?
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Why do we have so many resources on reaching a diagnosis but so little on how we can actually better support kiddos once they have the diagnosis?