Dr. Betina Hsieh (she/her/ 她）
@profhsieh.bsky.social
She/her/她; Taiwanese American MotherScholar, Endowed Professor of Teacher Education/ Committed to thickening solidarities/ Research: Asian Americans in Education; Humanizing (Teacher) Education; Coast Salish Lands
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EduTalks 2025 | Dr. Betina Hsieh “Love at the Center of Transformation”
YouTube video by University of Washington College of Education
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My 5-minute EduTalk on "Love at the Center of Transformation" & the importance of humanizing practices in teaching and teacher education: youtu.be/zOSTuigbeJo?...
Starting soon! We’re far back in the Convention Center. Follow the KPop to Room 703!
Good morning, #NCTE25! This is the morning where you can meet 2 of the most amazing 5th graders around (including 1 who is related to me -- no bias 😉). Please come by our 8:15 am session "A Future We Can Dream Boldly About: Creating Shared Futures with and for Asian American Children" CCC Rm. 703
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Starting soon! We’re far back in the Convention Center. Follow the KPop to Room 703!
Good morning, #NCTE25! This is the morning where you can meet 2 of the most amazing 5th graders around (including 1 who is related to me -- no bias 😉). Please come by our 8:15 am session "A Future We Can Dream Boldly About: Creating Shared Futures with and for Asian American Children" CCC Rm. 703
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Good morning, #NCTE25! This is the morning where you can meet 2 of the most amazing 5th graders around (including 1 who is related to me -- no bias 😉). Please come by our 8:15 am session "A Future We Can Dream Boldly About: Creating Shared Futures with and for Asian American Children" CCC Rm. 703
Reposting #NCTE25 - Come see us!!! 💜💜💜
Good morning, #NCTE25! If you're looking for an 11am session, check out my session "Dreaming as a Universal Language: How to Encourage Bold Dreams through Multilingual Storytelling" w/ amazing author/illustrators, Lynnor Bontigao, Nicole Chen & Pat Tanumihardja! CCC Rm 501.
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposting #NCTE25 - Come see us!!! 💜💜💜
Good morning, #NCTE25! If you're looking for an 11am session, check out my session "Dreaming as a Universal Language: How to Encourage Bold Dreams through Multilingual Storytelling" w/ amazing author/illustrators, Lynnor Bontigao, Nicole Chen & Pat Tanumihardja! CCC Rm 501.
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Good morning, #NCTE25! If you're looking for an 11am session, check out my session "Dreaming as a Universal Language: How to Encourage Bold Dreams through Multilingual Storytelling" w/ amazing author/illustrators, Lynnor Bontigao, Nicole Chen & Pat Tanumihardja! CCC Rm 501.
On my way! Seeing scholastic bags & hearing people talk about conference presentations. Clearly I’m not the only one on this flight headed to #NCTE2025.
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
On my way! Seeing scholastic bags & hearing people talk about conference presentations. Clearly I’m not the only one on this flight headed to #NCTE2025.
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Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!
Hi Friends! If you'll be at #NCTE2025, come find me in one of these sessions. On Saturday morning, if you come to our session, you'll also get to see one of my favorite 10 year olds.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Hi Friends! If you'll be at #NCTE2025, come find me in one of these sessions. On Saturday morning, if you come to our session, you'll also get to see one of my favorite 10 year olds.
A6. I love this question too & have been missing so much community. So a #literacies grounded community feels like a beautiful future to live into. It’s been nice to see friends in the space, even if my engagement isn’t what it once was w/ mama duties 💜
Q6: What #literacies futures are you envisioning that we can work toward in the present?
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A6. I love this question too & have been missing so much community. So a #literacies grounded community feels like a beautiful future to live into. It’s been nice to see friends in the space, even if my engagement isn’t what it once was w/ mama duties 💜
A5.2 Oh and also opportunities for cross-generational #literacies chats, to support grad students & junior faculty! 💜
Q5: What opportunities do you hope to see from #literacies chats moving forward? (Got a chat topic suggestion for us?)
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A5.2 Oh and also opportunities for cross-generational #literacies chats, to support grad students & junior faculty! 💜
A5. I’d love to do some collective thinking around #literacies in community building, advocacy and supporting identity development (of course I would 😂) and I love the IDEA of a book club although #lowbandwidth 😅
Q5: What opportunities do you hope to see from #literacies chats moving forward? (Got a chat topic suggestion for us?)
October 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A5. I’d love to do some collective thinking around #literacies in community building, advocacy and supporting identity development (of course I would 😂) and I love the IDEA of a book club although #lowbandwidth 😅
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A2: Something I think #literacies chats do in conversation with thoughtful guest scholars is present asset based lenses for many types of learners - once you learn to see the deficit lenses here, it’s easier to spot them in research 🧐
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A2: Something I think #literacies chats do in conversation with thoughtful guest scholars is present asset based lenses for many types of learners - once you learn to see the deficit lenses here, it’s easier to spot them in research 🧐
What a great question! I really miss chatting in general & would love to figure out a way to work #literacies and other chats back into a part of my digital life. I don’t have a real answer but I think that low demand chat topics that can engage a broad audience are important.
Q4: A community now is more important than ever. What ideas do you have for ways we can support and build the #literacies community through this chat?
October 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What a great question! I really miss chatting in general & would love to figure out a way to work #literacies and other chats back into a part of my digital life. I don’t have a real answer but I think that low demand chat topics that can engage a broad audience are important.
A3. #Literacies has been such a professional home for me. Too many connections to count but grateful for them all. It feels like a gentle hug & reminder that I’m still a literacies scholar even when my work focuses beyond literacies.
Q3: The #literacies chat began in 2012 with a Derrick Bell quote, "However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation..." What connections have you made with others through the chat?
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A3. #Literacies has been such a professional home for me. Too many connections to count but grateful for them all. It feels like a gentle hug & reminder that I’m still a literacies scholar even when my work focuses beyond literacies.
A1. I can’t remember! 😅(I think that means I’m old, but def participated lots as a junior faculty member & have co-hosted. Love #literacies & virtual chats as spaces to connect and build community 💜
Q1: What originally brought you to the #literacies chats? Were you a graduate student? A teacher? A faculty member? Have you guest-hosted?
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A1. I can’t remember! 😅(I think that means I’m old, but def participated lots as a junior faculty member & have co-hosted. Love #literacies & virtual chats as spaces to connect and build community 💜
Hey #literacies fam, it’s Betina checking in from Coast Salish lands (Seattle specifically). I’m a prof or teacher education & will be in & out bc I’m also a #mamascholar doing pick up right now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey #literacies fam, it’s Betina checking in from Coast Salish lands (Seattle specifically). I’m a prof or teacher education & will be in & out bc I’m also a #mamascholar doing pick up right now.
Also appropriate for the National Day on Writing, my "keynote" at #CCTEFall2025 "Applying Our Professional Identities & Expertise to Engage in Advocacy" was a facilitated series of reflections on professional identities, expertise, current contexts, future dreaming, spheres of influence & action.
October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Also appropriate for the National Day on Writing, my "keynote" at #CCTEFall2025 "Applying Our Professional Identities & Expertise to Engage in Advocacy" was a facilitated series of reflections on professional identities, expertise, current contexts, future dreaming, spheres of influence & action.
It's the National Day on Writing!
Here's #WhyIWrite: Reflective writing gives me a prism through which I can see myself, acknowledge my struggles, and offer myself grace. Writing makes me more whole and it makes me a better person.
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Here's #WhyIWrite: Reflective writing gives me a prism through which I can see myself, acknowledge my struggles, and offer myself grace. Writing makes me more whole and it makes me a better person.
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The Power of Reflection – The Life and Times of an Evolving Academic
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October 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's the National Day on Writing!
Here's #WhyIWrite: Reflective writing gives me a prism through which I can see myself, acknowledge my struggles, and offer myself grace. Writing makes me more whole and it makes me a better person.
professorhsieh.edublogs.org/2025/10/20/t...
Here's #WhyIWrite: Reflective writing gives me a prism through which I can see myself, acknowledge my struggles, and offer myself grace. Writing makes me more whole and it makes me a better person.
professorhsieh.edublogs.org/2025/10/20/t...
Well, friends, I am coming back (slowly) to professional social media bc I miss community & sharing this side of myself. Catch me next week back in California at #CCTE25 & virtually at the #Literacies homecoming hosted by @writinglit.bsky.social (late but better late than never) on 10/28.
October 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Well, friends, I am coming back (slowly) to professional social media bc I miss community & sharing this side of myself. Catch me next week back in California at #CCTE25 & virtually at the #Literacies homecoming hosted by @writinglit.bsky.social (late but better late than never) on 10/28.
There are some days where all the things to do (professionally & personally) feel really hard and heavy, but I am grateful that writing is a site of healing for me and that it's a big (& one of the best) part(s) of my professional life.
August 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There are some days where all the things to do (professionally & personally) feel really hard and heavy, but I am grateful that writing is a site of healing for me and that it's a big (& one of the best) part(s) of my professional life.
Hello, Goodbye, See You Later: The Bittersweet Joy of Collaboration #blogpost
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Hello, Goodbye, See You Later: The Bittersweet Joy of Collaboration – The Life and Times of an Evolving Academic
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August 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hello, Goodbye, See You Later: The Bittersweet Joy of Collaboration #blogpost
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Fighting for disability rights has to include fighting for people whose symptoms of their disability that may make you uncomfortable (i.e. people with schizophrenia).
July 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fighting for disability rights has to include fighting for people whose symptoms of their disability that may make you uncomfortable (i.e. people with schizophrenia).
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This is a matter of life and death. Please do not stop sharing or donating.
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July 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is a matter of life and death. Please do not stop sharing or donating.
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As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.
Also friends, the other day, I was thinking about how much I miss professional community in social media spaces. I haven’t found a humanizing social networking outlet that fills the hole left by the loss of Twitter. Just putting that out there. It feels lonely w/o that community.
July 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Also friends, the other day, I was thinking about how much I miss professional community in social media spaces. I haven’t found a humanizing social networking outlet that fills the hole left by the loss of Twitter. Just putting that out there. It feels lonely w/o that community.