Rebecca E Sawyer
@teacherlinguist.bsky.social
Former HS Spanish teacher, current SLA PhD candidate at UW Madison. Interested in language identity and ideologies in the classroom. When not chasing my kid, find me reading fantasy or stress baking.
Having a grad student newsletter talk about how summer is a “calendar white space” and good for micro credentials and skill building is really infuriating as a grad student parent. We’re not all 23 free of obligations and financial precariousness.
May 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Having a grad student newsletter talk about how summer is a “calendar white space” and good for micro credentials and skill building is really infuriating as a grad student parent. We’re not all 23 free of obligations and financial precariousness.
I emerge from my maternity leave to share that I’m going to ACTFL in New Orleans this coming November! This time I’m presenting some research from my dissertation. Feels good after getting a desk rejection for a paper a few weeks ago that made me feel like I don’t belong in academia.
April 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I emerge from my maternity leave to share that I’m going to ACTFL in New Orleans this coming November! This time I’m presenting some research from my dissertation. Feels good after getting a desk rejection for a paper a few weeks ago that made me feel like I don’t belong in academia.
Today in “weird researcher milestones”: I no longer cringe when I hear myself speaking when doing interview transcripts.
February 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today in “weird researcher milestones”: I no longer cringe when I hear myself speaking when doing interview transcripts.
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Please stop boosting these "alt" govt accounts. I know their content sounds good, but it is often unconfirmed rumors and things they could have no way to know. I know some of them have websites that make them seem real, but look close—no real info, buisness status, but ...hmm, weird they sell merch.
February 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Please stop boosting these "alt" govt accounts. I know their content sounds good, but it is often unconfirmed rumors and things they could have no way to know. I know some of them have websites that make them seem real, but look close—no real info, buisness status, but ...hmm, weird they sell merch.
Being a PhD student in my mid-30s often feels frustrating because there is a lot about the system that feels infantalizing. I have a child with another on the way, a mortgage, and already had a career teaching. I’m not a kid fresh out of undergrad (heck, I’ve met faculty younger than me).
February 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Being a PhD student in my mid-30s often feels frustrating because there is a lot about the system that feels infantalizing. I have a child with another on the way, a mortgage, and already had a career teaching. I’m not a kid fresh out of undergrad (heck, I’ve met faculty younger than me).
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Cool, but I’m just going to keep doing my thing. Don’t pre-comply!
Cool, but I’m just going to keep doing my thing. Don’t pre-comply!
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
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January 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Cool, but I’m just going to keep doing my thing. Don’t pre-comply!
Cool, but I’m just going to keep doing my thing. Don’t pre-comply!
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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
Sooooo my PA appointment is part of a federally funded project. That specifically deals with equitable education. 😬
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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January 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Sooooo my PA appointment is part of a federally funded project. That specifically deals with equitable education. 😬
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I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about abolition, liberation, and curricular justice in the field of world language education. I’m honored and excited to share and reflect on this topic during my plenary at the upcoming AAAL conference. I hope you’ll join me!
www.aaal.org/events/aaal-...
www.aaal.org/events/aaal-...
January 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about abolition, liberation, and curricular justice in the field of world language education. I’m honored and excited to share and reflect on this topic during my plenary at the upcoming AAAL conference. I hope you’ll join me!
www.aaal.org/events/aaal-...
www.aaal.org/events/aaal-...
ACTFL 2025 proposal submitted! Fingers crossed! Not just because I’ve enjoyed going to and presenting at ACTFL before, but I’ve never been to New Orleans and I’m already daydreaming about the food. I miiiiight use conference travel as an excuse to play tourist, just maybe
January 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
ACTFL 2025 proposal submitted! Fingers crossed! Not just because I’ve enjoyed going to and presenting at ACTFL before, but I’ve never been to New Orleans and I’m already daydreaming about the food. I miiiiight use conference travel as an excuse to play tourist, just maybe
Oops ACTFL proposals are due this week and I haven’t started 🫣 going to do a research paper this time and present from my dissertation!
January 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Oops ACTFL proposals are due this week and I haven’t started 🫣 going to do a research paper this time and present from my dissertation!
Been slow getting back into work mode after winter break but today I had what felt like a real, productive day!
Hate to admit but the combo of more excercise and getting back to therapy helps 😂
Hate to admit but the combo of more excercise and getting back to therapy helps 😂
January 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Been slow getting back into work mode after winter break but today I had what felt like a real, productive day!
Hate to admit but the combo of more excercise and getting back to therapy helps 😂
Hate to admit but the combo of more excercise and getting back to therapy helps 😂
Very inconvenient that Nvivo likes to crash my computer in the middle of coding. Hope this isn’t a sign my computer needs an upgrade; wasn’t planning on that until I graduate!
January 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Very inconvenient that Nvivo likes to crash my computer in the middle of coding. Hope this isn’t a sign my computer needs an upgrade; wasn’t planning on that until I graduate!
What I want to do: bake all day and listen to Christmas music
What I’m going to likely do: code data and clean my floors. Maybe also with Christmas music but my kid has some STRONG opinions about what he’ll listen to 😂
What I’m going to likely do: code data and clean my floors. Maybe also with Christmas music but my kid has some STRONG opinions about what he’ll listen to 😂
December 23, 2024 at 6:56 PM
What I want to do: bake all day and listen to Christmas music
What I’m going to likely do: code data and clean my floors. Maybe also with Christmas music but my kid has some STRONG opinions about what he’ll listen to 😂
What I’m going to likely do: code data and clean my floors. Maybe also with Christmas music but my kid has some STRONG opinions about what he’ll listen to 😂
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The small human, big human, and furry baby were both very excited to have me back! Done with conference travel until ACTFL in 2025; which means I should probably make time to get some papers to journals before this baby comes in spring!
November 24, 2024 at 11:27 PM
The small human, big human, and furry baby were both very excited to have me back! Done with conference travel until ACTFL in 2025; which means I should probably make time to get some papers to journals before this baby comes in spring!
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@clemonsaris.bsky.social & @ujuanya.bsky.social present MI-BRIDGE an open source (FREE!!!!), task-based curriculum that centers Black identities
If you teach Spanish & have Black students (which is almost EVERY Spanish teacher), you need to know about this resource:
laccmibridge.fiu.edu
#actfl24
If you teach Spanish & have Black students (which is almost EVERY Spanish teacher), you need to know about this resource:
laccmibridge.fiu.edu
#actfl24
Home - MI-BRIDGE
laccmibridge.fiu.edu
November 23, 2024 at 6:53 PM
@clemonsaris.bsky.social & @ujuanya.bsky.social present MI-BRIDGE an open source (FREE!!!!), task-based curriculum that centers Black identities
If you teach Spanish & have Black students (which is almost EVERY Spanish teacher), you need to know about this resource:
laccmibridge.fiu.edu
#actfl24
If you teach Spanish & have Black students (which is almost EVERY Spanish teacher), you need to know about this resource:
laccmibridge.fiu.edu
#actfl24
Would have absolutely killed for the MI-BRIDGE curriculum that centers Black students and Black Spanish speakers worldwide when I was in the classroom. What an amazing resource! #actfl24
November 23, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Would have absolutely killed for the MI-BRIDGE curriculum that centers Black students and Black Spanish speakers worldwide when I was in the classroom. What an amazing resource! #actfl24
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Language learning and education should not be limited to capitalists pursuits.
@proferandolph.bsky.social #actfl24
@proferandolph.bsky.social #actfl24
November 22, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Language learning and education should not be limited to capitalists pursuits.
@proferandolph.bsky.social #actfl24
@proferandolph.bsky.social #actfl24
I didint anticipate our session to be standing room only, but I’m delighted by the turnout and excited we got folks thinking about switching our mentality from world language teachers to bilingual educators #ACTFL2024
November 22, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I didint anticipate our session to be standing room only, but I’m delighted by the turnout and excited we got folks thinking about switching our mentality from world language teachers to bilingual educators #ACTFL2024
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Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here:
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project
Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here:
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
I suppose a delayed and then rescheduled flight gave me time to get some coding done 😂
November 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I suppose a delayed and then rescheduled flight gave me time to get some coding done 😂
I need to stop just lurking here! I’ll be at the ACTFL convention this weekend, find me on Friday at 11:30 co-presenting a workshop on Spanish HLL using a framework for bilingual education! #actfl
November 19, 2024 at 8:52 PM
I need to stop just lurking here! I’ll be at the ACTFL convention this weekend, find me on Friday at 11:30 co-presenting a workshop on Spanish HLL using a framework for bilingual education! #actfl
IRB approved my study let’s gooooo!!! Very ready to get into the field!
November 7, 2024 at 9:38 PM
IRB approved my study let’s gooooo!!! Very ready to get into the field!