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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Fresh off the press in NCTE’s Language Arts! "Producing beyond the Binaries: Playful Languaging in Kindergarten Classrooms.” This piece celebrates and learns alongside the "unruly" meaning-making of young children: mittens, cats, bunnies, farts, marshmallow feet, and more 🐱

Photo of the first page of a new article!

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This morning’s #NCTE2025: Ran from a showing of The Librarians with @maggietokudahall.bsky.social to hear from @ncte.org‘s Intellectual Freedom Fellow, Ricki Ginsberg, asks colleagues talk about the data from 4000+ surveys of ELA teachers how they experience censorship.

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FINDINGS
Altering Text Content
Removing or redacting a portion of a text Stopping a text in the middle of instruction
Literally defacing the text (e.g. drawing clothes on a character)

Employing Manipulation and Uncertainty
Providing false reasons for text removals
Not reading the censored texts
Not providing any justification for a text removal
Ambiguity
Quietly or secretly removing a text
Using misleading language (e.g. "protecting teachers")

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Dr. Betina Hsieh (she/her/ 她） @profhsieh.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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

Flyer for "A Future We Can Dream Boldly About: Creating Shared Futures with and for Asian American Children" Saturday, November 22, 2025 8:15-9:30 am -- Colorado Convention Center Room 703 with pictures of the 4 Asian American women panelists (and featuring 2 5th grade panelists, not pictured)

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

S L O W chats with coffee. Friend, yes.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

And how do we use our time together to design collective responses?

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A3: What's fun are the random #literacies "lobby time" gatherings at various conferences... talking out manuscripts fueled by laughter and big ideas (and coffee)

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A2: Tbh, every single #literacies chat impacts my thinking. It's hard for me to be timely, concise, and deep with limited characters. However! There was one about relational (and maybe play-based?) literacies that felt especially generative. If I'm still replying days later... that's a good thing.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A1: I originally joined the #literacies chat on Twitter as a grad student at UT Austin. It's been great to "meet" like-minded folks, build thinking together, and learn with scholars I admire.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hi #literacies! Kerry Alexander, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Glad to be here. ✍️🧡

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional @nashb.bsky.social @torikflint.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social @teachkht.bsky.social @languageartist.bsky.social @lmv.bsky.social

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Jane has always been an inspiration to me—unwavering in her scholarly discernment, relational ethics, and advocacy. May she rest in peace. 💗

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 11/04/2025

Our libraries and library professionals are keystones of our communities fostering minds and offering services to individuals regardless of background. We must lift them up, especially this National Library Week, and demand that Trump and DOGE do not gut support for these vital institutions.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 21/03/2025

Without a strong Department of Education, kids from working class families will be left behind, unable to access the education they need to succeed. We stand with our affiliated unions as they fight this illegal order.

usatoday.com

'See you in court': Teachers union vows to fight Trump's Education Department order

Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, issued a stark warning to the Trump administration.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I’ve completed a million billion article reviews in the last few weeks. because: #reciprocal #peerreview juju. 🗣️ If you *want* reviews, *be* a reviewer.

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Check out our latest Inquiring Minds Podcast Episode! It’s all about poetry and literacies, and we’ve got some amazing guests joining us. Drs. Stephanie Abrahams, Sarah Donovan, Victoria Gill, and Darius Phelps are all there to share their expertise ✨.

Inquiring MInds Podcast

Poetry & Literacies with Special Guests Drs. Stephanie Abraham, Sarah Donovan, Victoria Gill & Darius Phelps.

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Join us for our upcoming March #literacies chat with Dr. @ankhithakurta.bsky.social!

The poster reads: Join us for our March #literacies chat! Fostering Arts-Based Civic Literacies on Tuesday 3/25 5-6 pm PT | 8-9 pm ET. Hosted by Dr. Ankhi Thakurta (@ankhithakurta.bsky.social), Assistant Professor of Education at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Controlled silence, dismissal of culturally responsive lesson planning, & behavioral contingencies for teaching & learning are not written into policy; however, the social powers they convey are disseminated through materiality & relationality every day." journals.sfu.ca/iccps/index....

journals.sfu.ca

Constellating Literacy: A Diffractive Analysis of Policy Implementation and Classroom Practices in Early Literacy Education | International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So, I've been mulling on this. Either I don't understand what you mean, or I disagree. In early childhood literacy, I see identity and materiality as tremendously intertwined. I'd love to hear your arguments at some point. :)

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I can’t tell where I am most the time. 🙃

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A5: If #literacies are everything, are they anything at all? If you highlight the whole page, have you highlighted anything at all?

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A4: notliteracies as (maybe) the inverse of #literacies as as freedom? Can I decide to reject that which does not serve?

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A3: interesting. I’m working on connecting back to body/bodies, sound, time, and non-linear configurations of performance* and production* in classrooms *lots here

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A2: slowness (!!), mediated activity, posthumanism (neohumanism, Braidotti), discursive materiality, (trans)languaging, play, early #literacies, and the relationships among & between. What knowledges are produc(ing).

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A1: to me, #literacies (broadly) are relational, material constellations. Being/doings that include tools, bodies, structures, signs… moving with and alongside others.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hi all, 👋 I’m kerry, an assistant professor of literary at the University of Maryland 🐢

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Is Literacy Everything Now? If so, Then What Is Literacy?

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

✨Reading teachers! ✨The UMD Reading Specialist program aligns with Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) certification and is approved by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation. Earn yourMaster of Education (M.Ed.) degree. ❤️🐢🖤 #EduSky #literacy #reading

See this website: https://academiccatalog.umd.edu/graduate/programs/curriculum-instruction-edci/reading-specialist-cert-med/

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

@ncte.org will have a special issue volume coming out very soon (in typesetting now!) with an excellent piece by Ricki Ginsburg and colleagues on teachers navigating soft censorship.

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Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Okay I don't like or trust politicians, but I am grateful for the people of Maryland who have been contacting their elected officials inc. Raskin & Van Hollen* and asking them to show some spine. MD represent *and Alsosucks lol ugh

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