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Rachael Gabriel

@rachegabriel.bsky.social
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Researcher. Writer. Professor of Literacy Editor of The Reading Teacher

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
What is book expansion? How can expanding books to include multiple languages work to combat linguistic imperialism? This piece, from our most recent Special Issue explains the power and importance of expanding books in the classroom. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This Teaching and Learning in Action piece, taken from our most recent Special Issue, investigates the benefits of recognising and building on Spanish-English bilingual children's home literacy practices in the classroom. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
From our most recent Special Issue, this piece explores the ways book expansion can enrich the learning experience and support linguistic diversity. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This Teaching and Learning in Action piece explores the beauty of Blackness from a Jamaican perspective in the U.S., and studies the effects of pro-Black pedagogy in classrooms. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In this Action & Learning piece, from our most recent Special Issue, Muñoz and Babino propose a vision of bilingual teachers expanding biliteracy by first healing themselves. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is my stack as I get ready for Kate Frankel's talk at the Adolescent Literacy Summit on Friday. Still time to register here reading.education.uc...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thrilled to introduce the student panel for the UConn Neag School of Education Adolescent Literacy Summit on May 16th! Come see what these Manchester Youth Commissioners have to say about reading, writing and literacy development in and out of school.
Collage of headshots for 7 Manchester youth commissioners and the youth commission's logo. names of each are listed below.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The Asset-Based Integrative View of Reading (Gabriel & Lopez, 2025) elaborates Duke & Cartright's "Active View" by considering how all the language and cognitive processes are actually accomplished. See asset-based pedagogy and self-determination theory at work here & at the May 16th summit!
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This Teaching and Learning Guide piece from the archives investigates how making film trailers for books can improve students' visualisation strategies. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi... @crodriguezmojica.bsky.social @@ilatoday.bsky.social @navangovender.bsky.social
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Another reminder that arts and electives can be the best reading intervention. #re-mediate "Adding text with highlighted phrase boundaries enhanced the effect of readers theatre on two aspects of prosody: expression and phrasing." @ilatoday.bsky.social
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This Teaching and Learning in Action piece, from our recent Special Issue, offers powerful insight into using picture books as a tool for exploring critical translingual literacies. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi... @crodriguezmojica.bsky.social @ilatoday.bsky.social @navangovender.bsky.social
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Join all of us! reading.education.uc...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Love getting questions about the Adolescent Literacy Summit because I get to brag about the speakers!!! reading.education.uc...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
As editor of the @ilatoday 's K-6 journal, The Reading Teacher, I keep seeing submissions related to phonemic awareness that simply re-introduce the concept with no new research or strategies. It's happened 4-5 times in the last few months. I wonder what this trend means for authors. 1/3
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Counting down to the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th. The Matthew Effect, snowball cycle of exponential, self-extending growth - or its opposite - can be interrupted (and reversed!) at any point in the cycle. 1/2
Cycle of reading success and failure based on practice leading to exposure, understanding and confidence.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I'm counting down to the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th with some of the big ideas you can look forward to learning more about ;) Here's #1. It's a flip of Shanahan's 2008 triangle that has disciplinary learning reserved only for the tippy top. It's for everyone. 1/2
upside-down pyramid with discipline-specific texts on top supported by engagement and motivation.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"If little is asked of them, or if they fail to see real-world applications, they tend to give little in return" www.theatlantic.com/... 1/2
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The Teen-Disengagement Crisis - The Atlantic
By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff. The ripple effects could last for years.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In this article from our most recent Special Issue, Jennipher C. K. Frazier recounts her experience of being a literacy coach working in a 'eurocratic mandated curriculum'. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi... @crodriguezmojica.bsky.social @ilatoday.bsky.social
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Next in the spotlight is this 'Teaching and Learning in Action' piece from Volume 77, Issue 6, looking at how digital technologies can be used to support emerging bilingual learners. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Next in the spotlight is this 'Teaching and Learning in Action' piece from Volume 77, Issue 6, looking at how digital technologies can be used to support emerging bilingual learners. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We want to start spotlighting articles, both from our current issues and from the archive, that showcase how empowering and emancipatory practices can transform teaching. We begin with this 'Research in Action' piece from our latest special issue: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We want to start spotlighting articles, both from our current issues and from the archive, that showcase how empowering and emancipatory practices can transform teaching. We begin with this 'Research in Action' piece from our latest special issue: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
May 16th, Hartford CT see. you. there. reading.education.uconn.edu/adolescent-l...
poster advertising the Adolescent Literacy Summit on May 16th in Hartford with art by 58Creativity showing a design based on the ASL sign for "processing"
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Our poster image is used with permission from the artist, 58Creativity, capturing the idea of "processing" in ASL. Come see what's in process at the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th reading.education.uconn.edu/adolescent-l... @uconnneag
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Navan Govender @navangovender.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Reading Teacher Journal co-editors: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1936...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Getting ready for the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th? Here's what's in @JT Torres my.wlu.edu/harte-center... 's stack as we prep! reading.education.uconn.edu/adolescent-l... @uconnneag
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone
Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
uconnuecs.cventevents.com/event/LitSum... Join us!
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Adolescent Literacy Summit: Foundations for Middle and High School Policy, Practice, and Pedagogy. Online registration by Cvent
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
good stuff www.patronicity.com/project/deca...
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DeCARbonize the Oceans Community Education Project | Patronicity
Youth interns will organize ongoing campaigns to improve and grow public use of alternative transportation in the New Haven region.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/03/2025
“To control the country’s education system is, in no uncertain terms, to control the country’s future,” Clay Risen writes: theatln.tc/EogIGNtI
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 05/03/2025
If you don't want to watch the entire video, click on the description for the full list of those who donated to Trump and P25. youtu.be/e5ApF-hBy1Y?...
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Companies That Donated To PROJECT 2025!
YouTube video by Tell The People with Sunny & W1
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.erininthemorning.com/p/judge-bloc.... "The ruling applies nationwide, and should allow hospitals that temporarily paused care to resume."
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Judge Blocks Trump Trans Ban Nationwide, Slams Reliance On Cass Review
The ruling applies nationwide, and should allow hospitals that temporarily paused care to resume.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
If I could be in Philly. I would be there. So if you are in Philly. You should go. Meanwhile: ordering! cyborgmemoirs.com/2025/02/dism...
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Cyborg Memoirs at Dismantling the Master’s Clock book release, March 13 2025, Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South St, Philadelphia – CYBORG MEMOIRS
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Navan Govender @navangovender.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Check out the new themed issue from The Reading Teacher! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19362714... @uklitassociation.bsky.social #CriticalLiteracy #literacymatters #literacyteacher
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My thoughts on cuts to science via NIH and IES It is: ILLEGAL: the funding has been congressionally mandated IDIOTIC: the multiplier effects of R&D are big in the moment (local econs) and huge in the long run (innovation) IMMORAL: knowledge is—hear me out—good; chaos and destruction are bad
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
a headline: Donald Trump turns away in disgust as Elon Musk's son picks his nose: Watch www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
and a joyous black history month to you too. apnews.com/article/prou...
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Black church in DC that was vandalized by the Proud Boys gains control over the group's trademark
The Proud Boys has lost the trademark to their name and logos after a judge gave the rights to an historic Black church in Washington that was vandalized by the far-right group's members in 2020.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
revisiting Susan Kates's piece on the Hampton Communication Center (HCC) from her piece: Literacy, Voting Rights, and the Citizenship Schools in the South, 1957-1970 free to read here. www.jstor.org/stable/44806...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"In every era of US history, queer folks have carved out their spaces despite criminalization, discrimination, and violence. We must have faith that we can do it again now." www.teenvogue.com/story/dear-t...
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Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist
Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NAEPies: THE SKT IS FALLING!!!! COVID kids: the world has changed. We changed with it. We left you and your measures behind!!!
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This Marty West quote captures a lot of problem. A dismal report card in math and reading hechingerreport.org/naep-test-20...
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2024 coming later this morning!
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I think this got lost in all of us wondering if they were cutting off funding, but, as feared, US DoE is weaponizing the Office of Civil Rights www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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U.S. Department of Education Launches Investigation into Denver Public Schools for Converting Girl’s Restroom to All-Gender Facility
The Office for Civil Rights today announced an investigation into the Denver Public Schools for discriminating against its female students by converting a female restroom into an all-gender restroom i...
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I just subscribed to signs wonders ! buttondown.com/signs wonders bc @novicsara.bsky.social is brave enough to do the right thing and vote with their feet.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Who else is stoked for renewed adolescent reading crisis messaging on Jan 29, 2025?!?!? Dude, the scores? We know. We knew. We've been saying.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/01/2025
We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social
A screenshot of a multi‐column table listing several U.S. presidential Executive Orders relating to LGBTQ+ rights and antidiscrimination policies. Each row has columns for “Origin” (POTUS), “Number/Identifier” (e.g., EO 13988), “Title” (such as Preventing and Combating Discrimination…), “Action Type” (e.g., Broad Nondiscrimination, Military Nondiscrimination), “Summary” (key points of each order), and “Date Signed.” The listed orders span from early 2021 through early 2025, covering topics like preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, banning conversion therapy, rescinding prior harmful EOs, and restricting or expanding DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.A spreadsheet at the top shows columns tracking anti‐LGBTQ bills by status and year: total bills (334), 2025 bills (327), 2024 rollovers (7), how many passed committees (3), passed one chamber (5), passed both chambers (0), enacted (1), vetoed (0), failed (3), and carried forward (0). Below that, another header row lists different types of anti‐LGBTQ legislation (e.g., gender‐affirming care bans, pronoun bans, “Don’t Say Gay,” drag bans, bathroom bans) with the total count of each category (e.g., 55 for gender‐affirming care bans, 20 for pronoun bans, 14 for “Don’t Say Gay,” etc.). A color‐coded U.S. map spans the lower half, with states shaded from light orange to deep red according to how many anti‐LGBTQ bills they contain. Texas appears in the darkest red (46 bills), with lighter shades indicating fewer bills in other states. A note at the bottom right explains that the map shows total tracked bills per state, which does not necessarily reflect each bill’s likelihood of passage.
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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We have a pendulum in adolescent literacy too: from LOTS OF ATTENTION to very little every 15-20 yrs. There's already been an uptick in books/courses/webinars about adolescent literacy as the elementary market begins to dry up.
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