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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you are attending #AERA2026 come see me Friday!

Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I enjoyed speaking about teens and social media on @ctpublic.bsky.social this week! If you are interested in this research, please give it a listen.

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I believe this is a golden age of children's literature. There are books being published today that will shape the minds of generations; life-changing books whose readers will change the world. There really is a book for EVERYONE now - if we can just help every reader find those books!

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

To the employees at JFK that I encountered this morning, I wish you warm socks, 8 hours of sleep a night, and a winning lottery ticket.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I recently published a paper with an elementary teacher about supporting young kids in their understanding of digital concepts off screen. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We talked about it on this local pod:

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Ridgefield Tiger Talk 133: Preparing Students for The Digital World Article

Podcast Episode · Ridgefield Tiger Talk · 11/21/2025 · 16m

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I’m at #NCTE2025 and it feels like home! Come see me at 3:15 in Room 710/12

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 19/08/2025

Super exciting paper showing that high schools vary in their impacts on civic engagement. Schools that are better at improving academic outcomes are also better at creating voters. Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.

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Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com · 08/08/2025

Amen Book Wrangler! #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Booksky #Schoollibrarians #Educators #Books What a book you remember being read to you? That book you could not wait until the next day to hear more?

Alt text: Bold black text reads “Reading aloud is the lesson plan and it is enough” with three illustrated people below holding open books, including a woman in a patterned top, a person with short hair and a yellow book, and a woman with curly hair and glasses.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I’m sorry, but I will never ever ever call the Tappan Zee bridge anything other than the Tappan Zee bridge. Every time I see a Mario C*omo sign I want to scream and it’s been so many years.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/07/2025

"Exciting news to announce! The robbers I let into the house have agreed to give back the money they stole!"

Tweet from Republican Rep. Don Bacon, saying "Exciting news to announce! All frozen education funding for the upcoming school year have been released, following my letter to the OMB! It helps centers like KidsCanOmaha and our schools!"

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betty deville @bettydeville.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

People can have differing politics. You can oppose immigration, have views on limited taxes, be tough on crime, support an Israeli state - you can believe all of these things, but you also MUST have empathy and realize that your political views are not an excuse for intolerable cruelty.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Good news Wednesday! I have never submitted to #LRA, but I did this year, I was accepted to present my paper- “Navigating Digital Realities: Understanding Young People's Engagement with Social Media for News, Political Information, and Identity Formation” 🎉

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The problem, of course, isn’t that NPR has a liberal bias, it’s that facts have a liberal bias and today’s GOP is almost unanimous in its opposition to facts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR

The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/07/2025

Roosevelt understood that boredom, frustration, and social isolation could easily turn people (and especially young men*) toward violence, hate, and conspiracies.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Ma’am. I feel like she should have been a little more frightened, but I’m glad she wasn’t. When I passed, she was still hanging.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Woah. If you need me, I’ll be contemplating my existence for the foreseeable future.

Book cover of wild dark shore by Charlotte McCarty

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Baby elephants are my new hyper fixation

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I feel like we all need this ♥️

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I don’t care what you call it- investment in education, communities, and children will always have positive reverberations.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Make America compassionate and empathetic (for once, not again)

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Let media literacy and truth prevail in your honor.

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Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Disciplinary literacy explores knowledge-producing communities, but less often considers youth as scholars in their own right, particularly as related to English language arts. Drawing on theories of...

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Every time a congressperson speaks lately, it feels like “thoughts and prayers”.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is abhorrent. We are so worried about saving the kids from everything under the sun, except the very things we can help with. I know I speak for so many adults when I say our doors are always open to talk to anybody who needs it.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Learning to read is not a developmental milestone. Little kids are not supposed to be able to regulate themselves for eight hours a day. I feel like I can go on and on.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Could be old enough to collect Social Security! Also, yes it did.

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nucenturymod.bsky.social @nucenturymod.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🤬🤬🤬 "Little boys can't sit still and they'll be bigger for sports in, girls are at better time management and self control" That's the patriarchy pushing responsibilities on girls from birth. How much better would girls do if they started a year later? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls?

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

YES. Stop w the meaningless educational commentary- posing inequitable solutions to problems that can easily be fixed by stopping the socialization of girls to be controlled and allow allowing kids to be kids! If we listened to educational researchers and developmental scientists, we’d be fine.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Even though you are currently acting foolish, I love you NYC.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yes we will, but realistically, SHOULDN’T YOU?!?

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Hit the streets tomorrow. Be nonviolent. Be joyfully defiant. Be defiantly joyful. Ridicule him. Condemn fascism. Oppose I.C.E. Affirm diversity. Embody America. Love your neighbor. Refuse to be intimidated. Be safe. Be loud. Be encouraged. #NoKingsDay

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just a quick complaint before the day starts… if it does not stop raining in New England, my blueberries are going to be bitter AF.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.” Edward W. Said

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I’m really annoyed about ChatGPT’s highjacking of the em dash. I just reread an article I know I wrote and questioned myself because of my *perfect* use of my favorite punctuation. #academicwriting #ai

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Anyone have a word they use so incredibly often when #academicwriting? If I use the word “nuance” one more time, I may need to change careers. #literacies

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Given my profession and interests, the fact that I can’t spell Freire naturally and without triple checking is a problem. Forget about “Freirean”.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I know I’m in my critical/media #literacies era, but at my heart I am a developmentalist. We ignore all of this research & glorify Finland who doesn’t. Let’s do phonological assessment to help kids with dyslexia/ld - let the kids explore and learn self-reg without stressing sight words at age 5.

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Why Boys Are Behind in School From the Start

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Lindsay Graham is trash.

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