Still buzzing from being able to spend a minute chatting about baseball with Hanif Abdurraqib last night at FLP Author Events. I hope you're playing The Show today - happy #OpeningDay

Thrilled to share the fifth annual #SpecEd Colloquium on May 3rd featuring the one and only Ernest Morrell. Always free, Nicole Mirra and I would love for you to join us. Info to register is here: open.substack.com/pub/speculativ….

PSA for everyone arriving in Philly for #AERA2024 - even though the Convention Center has many entrances, you need to enter for the first time on Market Street between 11th & 12th to get your badge. #TheMoreYouKnow #AERA24

It's always awkward sitting at the book signing table so come say hi to AnterO))) Garcia & I today! & then come to the poster session on Saturday where many of the authors from the book & recent JLS issue on speculative ed will share their work (1:15pm CC Level 100 Rm 115B) #AERA2024

The 5th Annual Speculative Education Colloquium will take place on Friday, May 3rd at 4pm EST. Register for this free, online event to learn from Ernest Morrell & network with fellow educational dreamers! Share with your networks & register at tinyurl.com/SpeculativeEd24

Principled & powerful statement from #VietThanhNguyen - Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Genius, and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC about the silencing of USC valedictorian & South Asian American senior, Asna Tabassum

When you punish students for their love & compassion you teach them how powerful compassion truly is. You admit to them that you govern on a premise that cannot withstand love. Love prevails. We’re witnessing the soul growth of a generation. They deserve our care & respect.💜

🇵🇸BREAKING: NYU faculty have formed a chain around Gaza Solidarity Encampment as student organizers prepare to pray

So excited that Ernest Morrell is receiving this well-deserved honor!! Come celebrate and learn from him at the Speculative Education Colloquium next Friday, May 3rd at 4pm EST. Register here: tinyurl.com/SpeculativeEd24

Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸 “I imagine being a father in Palestine.. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”

I cannot stop thinking about the choice to point guns at students who spent their entire childhoods training to survive too frequent school shootings and who are out protesting because students half way across the world are being murdered America hates its kids so fucking much

Final call for registration! 5th Annual Speculative Education Colloquium this Friday, May 3rd at 4pm EST. Register here: tinyurl.com/SpeculativeEd24

This moment is very clarifying. The connections between carceral states, academic institutions, and global imperial projects is in sharp focus.

.@NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick and member-leader Nicole Mirra will be presenting at the free '24 @Smithsonian National Education Summit for educators. Register for virtual & in-person sessions spotlighting interdisciplinary connections here: s.si.edu/EducationSummi…

Middle schoolers taught me this summer that building 'the world to come' is about making everyday choices that bring us a tiny bit closer to justice in each moment - even when options involve deeply flawed people & systems. I know which choice supports the struggle - let's go!

Of course she is not my perfect candidate, but we need a safer ground from which to push for real change and this is it, so all in. The life you save may be your own. The wheel’s still in spin: fire, flood, pandemic and worse.

Literacy, language, & ELA educators/scholars! Come learn about the National Council of Research on Language & Literacy (NCRLL) Wed Sept. 18th 2pm ET! Hear from the amazing Drs. Tracey Flores & Angie Zapata & hear about how to get involved. Register: tinyurl.com/NCRLL2024

“Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.” — Toni Morrison✨❤️

Don't forget to register - this event is open to all literacy, language, and ELA folks!