Emily Pendergrass

Every year #NCTE25 fills my cup. Long time friends and new ones, plans for future collaborations, and thousands on thousands of steps🤗

Are you at #NCTE25? A bunch of us are meeting at the Hyatt bar tonight at 7:30, if you have a moment to pop by.

@teachersdisruptcensorship on insta… new and trying to grow #ncte2025

Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"

Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.

When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.

Beyond grateful for the opportunity to reconnect (and learn Bluesky). Thanks to all who attended and I can't wait for futrue collaborations. #literacies

Truth. I might have to resort to farming #literacies

A6: I agree! I imagine classrooms where every learner’s language, identity, and creative expression are valued as part of meaning-making.

Our task is to enact that future now through scholarship, pedagogy, and community that foreground connection over compliance. #literacies

Q6: What #literacies futures are you envisioning that we can work toward in the present?

A5: You can all come to Gold Coast Australia with me in June to Relation Centered Education Network! Proposals due Nov 13. #literacies in the Down Under

A5: Agree on the reserach and practice bridge Possible #literacies topics:
• Critical Joy and Teacher Renewal
• AI, Creativity, and Multimodal Literacies

We can wear our @elpatronhimself.bsky.social #literacies hoodies :) on the field trips

A community of practice is more vital than ever. #literacies

I'm too busy reading to host. @anna-phd.bsky.social is doing all the hard work for this #literacies chat

Will you be at NCTE this year? We could have an in-person #literacies hang

A3: #literacies has connected me with educators who remind me that literacy is collective work. These dialogues have shaped my teaching, mentorship, and collaborations across classrooms and communities.

Jon Wargo! It feels like jsut yesterday @anna-phd.bsky.social and I were pestering you to host a #literacies chat with us

A2: A million years ago on that other platform, we had Global literacies and cultural awareness #literacies chat with @josepopoff

Q2: Which topics from the #literacies chats have stayed with you and impacted your thinking or research the most?

#mamascholars in the house! I was on the phone until 1 minute before being a mom for a upset 21yo child/junior in college. #literacies chat and passed the phone to hubs to console the tears.

We totally need hoodies. Secret #literacies mafia unite

I think this is one of the beauties of social media... connecting with likeminded people who push your thinking and challenge you. #literacies

A1. Fall of 2011, I tweeted something about new literacies and @anna-phd.bsky.social responded. And a friendship and the #literacies chat was born! We ran the chat for years before we ever met in person!

My apologies. It is a #literacies shindig. And I am so excited to see all these old friends.

It is a reunion! #literacies!

HI all. Emily Pendergrass from Nashville, TN. I'm a Professor Literacy Education and direct the reading ed MEd. program. #literacies homecoming.

Friends, for the next hour you will see too many posts from me with the hashtag #literacies! I get to guest host tonight, so it will be a few more than usual. Feel free to pop in by searching #literacies and then Latest. Add #literacies to your posts and we'll all sync up!

Less than a minute to #literacies homecoming! All are welcome to join in community and conversation!

So glad you are here! #Literacies (I miss Trondheim)

Wow! I'm ready for the #literacies homecoming... Trying to figure out the bluesky deck. :)

Tonight is the night!