Profile avatar
karismjones.bsky.social
Educator acafan activist & Assistant Prof of ELA Education || Empire State University || Exec @writinglit #literacies šŸ’«šŸ“ššŸ’»|| ttrpg & gaming || karisjonesphd.com
161 posts 839 followers 529 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

#literacies so long and thanks for all the fish! Best wishes to everyone submitting to LRA, we are scrambling over here šŸ˜‚

Be sure to check out our latest Inquiring Minds podcast: Multimodal Authoring! https://buff.ly/43aNQeW #literacies

Please also check out the Forms of Freedom website (https://buff.ly/41qPCHs) featuring The Art and Design of Black and Indigenous Creative Public Pedagogies at the invitation of Drs. Emery Petchauer and Ruth Nicole Brown. #literacies

I love the restorying work @ebonyteach.bsky.social & @amystorn.bsky.social have done building from Rosenblatt! #literacies

Was just thinking abt Scribner & Coleā€™s #literacies def the other day. I used it in my diss. It felt so expansive/inclusive at the timeā€¦and Iā€™m just not feeling it anymore. I want to revisit. How are each of the 3 constructs defined? Whereā€™s the community? Whereā€™s the critical/creative process?

Speaking our language šŸ˜‚ #literacies

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

New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists." This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

THIS! ā€œThis grant was designed to strengthen teacher recruitment and retention, reduce vacancies, and improve hiring processes. There was no evidence of fraud, waste, or abuse, and the program wasā€¦delivering measurable results for our schools and students.ā€ www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Here's NCTE's newest ELATE Position Statement: Exploring, Incorporating, and Questioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in English Teacher Education. Can be shared without having to seek permission from NCTE.

If you played TTRPGs between 1970-2004, PhD Candidate Geoffrey Ramirez (Binghamton U) is seeking participants for ā€œCharacter Creation: The Tabletop Role-Players Oral History Projectā€ as part of his dissertation. Interviews will be archived at the Strong Museum of Play (can be time-locked, etc)

Announcing our February #literacies chat with @empetch.bsky.social!

What keeps you standing? Honored to share my Equity & Excellence piece on how Asian American girls dexterously use civic literacies to author selves & surface buried histories. Deep love to my beautiful youth partners for sharing their brilliance w. me ā¤ļø āœØ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

šŸ“¢ ANNOUNCING AN ESSAY CONTEST FOR HS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS!!! šŸš€ How have gradesā€”or the experience of learning without themā€”influenced your learning, growth, or personal journey? Please share w/interested students! @gotlearning.bsky.social #ungrading #growbeyondgrades growbeyondgrades.org/contest?123

Today, 2/14, is the final day for Emerging Designer Program nominations! We encourage self-nominations! Includes a trip to Gen Con, $2k honorarium, and prize package. forms.gle/XJWuaUh7JU6r...

New org established to defend Department of Education coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education www.protectpubliced.org

Iā€™ve been encouraged to find colleagues who are interested in thinking about what gradelessness might look like ā€˜at scale,ā€™ as a structural feature instead of a ā€˜hack.ā€™ @karismjones.bsky.social growbeyondgrades.org/blog/reclaiming-gradeless

I *may* land in DC in time to go directly from the airport to Independence Avenue for this!

Sharing this petition to protect the Dept of Ed: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...

I am a banned author. Please care about book bans. And fight back! This is how they spread repression. It starts local, at some tiny branch library in a rural town. We have to fight them there. If we can't be bothered, they win. And they know this.

Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders

Colleagues, Iā€™m about to make an ask that used to work better on Twitter, but if you could help me out that would be so amazing. Iā€™m considering the timing of my tenure process and looking to make my strongest case. If youā€™ve used my work in class, could you please email or dm me to let me know?