Veena Vasudevan

Imagination PLAYce - Pitt Day of Giving Imagination PLAYce is a community and classroom space that brings playful, embodied learning to higher education students and faculty. Since launching in fall 2022, we've partnered with faculty across...

We got to our 10-donor goal, but we are hoping to add more to our fund. Please consider a gift today, $5 or $10 makes a difference in the kinds of programming we can provide students and faculty. #PlayforAll #playinhighered pittdayofgiving.com/campaigns/im...

The possibilities of play: Pitt’s Imagination PLAYce emphasizes importance of play in learning - The Pitt News On the fifth floor of Posvar Hall, students can sometimes be found playing with Legos, making jewelry or creating art in a designated play space — the Imagination PLAYce.

A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by a student in our teacher ed program. Here are snippets of that conversation: pittnews.com/article/2002...

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We are more than halfway to unlocking a gift (from me!), if we get to 10 donors, I will add $150 to the funds. Please consider a gift today. Thanks to all the lovely friends of our space who have given to date.

As part of Pitt's Annual Day of Giving, I am asking you to consider a gift to Imagination PLAYce, a community classroom I founded that facilitates playful learning for higher education students and faculty. Your gift can continue to center play in higher ed!

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www.tcsejournal.com - Featherwands Can Freeze You Featherwands Can Freeze You: How Young Children Compose Ephemeral Texts Through Digitally Mediated Play Veena Vasudevan, University of Pittsburgh School of Education Abstract: In this auto-ethnograp...

Thrilled to share new article in Critical Social Educator - a true labor of love because it features my sons! I examine the critical literacies young children enact through play within their digitally mediated worlds through everyday moments. Please read and share. (Open access).

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Assistant or Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Thank you! I just tried your suggestion but it throws an error and then refreshes to the original 'accept' button! so frustrating. Which is clear that they know people will want to delete their memberships.

Not sure if others are experiencing this but when I went in to try and delete my account, they require you to 'accept' the terms and conditions and I can't get to my account. I've emailed them but haven't heard back.

Picture Book biographies: windows into others' worlds Human stories matter

Our second substack blog is live! I look at children's biographies as windows into others' worlds, & the way human stories inspired my sons and I, and hopefully you too! Shout out to @carnegielibrary.bsky.social for their collection of biographies. imaginationplayce.substack.com/p/picture-bo...

‘We’re Trying to Do the Best We Can Before We Die’ The people caring for others in Gaza are hungry too.

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www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Dozens of kids and adults in Gaza have starved to death in July as hunger surges Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.

Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.

Just donated…please consider doing the same.

Beneath the Howl of Hunger “And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."

—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social

Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

The Starvation Spreading in Gaza

Starvation is Spreading in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...

Wahoooo! Thank you for letting me know! ❤️

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social Any chance there will be a slight deadline extension this year? Asking for a friend (me!).

a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him

lol 'thank you for your attention to this matter'... sort of reminds me of:

And I appreciated how much the first grade wiggles were simply part and parcel of the day…. Expertly navigated around with routines and rhythms that are practiced this late in the year.

Spent morning observing 1st grade class- joy & movement on the playground, the excitement & play during choice, the earnest responses to the teacher’s questions & provocations; singing along in Spanish… & music, song, gentle words to move the day along. As I left - they were crafting stories. ❤️

I miss the taxi line at JFK ( the whistle!), browsing for dresses at a department store, paper menus, little hardware shops where the owner scales a ladder to find you mosquito coils…

Yeeeeep!

it may be the only way 🤔😂

you think we should write her a group letter? 😬

Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter Cuban mother Heidy Sanchez collapsed into tears as she recalled the moment last week when U.S. immigration officials in Florida told her she would be deported and separated from her still-breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter.

Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why. Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he's sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.

Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.

56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there

Engage, Dems.

New piece from me:
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I love my public library. The main branch of @carnegielibrary.bsky.social is just across from our campus. I bring my kids here often- they have an amazing children's section where they can play, do art, read, and hang out. I'm here right now. The fact that libraries are controversial....<sigh>

Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.

ERIC!

“ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.”

Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research.

www.governing.com/policy/major...

Last day with my #diglits undergrads today… I learned I give a lot more work… 😂 but also learned this is the only class many of them speak in and/or know each other’s names. Many students started to hang out & chat on sofas before class each week. I’m thankful they came along on the journey.

Let’s do Amazon now.