Stephanie Reid

HOW MUCH WILL YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT LOSE? Federal budget cuts to public education will eliminate afterschool and summer programs, arts and technology classes, teachers, emergency preparedness, mental health services, and more. Search for your state and school district to see how much your child’s education will be impacted. DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding.

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget:

"DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding."

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Y'all! Read, cite, and share @kpsinedu.bsky.social's new article! 👇Super proud of you, dude! #literacies

I’ve been engaging in digital civic inquiry with these brilliant young people for three years now, and I never want to stop! We’ve gotten to learn from and lean on each other during times when we need community and hope. Here are some insights from the experience…

Why spend 9 years of your life writing a children's book? Because children's books are the books that make us readers. They shape us at the deepest levels & they stay with us forever. They're the most important books of all – and kids deserve nothing less than the very best books of all!

Always grateful for new scholarship out in the world

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Whenever I talk to kids in schools, their eyes light up the moment I say the word "manga". When they understand that reading manga counts as reading - reading is suddenly cool and exciting! Here's few I've been recommended by kids themselves (and enjoyed myself!) #KidLitUK #literacy

Teen artists portrayed their lives — some adults didn't want to see the full picture "What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

PEN: Mightier Than the Book Bans | This Way Out Radio Episode #1947 | LISTEN NOW on our website, podcasts everywhere, and community radio stations around the world. Just how far is it from book bans to bonfires? PEN America’s Los Angeles Director Allison Lee tracks the alarming censorship trend across the U.S. and how to stand up against it (interviewed by Jason ...

Just how far is it from book bans to bonfires? On the latest edition of @thiswayoutradio.bsky.social, PEN America’s Los Angeles Director Allison Lee tracks the alarming censorship trend across the U.S. and how to stand up against it (interviewed by Jason Jenn). www.thiswayout.org/post/this-wa...

The pandemic as a portal: Asian American teachers and racial reckoning During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, racialized violence and racial uprising affected many educators, students, and communities. Attention to the impact of the pandemic’s rhetoric, and the c...

This may be my favorite solo-authored piece ever, using found poetry, word clouds and narrative to contribute to a portrait of two #AsianAmerican teachers and their experiences with racialization prior to and through the COVID-19 pandemic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Congratulations to Dr. Kierstin Giunco! Dr. Giunco received her Ph.D. last semester from Boston College and is a member of our SIG. Interested in learning more about her dissertation? Check out this video: recorder.google.com/285c624d-35e... #PhinisheD

New publication 🎉🎉. In this piece, I explore how six teenage boys coauthored imaginative worlds together through RPG play. In particular, I examine innovative moments of “liminal play” when the game, rules, and real-world blurred together. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Debunking the Myths: Responding to the Most Common Arguments for Book Censorship Book censorship arguments often disguise efforts to erase diverse voices. Responding with facts, empathy, and First Amendment values helps protect everyone’s right to read.

Defending the freedom to read does not forfeit your right as a parent to discuss and set boundaries with your children, but it protects against someone else or the government taking that opportunity away from you.

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This afternoon, the Trump administration officially shut down the LGBTQ Youth Specialized Services program within the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The program allowed callers under 25 to speak with counselors trained to support LGBTQ youth, an option that has now been eliminated.

Fighting Words: On The Autocratic Capture of Education I have a BS in English Education, an MS in Curriculum & Instruction, and a PhD in Language and Literacy Education—degrees that taught me to decode complex texts, meet students where they are, and trai...

New op-ed in Fulcrum!

Drawing on my background in Literacy Education, the op-ed demonstrates how autocratic regimes follow a predictable pattern: they don't just change policies, they manipulate the vocabulary we use to discuss those policies. #literacies #edusky

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MAGA hates education

For two decades now, I have worked with my fifth grade colleagues to build a literacy curriculum that weaves together reading and writing instruction with the kind of work that helps kids understand the ways in which we can use reading and writing to create positive change in the world.

The TROUBLING Teacher Union Connection to Open AI, Microsoft, and Anthropic - Nancy Bailey's Education Website The AFT and UFT have signed an agreement with Open AI, Microsoft, and Anthropic to fund AI teacher training, stating that this will put teachers in the driving seat. Why worry? Here's a list of concer...

What good can come from teacher unions joining forces with tech companies and the Trump administration, which have worked to undermine teachers and public schools, to integrate AI into schools? nancyebailey.com/2025/07/15/t...

A coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration, demanding the release of $6.8 billion in education funding that has been unlawfully withheld.

DEI offices shuttered, costs mount as Ohio universities comply with SB 1 Schools across the state are eliminating DEI offices, restructuring programs, and implementing new course requirements.

COLUMBUS OH - Ohio’s public universities are spending millions to comply w/Senate Bill 1 as the sweeping law forces institutions to dismantle diversity offices, cut academic programs & overhaul operations across all 37 public colleges & universities
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We've been saying this for decades. 🤦🏾‍♀️ It's almost like defunding the arts and humanities education has had an effect!

An Unserious Book Sal Khan brings an infomercial to a (supposed) revolution with "Brave New Words."

An Unserious Book
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Brenda and Dylan

Oh, life. It's bigger. Bigger than you, and you are not me.
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There are a lot of folks in education loudly arguing that we need to move faster, faster, faster.

And I can tell you, from the classroom perspective, that anyone saying this definitely has NOT been in a classroom for some time.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Ohio State Board of Education to shrink to 5 appointed members Gov. Mike DeWine allowed the provision become law Monday without a veto.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -The 19-member Ohio State Board of Education will be reduced to just five members, all appointed by the governor, under a provision in the new state budget that Gov. Mike DeWine allowed to become law late Monday without a veto.
by Laura Hancock
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Recommended: Teacher Education: Time to listen to the experts again (UK) In the US, teacher education as well as teachers have suffered a long history of low respect and support. A significant aspect of that dynamic, I think, is that the profession in over 70% women. Du…

Recommended: Teacher Education: Time to listen to the experts again (UK) radicalscholarship.com/2025/06/27/r...

Today!! If you haven’t signed the petition to repeal SB 1 there will be folks collecting signatures at the event (today is the last day to sign)! Come show your support for public education in Ohio ✊

We pause to honor the extraordinary contributions of Dr. Kylene Beers to NCTE and the literacy field.

Kylene spurred our leadership forward at every turn. Many recognize her as a giant, and she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and as a proud member of the Middle Level section.