Stephanie Reid

So many congratulations to you!!!

Literacy Research Association Early Career Achievement Award presentation photograph

I am grateful to be the 2025 recipient of the Literacy Research Association's Early Career Achievement Award. #LRA2025 I also wish to express my thankfulness to each of the colleagues who supported my recognition.

Red Graphic showing a 38% decrease in Ohio State international student enrollment versus a 3% increase in Michigan, criticizing SB 1's impact on Ohio.

Is Ohio really better than ❌ichigan? Not with SB 1, the Higher Education Destruction Act, in play.

We are falling behind, and the culprit is SB1. This outrageous law is actively driving prospective local, out-of-state, and international students outside of Ohio.

#RepealSB1 #OhioState

So proud of this. Anna’s been gone 2ish years and I still can’t hardly believe it most weeks, but we made this with our brilliant author-friends, and it is good.

We wanted to title it: Wicked Writing but were told the SEO want great.

Great gift for secondary writing teachers.

Censorship related sessions - NCTE Convention 2025 Thursday 11:30-12:45 Intellectual Freedom Dreams Deferred: Banned in the "Blue(ish) States" Room 203 2:30 English/ELA Department Chairs Facing Tough Topics Together Room 402 Friday 9:30a-11a The...

Headed to #NCTE2025? This doc has the sessions related to censorship! The bolded sessions feature members from @ncte.org's Committee Against Censorship.

The book banners are on the wrong side of history, but we need community, solidarity, and strategy to make that happen. Join us in the work.

Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...

PEN America mourns the death of beloved author and disability activist Alice Wong. A brilliant writer, Alice used her voice and platform to amplify disability media & culture, whether through the Disability Visibility Project or editing the anthology Disability Visibility www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels.

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

Happy to share this new #literacies piece with @sarahejerasa.bsky.social comparing ways that content is suggested and circulated across platforms like TikTok and Webtoon. It was fun to think with frameworks of sponsorship and to talk about webcomics, which I love!

Mark your calendars for Tuesday's #literacies chat with @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social. Let's talk fandoms!

CDC reports 40% of teens struggle with mental health as Ohio expands response services National data shows that 40% of teens struggle with mental health issues. Against that backdrop, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced access to crisis response teams is now available statewide for young pe...

Overall, 40% of high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness during the past year, according to 2024 data from the Centers for Disease Control.
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Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025 A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.

Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.

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2025 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Honors 33 Incarcerated Writers in 20 States for Poetry, Fiction, Essay, Memoir, and Drama Note: Winners and Judges in the following states: CA, CO, GA, FL, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA (NEW YORK)— Thirty-three incarcerated writers from 20 states have been ...

The Prison and Justice Writing Program announces the 33 winners of the 2025 PEN Prison Writing Awards! The PWAs honor work created in carceral facilities nationwide in the areas of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Read the full announcement here: pen.org/press-releas...

Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social

Why Philip Pullman’s Books Are More Important Than Ever in Speaking Truth to Power When we first encounter Lyra Silvertongue, neé Belacqua, she is hidden in a wardrobe and listening intently to her uncle, Lord Asriel, give a presentation to Oxford scholars on his findings about D…

"Throughout these adventures, Pullman assembles a motley crew of characters who not only challenge power, but the rigid social and gendered expectations imposed on them by those powers."

#TheRoseField is out today, I'm so excited!!

@literaryhub.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

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Banning books is not the end, but you can see it from here.

Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy This eighth edition of Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy, a foundational text in literacy research, is updated to represent a new era in contemporary and critical scholarship. With a revise...

This volume is scheduled for release in early November. Pre-order and save!

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Why schools need libraries and librarians like Mr. Biddle How our school library and its book club focused on banned books changed us for the better.

Two high schoolers wrote a love letter about their high school librarian and the banned books club they're part of. This is really moving and thoughtful and a reminder that kids know exactly what the hell is going on right now.

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Ready for our next #literacies chat? Please join us in one week for our chat where we consider “Let’s Talk about Interdisciplinary #literacies” hosted by Dr. Matthew R. Deroo (@deroomat.bsky.social)!

Announcing our August #literacies chat, “Let’s Talk about Interdisciplinary #literacies,” hosted by @deroomat.bsky.social! We can’t wait to see you there!

Just in case you haven't seen it:

The Books Unbanned project has public libraries from various places in the US offering teen readers digital cards and access to their digital titles.

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary

booksunbanned.com#resources

Velshi Banned Book Club: Author Angie Thomas and a big win against censorship in Florida In August of 2024, a group of publishers, students, parents, and best-selling authors including Velshi Banned Book Club vets like Julia Alvarez, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jodi Picoult, and Angie Thomas f...

“We pushed back, and we won.”

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It’s (a)live!!

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