Michael J. Young, Ph. D.

Image announcing the 2025 Whippoorwill Book Award winner and honor books. This year, we announce one (1) winner and nine (9) honor books: 2025 Award Winner: -John Cochran, Breaking into Sunlight, Little Brown Honor Books (listed in alphabetical order by author last name): -Tom Birdseye, There is No Map for This, Groundwood Books -K.A. Cobell, Looking for Smoke, Heartdrum -Mike Deas & Nancy Deas, Crystal Cave, Orca -Erin Hahn, Even if it Breaks Your Heart, Wednesday Books -Trina Rathgeber, Alina Pete, & Jillian Dolan, Lost at Windy River, Orca -Mason Stokes, All the Truth I Can Stand, Calkins Creek/Astra Books -Jennifer Torres, Vega’s Piece of the Sky, Little Brown -Jenna Voris, Every Time You Hear That Song, Viking/Penguin

Announcing the 2025 Whippoorwill Book Award Winner and Honor Books! #iteachenglish #edusky #academicsky

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🚨🚨 New Publication Alert: Structured, Scripted, and Erased: An Invitation to Recast the Science to Cultivate a Humanity of Readers. 🚨🚨 doi.org/10.33600/IRC... #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish

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Illinois Teachers! Join us for the 2025 Illinois State Literacy Conference at Illinois State University. Register at tinyurl.com/ROE17PD. #edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish

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Today is the day. #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish

I believe some may be, but not all.

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Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish

Promotional flyer for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium with keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. The event to be held at UW-Eau Claire. Please visit: https://bit.ly/4iNXwQN for additional information.

Join us for the 2025 Wisconsin Literacy Research Symposium this summer as we look at shifting the power to humanize literacy policy and practice. Keynote speakers: Drs. Elena Aydarova, Crystal Wise, and Michael Young. bit.ly/4iNXwQN #literacy #literacyresearch #academicsky #edusky #iteachEnglish

I 🫶 my governor. Most days.

ISU and faculty union reach tentative deal, averting strike Illinois State University and its faculty union reached a tentative agreement Friday that will avert a strike that could have begun at any moment. Terms of the deal were not immediately clear.

Congratulations to 650 faculty from United Faculty of Illinois State/University Professionals of Illinois who have their first contract today! This contract will bring transformative change for faculty, students, and community at ISU.✊🎉 www.wglt.org/local-news/2...

Behold the power of collective action! Strike avoided with a tentative agreement between the faculty union and #IllinoisStateUniversity admin. #edusky #academicsky

Students must stand in solidarity with United Faculty of ISU Students are a crucial part to Illinois State University. UFISU fights for us, so we must fight for them, too.

Faculty standing up for students. Students standing up for faculty. Standing together to hold a university administration accountable to its community. This is the power of organizing. This is teaching and learning in community. #academicsky #edusky comradefranson.substack.com/p/students-m...

Illinois State University Is Facing a Potential Faculty Strike Elite institutions of higher education tend to grab most headlines. But non-elite public colleges have dealt with relentless austerity for decades — which is why Illinois State University faculty just...

It has been many years since I signed my first #union card. Today, I am a proud member of the ISU union as we continue to stand up to a university administration that must be held accountable to the community it serves. #strongertogether #academicsky #edusky #unionstrong jacobin.com/2025/03/illi...

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Centering Readers Means Centering Equity

Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D. - College of Education | University of South Carolina

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United Faculty of ISU (UFISU) members voted overwhelmingly last week to authorize a strike, and our union officially filed the required Intent to Strike notice today with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. With the legally required 10-day notice filed, members may go on strike as early as April 4. The filing does not mean that the 650 members represented by UFISU will definitely go on strike, but allows the union to do so, if needed. The parties are scheduled to bargain again with the assistance of a federal mediator on March 28, April 2, and April 4. Critical items still to be resolved include workloads that allow for adequate time to interact with students, fair compensation, leave policies for new parents and caregivers, and university commitments for student mental health support. “As faculty, we are dedicated to ensuring that our students get the high-quality education and services they deserve," said Dr. Derek M. Sparby, Associate Professor of English. "To continue to attract and retain world-class educators at ISU, this administration must bargain a fair agreement that shows they value our faculty and recognize what our students need to reach their potentials here at ISU. If President Tarhule and his team want to avoid a strike, they need to fulfill their responsibilities to this university and its students immediately."

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United Faculty of ISU members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, and our union officially filed the required Intent to Strike notice with the IL Educational Labor Relations Board. With the legally required 10-day notice filed, members may go on strike as early as April 4. www.ufisu-upi.org

Twiddling your thumbs while waiting to hear whether Columbia will negotiate with a higher-ed kidnapper?

Give this a read. Several wonderful Teachers College faculty and I wrote about how we see this moment in Us education across the life span.

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This is the way.

This one’s for all the university admins complying in advance: there is another way.

‘When the state looks at you’: administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching Elementary literacy education policy continues to centre intensified use of standardised testing in the early elementary grades across the United States. The increase of datafication in schooling w...

🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published (open access) in Whiteness and Education: doi.org/10.1080/2379... #academicsky #edusky #iteachenglish @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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I conclude by considering how these influences work to administer whiteness in the name of literacy.

the findings highlight the ways white teachers responded to networks of surveillance, the salience of whiteness in these responses, and how literacy teaching was then shaped through the polic(y)ing of literacy and literacy teaching as something to be administered.

In this article, I examine the influences of high stakes testing, education policy, surveillance, and whiteness on literacy teaching. Informed by Foucault’s disciplinary power, critical race theory in education, and critical whiteness studies,

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🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 'When the State looks at you’: Administering whiteness through surveillance, affect, and efficiency in elementary literacy teaching. Published in Whiteness and Education: dx.doi.org/10.1080/2379... (Open Access).

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New Rule: When you receive a peer-reviewed article acceptance you’ve labored over for years, you must Ted Lasso Carlton. ✅

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.

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That I just submitted a new manuscript feeling.