Clara Abbott

Absolutely loved chairing this #LRA2025 panel - so much powerful child-centered #literacies research happening right now! Thank you @zach-ryan.bsky.social @brownellcassie.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social Mandy Shimizu and Haeny Yoon for sharing your brilliance!

So glad you could come to the session! Thank you 🙂

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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

There were so many highlights of #NCTE25 but the peak was absolutely presenting alongside my 7th grade English teacher. Here’s to the roots running so deep.

If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social

this was one of my biggest FOMO moments of AERA 2025! such a great concept.

see you there!

They are so fun to make and a great way to make sense of whatever you're thinking/wondering about. Makes me think an AERA 2026 @writinglit.bsky.social zine-making session could be very cool...

If only I had an NWA leg tacked onto my thanksgiving visit to St. Louis...I would do this in a heartbeat!

This meme is just the ideal encapsulation of this dynamic, haha! So good

yes please! #literacies fandom communities materializing in real time from this chat...

An expo-like event where students table and can hand out or trade zines that they made about their interests. We brought in parents and friends to come too. What's special is that kids can discuss their artistic process and put their work in context in a very organic and celebratory way!

A6: After doing a photovoice project with my students as an elementary teacher, I learned so much about their #literacies through the images they took (even though this wasn't even the original project aim!). With that in mind, would love to keep experimenting with photo journals in the classroom!

Muñoz is one of my favorite theorists ever! Very inspired by the way you take up his ideas to think about #literacies

A3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies

A5: I think about this tension so much when thinking about arts-based #literacies more broadly, and I see one path forward as empowering students to lead the design of a unit or activity so they can bring the practice to life in context. I think a plug and play approach can often lead to deadening!

A4: I've used a zine fair model with children before and I see lots of cool intersections with this idea! One element I love is how children and youth are framed as experts in their fandoms, and have an authentic audience for sharing their #literacies

I would love to hear some good housewives podcasts recs!

A3: On the "fandoms" channel on the Write4Change Discord server, it is so cool to see youth imagining characters in ways that disrupt their representation in the media, especially imagining and drawing characters in queer relationships and gender-bending. #literacies

Would love to hear about the musical screenplays - that sounds very epic!

This is so cool! This reminds me that one of my former colleagues led a D&D club for kids at the elementary school we worked at. It seemed like a really important space for this group of kids to experiment taking on new roles and identities as well

A2: I love this question! As a teen, I loved scrolling on arts and creative blogs on Tumblr and Pinterest, and that has no doubt contributed to my interest in the intersections between the arts and the digital and arts based #literacies of youth.

Ah, I'm so glad - the #hackyourstack Notion page has been amazing – have shared it out with many colleagues and collaborators. Can't wait to hear what you've been up to with zines!

Looking forward to seeing you again at #NCTE25 this week!

A1: I am continually inspired by Dr. Grace D Player's work with the Simmering Spices art collective, thinking about the relational, curatorial and imaginative #literacies of Girls of Color. As an arts-based scholar, this is the kind of meaningful participatory work I really aspire to.

So excited to chat with you both!

Hi everyone! My name is Clara Abbott (she/her) - I am a 3rd year doctoral candidate (🥳 ) at University of Pennsylvania & a graduate student board member of @writinglit.bsky.social. Excited to take part in this #literacies chat!

Me! See you there

Doing the NCTE and LRA double-header again this year! See you all in Denver and Vegas ✈️ #literacies

Our team met this morning to discuss and plan ways we can move forward the ideas from the #Literacies homecoming chat. We've got some exciting things in the works! @clarabbott.bsky.social @lexikwoodward.bsky.social @nicolermisra.bsky.social @carolinebr.bsky.social @kpsinedu.bsky.social