Hello Friends! Looking for ideas from you all for potential read-alongs or replacements for: Antigone, Of Mice & Men, The Crucible, and Frankenstein. I’ve got some ideas but want to hear what you all have in mind. #booktalk #DisruptTexts #EnglishLanguageLiterature
ISO of quotes, essays, articles that speak to the importance of making art / creating / imagination during dark times. Let me know what you have and I'll share as well.
(also, still getting my footing around here and not sure with # s to use? #edusky #DisruptTexts #ELA ?)
I'm going to combine numbers 49 and 50 to say that I have always been amazed and inspired to see all that @triciaebarvia.bsky.social and @lorenagerman.bsky.social have achieved w/ #DisruptTexts I can't remember if that had started when I first was following each of them, wonderful to see it evolve.
SOUNDS LIKE YOU WANNA HAVE A #DisruptTexts CHAT 👀
Photograph of the cover of bell hooks’ book, Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.
“Looking at the reasons patriarchy has maintained its power over men and their lives, I urge us to reclaim feminism for men… Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving.” - bell hooks #DisruptTexts #Reading
Putting final touches on our “Literacy is Love Work” session tomorrow! 🔥 Come see us at 3:30, room 258B #DisruptTexts #NCTE24
A4: I have colleagues who are also very close friends. I know I can count on them.
Online communities that "fill my cup": #THEBOOKCHAT, #DisruptTexts, @sheathescholar.bsky.social & Jess Lifshitz's Rainbow Summer, #TeachLivingPoets, and Lorena & Roberto German's Multicultural Classroom #theedcollab
Just here to say hey to #DisruptTexts #CleartheAir #TeachLivingPoets & #THEBOOKCHAT. It’s good to be reunited or to meet you if you’re new to me!
Things I adore:
1. Flint, MI.
2. Literacy edu.
3. Disrupting white supremacy
4. Survivor
5. Tacos
Free Palestine! Free Congo! Free Sudan! Free Haiti!
The meaning of the song in its original context matters in how we understand it, but that doesn't mean we need to *keep* singing the original or replaying it uncritically when the context has shifted.
See also: #DisruptTexts
Happy to be back with The Big Questions Institute! Join me on 11/20 for this free webinar as I share some of my favorite perspective-taking strategies for deepening and expanding student understanding. #LetsGetFree #DisruptTexts www.bqi.community/c/events/fre...
Did I mention that THURSDAY at 8:30PM EST I will be talking about this great text and I hope people will join me... I also thinking about a January Book Study if anyone is interested... More Details to come. #liftingliteracy #disrupttexts #GetFree @triciaebarvia.bsky.social
In just over a week's time I will be chatting about this book with
@triciaebarvia.bsky.social
and anyone else who wants to join us. I have not yet settled on a single platform, might post questions everywhere and folks can respond where they are most comfortable. #liftingliteracy #disrupttexts
Cover images of Textured Teaching by Lorena Germán, Literacy is Liberation by Dr. Kim Parker, Liven up your Library by Julia Torres and Valerie Tagoe, and Get Free by Tricia Ebarvia
Book spines of Textured Teaching by Lorena Germán, Literacy is Liberation by Dr. Kim Parker, Liven up your Library by Julia Torres and Valerie Tagoe, and Get Free by Tricia Ebarvia
#DisruptTexts completed this week!
As I joyfully read through @triciaebarvia.bsky.social book, I am blown away by the quality learning opportunities it provides. The message is important, and the materials are incredible. Order it. And join us to chat about it in a few weeks. #GetFree #liftingliteracy #DisruptTexts
Favorite poems to use with 11-12 year olds?! #TeachLivingPoets #DisruptTexts
Thanks in part to the folks at #DisruptTexts, I’m able to see (and teach) how communities of color work outside of Western individualism to craft narratives that center community and collective healing. I think #Encanto would make a beautiful addition to a Hero’s Journey unit.
Diverse voices were/are always needed in schools.
Folks go through all their years of schooling never witnessing the full humanity of Black, Brown, and queer people and now they’re at school board meetings protesting that this representation is perverse.
#DisruptTexts
My students and I started Long Way Down this week. Students who previously read reluctantly or not at all are analyzing literary devices and meaning & making text to text + world + self connections. They’re doing rigorous work and they haven’t stopped thinking. #DisruptTexts
Julia Torres and #DisruptTexts #edchat #engchat #literacy #poetry
Educators: a friend's elementary K-5 school wants to buy diverse books to diversify their school library. What books would you recommend she get? Thanks in advance! cc: #DisruptTexts #librarytwitter #librarians #SchoolLibraryMonth #librarylife #TEACHers #teachertwitter #educolor
My kids just watched the Trevor Noah interview with Jason Reynolds. I asked them what I thought were engaging questions, but they can’t get past the fact that Reynolds is a Black man. They’ve never read a book written by a Black man in school.
#DisruptTexts
I’ve got a #DisruptTexts read of the hero’s journey coming up in this watch of Moana, y’all. #ChampionshipWatch
The idea that Black literary genius is only found in relationship to white, Western writing is absurd and dangerous. The relationship between Baldwin and Shakespeare isn’t as rich as the relationship between Baldwin and my own Black experience in America. #DisruptTexts
Shout out to #disruptTexts, The BrownBookshelf and The Conscious Kid #edchat #literacy #engchat
“I love this book because I see myself and a story like mine. I think it’s a mirror.” -My student about The House on Mango Street
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
#DisruptTexts
At the end of class, some Chinese Sts & others who have lived in Beijing wouldn’t leave my room. They wanted to chat about lang & culture as represented in ’A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’. This is why reading literature where Sts see themselves is so vital. #DisruptTexts
2020: A Year in Review | #DisruptTexts #edchat #engchat
