I gave a talk on mentorship at #LSA2020 and I want to shout out all the amazing linguists who continue to help guide my developing career! @sonjalanehart and Anne Curzan continue to be chief, and I had wonderful, supportive talks with @rmqueen and @shelomegooden too.

Welp, one #LSA2020 casualty is my laptop charger which is in the Starboard room at the hotel. Fortunately, I have three computers, so guess I'm just rocking it old school on my desktops for a couple of days.

Awesome ideas being discussed at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning event at #LSA2020 thanks to @BSULinguist and team! Really happy to be a part of this emerging community!

My "I could care fewer" shirt is very popular around town 😂 #LSA2020

Not conferencing today in favor of wandering around the city a bit, but grateful for all the Twitter coverage! #LSA2020

Final words from @ACharityHudley "We can do this work! I know we can." #LSA2020

Quomment from @careerlinguist These comments about needing to teach people in power how to be vulnerable. Thank you for such an inspiring, and strategically oriented way forward. -ACH #LSA2020

ACH: We build our unrderstandings around the intellectual frame of what it means to be a professional linguist: a good person, citizen, and scholar. #LSA2020

NYU faculty: I am not American, so I didn't know about HBCUs and the culture of national education in the US. Can you speak about representing an American university abroad? ACH Plenary #LSA2020

ACH: we have to interrogate directly the practices going on in schools of education. We have to have a one-to-one conversation. In that southern activist tradition, we have to go school to school. One to one. Who's gonna do Xavier? UNO? etc. #LSA2020

Q: As an educator, I learned so much. Lx was never a course in undergrad, MA, and even Ph.D. But it has a big impact in the classroom. How do we get more of these courses into the educational settings where our future teachers are at? #LSA2020

"We need the conceptual and activist baggage to deal with that and take it down. I don't really have the words to express my admiration. So I can only say go forward with it." --Spears -ACH #LSA2020

"Thank you for calling this what it is...once we place it in institutionalized white supremacist framework we can begin to see clearly the level with which it is entrenched and it is all about the struggle" --Spears (slight paraphrase) -ACH #LSA2020

ACH We have to think about partnering with other departments, places where studetns are going, especially minoritized students. We have to have a disciplinary approach. #LSA2020

Q from @kirbyconrod: How does this conversation extend down to uplifiting all minoritized scholars, outside of lx and outside higher ed? #LSA2020

I am SUCKING at getting the attribution for the Q&A askers and I'm sorry! mea culpa! I'm trying. #LSA2020

The next grant is faculty-centered. MIT, tOSU, Michigan, UMBC, NC A&T, and UCSB about how to win over administrator buy-in, and change the system. -ACH #LSA2020

WE can do this work of making room proactively rather than reactively. Multiple modes of evaluation of teaching. Teaching philosophy, syllabi, student artifacts. Not just student evals or peer evals. -ACH #LSA2020

TFW you look up to see a Black scholar at the mic when you had your head in your twitter and just heard her voice and assumed she was white. This is the work, y'all. #LSA2020

How do students choose where they are on the model? ACH: first we coded and created the model, but now we are starting to talk with students about where they think they fall on it now that it is developed. -ACH #LSA2020

Whew. Q&A Time. -ACH #LSA2020

What to do now? Find your allies. Pick one approach. Find the money. Listen to current members of your department from underrepresented communities! -ACH #LSA2020

How can you share this information with someone? How can you make those people feel real and more whole? -ACH #LSA2020

And then we tailor our work not just in AAE courses but in all our work, interactions, mentoring, etc. to uplift these identities -ACH #LSA2020

We need to think about this as a dialogic model with faculty. How we as lxs and educators approach our student with info that powers them linguistically and racially and respects their identity. -ACH #LSA2020

Students who speak MUSE and don't know AAE: "I know I'm being judged in every classroom, on my research, in how I dress, etc." -ACH #LSA2020

Sometimes students don't even know what features are which but keep plugging along in the Standardized narrative. "Our TA was learning to become a teacher, so she still used AAE" -ACH #LSA2020

Student who are amazing at AAE and at MUSE: Student gets complimented on reading the Bible. "Were you expecting me to be bad at reading???" (paraphrase) -ACH #LSA2020

Student who is an AAE user and MUSE user "I was talking about hat and I said "finna" and this white girl was like Finna? What is that. An I was lookin at her like, I know you went to school in NC, you know finna!" (paraphrase of ACH data. get her slides. ) -ACH #LSA2020

Students who speak AAE and are unbothered: "They gonna treat me like a nigga regardless so I might as well act- I'm sorry. They gone treat me like a Black regardless." -ACH #LSA2020