Scott Storm
@scottstorm.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Literacy in a School of Education | Former English teacher who designed and sustained public high schools | Social Justice Pedagogies | Adolescent Literacies | Critical Aesthetics | Machine Learning | Nerd | (he/him) 🏳️🌈
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Scott Storm
@scottstorm.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Excited my new book written with @karismjones.bsky.social is in print!! It shows how to design classrooms that are fun and intellectual by drawing on strengths of fan communities. Bring some Comic Con magic to your classroom! Request that your library get copies! #literacies #edusky #ITeachEnglish
Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Thank you everyone for such an exciting #literacies chat tonight!! If you are headed to NCTE in Denver this week, we would love to connect with you there to continue the conversation!
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Interested to dive deeper into fandoms in the classroom? Check out @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book! #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Interested to dive deeper into fandoms in the classroom? Check out @karismjones.bsky.social and @scottstorm.bsky.social's book! #literacies
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A6: If you’re at #NCTE2025, join us to experience some of these ideas live! 💡(we will sign your book!) @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A6: If you’re at #NCTE2025, join us to experience some of these ideas live! 💡(we will sign your book!) @scottstorm.bsky.social #literacies
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
Date and Time: Friday 11/21/2025 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM MST
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B
A6: I’m thinking about what it would look like to bring pre-service teachers to fandom-focused literacy classrooms. College and high school students collaboratively investigating, analyzing, and writing about fandoms together could be a next frontier to explore! #literacies
Q6: How do you envision inviting youth #literacies into classroom spaces? What would you like to try?
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A6: I’m thinking about what it would look like to bring pre-service teachers to fandom-focused literacy classrooms. College and high school students collaboratively investigating, analyzing, and writing about fandoms together could be a next frontier to explore! #literacies
A5: Classrooms can easily feel like “doing school” with a focus on compliance. Instead, support students to follow their intellectual passions! Give choice about what texts to read, work to produce, and questions to pursue. I’ve seen this work in diverse and inclusive public schools! #literacies
Q5: An issue we've seen with integrating youth fandom #literacies into educational spaces is that these practices get co-opted or deadened. Have you seen this? How do we avoid these issues?
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A5: Classrooms can easily feel like “doing school” with a focus on compliance. Instead, support students to follow their intellectual passions! Give choice about what texts to read, work to produce, and questions to pursue. I’ve seen this work in diverse and inclusive public schools! #literacies
A4: This shift creates a more student-centered community. Instead of teachers spending time preparing lectures and worksheets, they facilitate a community where students use literacy to pursue intellectual interests, analyze a wide range of texts, and construct new knowledge together. #literacies
Q4: We invite teachers to take up a "comic convention" model of teaching as described below. What do you notice about this kind of classroom? How does it shift current instructional paradigms?
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A4: This shift creates a more student-centered community. Instead of teachers spending time preparing lectures and worksheets, they facilitate a community where students use literacy to pursue intellectual interests, analyze a wide range of texts, and construct new knowledge together. #literacies
A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies
Q3: What critical #literacies have you seen in fandom spaces? Here are some examples of issues we've identified!
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A3: Our book is about the high school class we designed where youth study fandoms—including franchises they love and texts fans produce. Our students used critical literacies to transform fandom spaces—for example, posting critiques of fandoms that relied on oppressive jokes. #literacies
A2: I’m a Dungeons & Dragons fan, but I wasn’t one until my high school students taught me how to play! I got to see how D&D can be used to imagine socially just worlds free from hate. My students helped show me the power of words and story to work to change the fabric of our realities. #literacies
Q2: In our book, we define fandoms as "communities of interested readers who engage with a particular text, text set, or media franchise." How have your own fandom experiences shaped your personal #literacies learning?
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
A2: I’m a Dungeons & Dragons fan, but I wasn’t one until my high school students taught me how to play! I got to see how D&D can be used to imagine socially just worlds free from hate. My students helped show me the power of words and story to work to change the fabric of our realities. #literacies
A1: Inspired by many scholars! @amystorn.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @ebonyteach.blacksky.app @anna-phd.bsky.social @dlowliteracy.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social @aleciamarie.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social Many more! #literacies
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social Many more! #literacies
Q1: This community has a long history of studying youth #literacies in out-of-school spaces. What #literacies scholarship or scholar inspires you?
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Greetings Literacies Chat! I’m Scott Storm (he/him). I taught high school English for 15 years in urban public schools—including one I helped to found! I’m now an assistant professor of literacy in the School of Education at the University at Albany, SUNY. All opinions my own. #literacies
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Greetings Literacies Chat! I’m Scott Storm (he/him). I taught high school English for 15 years in urban public schools—including one I helped to found! I’m now an assistant professor of literacy in the School of Education at the University at Albany, SUNY. All opinions my own. #literacies
#literacies chat starting now! So excited!
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November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#literacies chat starting now! So excited!
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Many thanks to CHOICE Magazine and A.L. Hsu for this review of our book in their July 2025 issue! We hope this is a compelling summer read for educators looking to disrupt their classrooms this fall 🔥 💻 💭
#literacies
@scottstorm.bsky.social
#literacies
@scottstorm.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Many thanks to CHOICE Magazine and A.L. Hsu for this review of our book in their July 2025 issue! We hope this is a compelling summer read for educators looking to disrupt their classrooms this fall 🔥 💻 💭
#literacies
@scottstorm.bsky.social
#literacies
@scottstorm.bsky.social
I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Disciplinary literacy explores knowledge-producing communities, but less often considers youth as scholars in their own right, particularly as related to English language arts. Drawing on theories of...
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
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Ready for our next #literacies chat? Please join us in one week for our chat where we consider “Queer and Trans-Affirming #literacies: Context, Discomfort, Agency” hosted by Dr. Stephanie Anne Shelton (@sashelton.bsky.social)!
June 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Ready for our next #literacies chat? Please join us in one week for our chat where we consider “Queer and Trans-Affirming #literacies: Context, Discomfort, Agency” hosted by Dr. Stephanie Anne Shelton (@sashelton.bsky.social)!
Can't wait to read this article in Reading Research Quarterly by @srtoliver.bsky.social The graphical abstract is 🔥🔥🔥
I’ve never done a “graphical abstract” for a paper before, but this is one for an article (Confronting Colonial Control: Afrofuturist Literacy Stances Versus Book Bans in the Battle for Spacetime) that will come out soon in RRQ (Reading Research Quarterly)!
June 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Can't wait to read this article in Reading Research Quarterly by @srtoliver.bsky.social The graphical abstract is 🔥🔥🔥
Love this Edutopia article by @cberwick.bsky.social on igniting student passions! Sage quotes from @amystorn.bsky.social & @anterobot.bsky.social. Examples from ELA teachers using fandoms! Nice shout out for @karismjones.bsky.social & my book! #literacies #iteachEnglish tinyurl.com/2s4r66rs
From Superheroes to Taylor Swift: Using Students’ Passions to Ignite Learning
By inviting students to dissect the texts they love—from music lyrics to horror films—teachers are unlocking deeper engagement and critical literacy skills.
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June 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Love this Edutopia article by @cberwick.bsky.social on igniting student passions! Sage quotes from @amystorn.bsky.social & @anterobot.bsky.social. Examples from ELA teachers using fandoms! Nice shout out for @karismjones.bsky.social & my book! #literacies #iteachEnglish tinyurl.com/2s4r66rs
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Next book tour stop: #AERA2025! Thanks to everyone who came to one of our fandom media presentations or stopped by the booth to get a book signed by me and @scottstorm.bsky.social
We love hearing from readers about ways they are dreaming about reimagining their literacy learning classrooms!
We love hearing from readers about ways they are dreaming about reimagining their literacy learning classrooms!
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Next book tour stop: #AERA2025! Thanks to everyone who came to one of our fandom media presentations or stopped by the booth to get a book signed by me and @scottstorm.bsky.social
We love hearing from readers about ways they are dreaming about reimagining their literacy learning classrooms!
We love hearing from readers about ways they are dreaming about reimagining their literacy learning classrooms!
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Thrilled to have the hard copy of this fantastic book from @karismjones.bsky.social & @scottstorm.bsky.social! Though I’m already very familiar with their scholarship, reading how they’ve framed their work for classroom Ts is inspiring. A fantastic example of research🤝practice. Highly recommend!
January 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Thrilled to have the hard copy of this fantastic book from @karismjones.bsky.social & @scottstorm.bsky.social! Though I’m already very familiar with their scholarship, reading how they’ve framed their work for classroom Ts is inspiring. A fantastic example of research🤝practice. Highly recommend!
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I'm so excited to read this new book by @scottstorm.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social! It combines my love of fandom with my love of ELA!
January 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I'm so excited to read this new book by @scottstorm.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social! It combines my love of fandom with my love of ELA!
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Creating intersections between Ss interests & complex disciplinary content always reminds me how much we underestimate teens.
Just had a Ss submit an 8-minute video essay using Freud, Lacan, & Jung to interpret Donnie Darko. Both the content & use of form were 🔥.
#literacies #edusky #academicsky
Just had a Ss submit an 8-minute video essay using Freud, Lacan, & Jung to interpret Donnie Darko. Both the content & use of form were 🔥.
#literacies #edusky #academicsky
December 5, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Creating intersections between Ss interests & complex disciplinary content always reminds me how much we underestimate teens.
Just had a Ss submit an 8-minute video essay using Freud, Lacan, & Jung to interpret Donnie Darko. Both the content & use of form were 🔥.
#literacies #edusky #academicsky
Just had a Ss submit an 8-minute video essay using Freud, Lacan, & Jung to interpret Donnie Darko. Both the content & use of form were 🔥.
#literacies #edusky #academicsky
Excited my new book written with @karismjones.bsky.social is in print!! It shows how to design classrooms that are fun and intellectual by drawing on strengths of fan communities. Bring some Comic Con magic to your classroom! Request that your library get copies! #literacies #edusky #ITeachEnglish
January 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Excited my new book written with @karismjones.bsky.social is in print!! It shows how to design classrooms that are fun and intellectual by drawing on strengths of fan communities. Bring some Comic Con magic to your classroom! Request that your library get copies! #literacies #edusky #ITeachEnglish
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Fun prompt: dreaming up proposal ideas about dreaming. After #ncte24, what would you like to see at #ncte25 and/or what are you dreaming up?
Thank you, @anterobot.bsky.social, incl for the inspiring design! convention.ncte.org/cfp/
Thank you, @anterobot.bsky.social, incl for the inspiring design! convention.ncte.org/cfp/
NCTE 2025 Call for Proposals
Submit your proposal for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention! Share innovative ideas and practices that empower educators to dream, collaborate, and inspire equity and justice in English language arts edu...
convention.ncte.org
November 27, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Fun prompt: dreaming up proposal ideas about dreaming. After #ncte24, what would you like to see at #ncte25 and/or what are you dreaming up?
Thank you, @anterobot.bsky.social, incl for the inspiring design! convention.ncte.org/cfp/
Thank you, @anterobot.bsky.social, incl for the inspiring design! convention.ncte.org/cfp/
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Friday is the deadline to apply for the #NCTE25 proposal reviewer and coach team: ncte.org/events/2025-...
January 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Friday is the deadline to apply for the #NCTE25 proposal reviewer and coach team: ncte.org/events/2025-...
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@alexcorbitt.bsky.social
and Mariana Becker’s piece about Roblox! They look carefully at issues of play and paywalls!! This paper is 🔥 🔥 🔥
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social
and Mariana Becker’s piece about Roblox! They look carefully at issues of play and paywalls!! This paper is 🔥 🔥 🔥
New publication🚨: Mariana Becker and I highlight moments of critical play where three Brazilian immigrant children used innovative practices to represent their transnational identities and resist Roblox paywalls that restrict player access. Read here: tinyurl.com/2a99446y
December 12, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Check out
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social
and Mariana Becker’s piece about Roblox! They look carefully at issues of play and paywalls!! This paper is 🔥 🔥 🔥
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social
and Mariana Becker’s piece about Roblox! They look carefully at issues of play and paywalls!! This paper is 🔥 🔥 🔥