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Whippoorwill Book Award @whippoorwillaward.bsky.social · 17d

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

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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

Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · 24d

We're searching for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Bilingual-BiCultural Education. Come work with us! #edusky #academicsky jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/en-us/job/52...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education | Jobs | Illinois State

Search Illinois State job listings and apply for open positions that match your skills and career goals.

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Sep 20

🚨🚨 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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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Jul 15

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

Poster for the 2025 Illinois State Literacy Conference. For more information, please visit tinyurl.com/ROE17PD.

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Jun 14

I believe some may be, but not all.

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · May 11

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.

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · May 11

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

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · May 4

I 🫶 my governor. Most days.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · May 4

May the fourth be with you, Illinois.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Apr 8

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...

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.

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Apr 5

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

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Apr 2

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...

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.

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 29

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...

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...

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 25

Centering Readers Means Centering Equity

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

Register in advance for this free webinar: minnstate.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#edusky #academicsky #iteachenglish

Poster describing webinar: Centering Readers Means Centering Equity, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Ed.D. - College of Education | University of South

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

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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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · Mar 21

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.

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 14

This is the way.

Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · Mar 14

I refuse to vote for Republicans’ slush fund bill that grants Trump and Elon Musk permission to continue rigging our government and our economy against the middle class.

It would greenlight even more chaos and more cuts to critical programs.

Hell no, I cannot support that.

Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 8

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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · Mar 6

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

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · Mar 6

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 3

🚨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

‘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...

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 1

#edusky #academicsky

Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 1

🚨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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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 1

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

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 1

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.

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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 1

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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Michael J. Young, Ph. D. @suupermichael.bsky.social · Mar 1

🚨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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