Luke Muscat

My article, “On The Move: Embodied Literacy and Symbolic Thought in Early Childhood,” was published in the Early Childhood Education Journal of the Alberta Teachers Association! The full issue can be accessed on their website #phdlife #earlychildhoodeducation #literacy

Block play is often associated with STEM and less with the Self. Blocks teach children to rebuild, to reimagine, to try again when all feels lost. Blocks teach us about stagnancy and grit - that sometimes our walls must fall for us to grow, albeit overwhelming at first #education

Often I measure the emotional climate of my preschool class by the amount of spontaneous singing ❤️ #joy #earlychildhoodeducation #teachertwitter

Prek-12 teachers who are also in #PhD programs anytime there is a school break rather then resting 🫠🫣😫#teachertwitter #AcademicTwitter

I am shattered. My heart breaks for so many, myself, my family and friends, and Mother Earth. Beyond all of that, who I cannot stop crying for is all the babies who will be born into this world, with no families and dead mothers, with no future and homes, and on a burning planet.

@wargojon I wish I was going! It’s during my last week of school with my kiddos, so I can’t fly out of the country. Last year I was able to swing it because Buffalo is so close for me. I did apply to AERA and will be attending Ethnography in Education at UPenn in February, though!

The older I get, the more critical pos-humanist I get in my thinking, theorizing, pedagogy, and methodology. Is this 30? 🤣 #phdtwitter #teachertwitter

I looooove group #fitness and online fitness classes, but I wish #trainers would stop saying “you just did more work in [x]-minutes than others do in a week.” We can be motivated and feel proud without putting others down and without downplaying the complexity of people’s lives.

@stephhladik Yes!!!

@Luke_Puke5 Sometimes I read something I wrote like a year previously and I’m surprised and impressed at my own writing. Like, way to go past me!

#phd candidates, ever have writing amnesia?! I’ve been plugging away, writing the dissertation, and opened an old file for a tentative manuscript and found ALL this other writing I did! No recollection whatsoever of writing it Thank you, me, for being me! #phdchat

@wargojon Woaaaaah, thank you Jon! Your support and encouragement means so much - I am very grateful!

Excited to share my sole-authored paper, “Turning Points Along Embodied Pathways: Bringing Forth Children’s Voices Through Artistic Ways of Listening,” tomorrow at #ISLS2024! The short paper is viewable at: doi.org/10.22318/icls2…

Officially Dr. Paulina M. Gutkin! Incredibly grateful for everyone who made this dream a reality🎉Thanks @MedicalCollege for the opportunity of a lifetime Can’t wait to start my surgical training at @StanfordGenSurg!

Received a #HappyMothersDay message from a student’s parent because, “Mothering comes in multiple genders” 🥹🥹🥹 #teachertwitter

Part of supporting families is helping them to see children’s conflict as important to relationship building. Through conflict and repair, children teach others how they want to be treated and show others they respect their boundaries. Friendship in EC is so readily romanticized.

Me trying to tie the smallest thread ever to link a bracelet on a 4-year-old’s wrist: “I don’t know if I can get this knot” 4-year-old child: “You got this.” 🥹 #teachertwitter

After explaining why I will be absent to attend #AERA2024 and that I’m a kind of scientist who studies learning, one of my preschool students says, “yeah… because Mr. Muscat cares about how we learn” 🥹 #phdtwitter #teachertwitter

Filled with joy #AERA2024

Prof @krisgu chaired this #AERA2024 Presidential Session, "Toward the Fulfillment of Full Personhood: The Persistent Invisibility of Latinx Communities Across Institutions and Educational Scholarship 3.0" in a reconvening of intergenerational Latinx scholars. #BerkeleyAERA24

So proud and grateful to present my sole-authored paper, “Turning points along embodied pathways: Bringing forth children’s voices through artistic ways of listening,” at #isls2024 in Buffalo! Here’s to centering children’s voices through artistic and methodological innovation!

@XTxmTU I’ll be there!!!

#AERA24 My two first-authored papers got accepted! 1) Understanding How Roles Mediate Young Children’s Science Learning within an Embodied Mixed Reality Environment; 2)Teaching with Representations: Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions See all of you next year!