Steven Zemelman

@AnglinAnderson I'm part of an ed group, EVerydayAdvocacy.org Our website provides free help for teachers to address book-bans & censorship. A link to us in NEA's website resources on Racial Justice in Education could help NEA members. Contact me at stv.zemelman@comcast.net .

@plthomasEdD As the lead author for the "Best Practice" book, I'll take support for our progressive, kid-centered, effective teaching wherever I can get it. Amazing that 12 years on from the last edition it's still found useful and considered current!

The "science of" nonsense can't get more nonsenser. People are posting this on social media and saying it is "new research" from SOR and "science of writing" This is from Best Practice, newest ed 2012 heinemann.com/products/e0435…

@susangbarber @susangbarber - Not sure if my reply got to you so I'll repeat: Please let me know how you used info from our EverydayAdvocacy.org website for your panel discussion. You can email me at stv.zemelman@comcast.net

@susangbarber Check out everydayadvocacy.org -esp. section "Opposing Bans". Teachers don't have training on addressing community controversy. They can learn about action that's informed, savvy, sustainable, builds support networks, but doesn't destroy their job. Glad to discuss further!

I’m on an upcoming panel about book bannning and how we can move forward with literacy instruction and reading in general in today’s society. What would you add to this conversation?

@susangbarber I'd be interested to learn how you used or shared info from the EverydayAdvocacy.org website in your panel discussion! You can email me at stv.zemelman@comcast.net

@StevenZemelman Thank you!! very helpful!

@JWhitePubRadio Re Trinity test: in 1963 I worked for Committee for Nuclear Info under Prof Barry Commoner, St.Louis. Our study on A-bomb test fallout 1951-62: Iodine 131 fell on grass, Nev. & Utah. Cows ate the grass. Kids drank milk, causing thyroid cancer. Want to talk w me?

Hey teachers who care about civics- For help dealing with book bans & censorship visit everydayadvocacy.org & companion FB page "Everyday Advocacy - for Educators in Politically Divided Times". Pls follow & share yr stories. twitter.com/i/lists/806680…

A courageous 100 year-old woman protested book banning by the Martin County, Florida school board. Listen to her here: youtube.com/watch?v=jyWTgE… . Hear her as well at the Facebook page "Everyday Advocacy - Teachers Acting to Improve Schools" & get up-to-date news on censorship. 📷

Educator friends- To help resist #BookBanning & #CensoringTeachers in your school, check out & follow the new Facebook page, "Everyday Advocacy - Teachers Acting to Improve Schools" & visit the website everydayadvocacy.org #FreedomToRead

@PENamerica @CathyFleischer1 @TheAmandaGorman Let's hope that the Escambia lawsuit and others like it pressure school administrators to think twice before banning or restricting access to books. It's going to cost them. It's harming children, subjecting them to implicit threats and psychological injury.

It's not a ban, they said. It just on another shelf, they said. But the truth about the ban on @TheAmandaGorman's book—as is often the case with book banners—was something quite different: An elaborate—& daunting—process for elementary school children simply to access a poem.

Great lineup of IL Writing Project summer workshops - teachers, re-energize yourself after a year of so much pressure and controversy! REGISTER at bit.ly/41T3WpO . Questions? Tweet us back!

@tperry5280 @smokeylit @Hell2Teach @CathyFleischer1 @regieroutman @TobeyAnt

Tomorrow is 1 yr anniversary of pub of our book "Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters"! Much has changed. Censorship & racial backlash almost everywhere. But MANY ESSENTIAL EQUITY EFFORTS CAN BE DONE NO MATTER WHAT THE REPRESSION. Find ways to enact critical love

People- With numerous states gagging teachers so they can't discuss race in any way, it's all the more important to be clear about your own racial understanding so you can continue to find ways to support your students of color. "Teaching for Racial Equity" can help you do that.

Teaching for Racial Equity stenhouse.com/products/97816…

@ncte_elate I saved a draft of my ELATE 2023 session proposal. After I logged out & tried to re-enter the system it lost my password, & then it didn't even recognize my name. I hope someone at NCTE or ELATE can fix this. My proposal is ready to submit - but is it lost? HELP!

@Hell2Teach This looks excellent, Vanessa! Too bad I'm in Chicago.

Hey Ventura County locals - sharing a cool event in honor of #MLKDay2023 for today and tomorrow (I’m late in posting, sorry). Check out gatheringforjustice.org for more info

@smokeylit Smoke- Did you see yesterday's NYTimes front page article lauding SOR? Omitted any comments from serious reading researchers of course. I'm tempted to write a letter to editor, with Sarah Levine (@ Standford). What researchers do you think I should quote or refer to?

@DoctorSam7 @smokeylit Smoke- Did you see yesterday's NYTimes front-page article lauding the [sic] "science of reading"? Of course, they consulted no serious reading researchers. I'm tempted to write a letter to the editor. Who would you suggest as the best such people to quote or refer them to?

Whose SOR? That's the whole point of the blog. There are MANY MANY researchers who do not accept your "uncomfortable truths". You can't claim settled science when that many scientists still have major questions. To make that claim is misleading and false.