Steve Chiger

@stevechiger.bsky.social

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Senior Director of 5-12 Humanities, Uncommon Schools; Co-Author, Love & Literacy and Gram & Gran Save the Summer; unrepentant nerd: loves ELA, cog sci, research, media lit, pedagogy, medieval marginalia; he/him stevechiger.com

An image of the poetry resource I created.
Two of my books on a school bookshelf.
A meme about the dearth of media literacy skills.
An article about a photograph that leads with an AI-generated version of it.
Charell Star holding her new memoir: Trash Bag Tales & Other Stories of an Accidentally Happy Life.
researchED NYC flier — get tix at bit.ly/rEDNYC
A core idea from the book Love & Literacy — discourse is talk that changes what and how we think.
2025 Common Sense Census
The portion of the article where I'm quoted.
The Mysterious Benedict Society book cover.
A session promotion for my researchED talk on reading comprehension in secondary grades.
The speaker list for ResearchED NYC.
An update from the NYT saying Meta will stop fact checking and now rely on FB and Insta users.
Cartoon from a few years ago by Lukey McGarry.
The front and back cover of Gram & Gran Save the Summer, a book for gr 3-6 that teaches media literacy through narrative puzzles.
A screenshot of NAMLE’s state of media literacy education, 2024 report, recommending that we strengthen pre-K6 media literacy education.
A still from the famous (infamous?) Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film from 1967.
A meme about AI. The image is captioned with an expert circling small tells that it's AI generated, missing that the woman in the photo has feet where her hands should be.
Posner's theory of attention
The cover of Andrew Watson's book Learning Begins.
A picture of Gram and Gram Save the Summer in a library catalog.
The old Maxwell ad—featuring a man in a chair being blown away by the power of a speaker.
An AI synthesis of reviews on Google.
An animation celebrating a giveaway of Gram and Gran — on December 16.
One of Louis Decrevel’s amazing images for the book Gram and Gran Save the Summer.
Just Tell Them, by Zach Groshell
The ILA’s comment on disciplinary literacy in its Adolescent Readers statement.
A picture of the NCTE assessment committee
A person with a book for a head. I’ve seen this image credited to Edward Gorey.
How Do We Learn cover
Cover of Gram and Gran Save the Summer, a whimsical chapter book that teaches media literacy to ES/MS students.
Cover of Gram and Gram Save the Summer
Cover of Gram and Gran Save the Summer, an innovative text that teaches media literacy using whimsical stories and playful puzzles.
Medieval marginalia: a fish with feet!
Cover of James, by Percival Everett
An example of Dutch Still Life painting. Heda’s “Still Life With a Gilt Cup.”