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This study investigates the ways in which teachers are using Instagram, particularly at a moment in time during a global pandemic, when teachers are both more isolated and dealing with multiple modes of instruction, many that involve some new use of instructional technology. Top posts made by teachers using the hashtag \\#teachersofinstagram are categorized and analyzed using a feminist critical discourse analysis through a visual methodology. Findings indicate that the top posts on \\#teachersofinstragram portray teachers asheteronormative White females with a focus on sharing the positive aesthetics of the teacher, her classroom, and her life, but that teachers are also experiencing stress and resilience as they connect with other teachers on this platform.  \nKeywords: social media, teacher education, critical discourse analysis  \nAs we move into the third decade of social media, there is much known about how teachers have come to use these platforms over time. Teachers have utilized various social media to teach, to learn, and to create community to serve these purposes. Twitter became the landing place for most teachers and the research followed. But as new platforms emerge, teachers are shifting to new spaces. Instagram, a social image sharing site launched in 2010, has 7-8 million posts using the hashtag \\#teachersofinstagram at any given time. Teachers are on Instagram and active, but the research on this use is nascent.  \nAs teachers use these tools, they also contribute to a larger discourse around what it means be a teacher. The context around which teachers are engaging in social media also matters. At this point in time, teachers are engaging in social media in the midst of a global pandemic. The pandemic has affected education in a variety of ways, most notably that many schools were not able to meet in person for several months and then continued with various remote and hybrid options throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Additionally, in the United States in particular, the year was fraught with political turmoil around the pandemic, anti-Black racism, and the 2020 presidential election. These political moments further impacted education through an increased awareness around the ways the pandemic disproportionately affected Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), which was a signal of existing inequities (Strauss 2020), as well as through the resulting battles among local school boards around the teaching of Critical Race Theory, provoked by Donald Trump during his 2020 campaign (Bailey et al., 2021; Shocker & DeSenso, 2021/2022) . This study is an investigation into how teachers were using the hashtag \\#teachersofinstagram in this  \ncontext. As such the research question is, what do the top Instagram posts by teachers in the fall of 2020 tell us about how teachers are using Instagram and how teachers are being constructed through this use?  \nLiterature Review  \nTeachers and Social Media  \nThe research on social media and teachers is mostly focused on the ways in which teachers use social media for teaching and learning. Teachers are defined in this study as K-12 teachers, but post-secondary and pre-K teachers also use these teacher hashtags as well. The benefits of social media in the classroom have been found to enhance student engagement, community connections, and teacher-student interactions (Greenhow et al., 2020) . Teacher professional learning in both formal and informal spheres is also supported on social media platforms, though there is a disconnect between formal uses that are open-ended and voluntary and informal uses that are closed-ended and structured (Sharma et al., 2019) . The community developed within Twitter, the most studied platform, has been reported to be a ","cbCaidTWjCKRqyzF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidTWjCKRqyzF","pdf",328518,13,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Literature Review\n## Teachers and Social Media\n## Instagram and Teachers","[{\"question\":\"What hashtag and platform does the study focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The study focuses on teachers using Instagram with the hashtag #teachersofinstagram, analyzing top posts.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the top Instagram posts analyzed?\",\"answer\":\"Top posts are categorized and analyzed using feminist critical discourse analysis with a visual methodology.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study find about how teachers are portrayed?\",\"answer\":\"The top posts portray teachers as heteronormative White females emphasizing positive teacher/classroom aesthetics, while also showing stress and resilience as teachers connect with others.\"}]","The “Perfect” Teacher - Discursive Formations of #teachersofinstagram | PDF",1792090311,33]