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Office Hours: 30 minutes with Jamie Piltch
Read More: Office Hours: 30 minutes with Jamie Piltch“It’s not enough to say ‘don’t do this’; we need to help give students identity and meaning apart from status, and I think teaching about citizenship and civic…
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Can Failure Undermine Learning?
Read More: Can Failure Undermine Learning?If students learn more from succeeding than failing, how can we reframe what it means to fail?
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Beyond the Pride Month Syllabus
Read More: Beyond the Pride Month SyllabusThree resources to help you create safe spaces for queer students.
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Using Peers for Scaffolding
Read More: Using Peers for ScaffoldingWhat do peer-generated questions accomplish in the learning process… and what are their limitations?
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Beyond the Syllabus: Editing, Revising, Growing
Read More: Beyond the Syllabus: Editing, Revising, GrowingThree new (and old) calls to embrace, invigorate, and develop reflective practice.
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Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Linda Rodriguez
Read More: Protagonists: 20 Minutes with Linda Rodriguez“I always want for the kids in my classes to feel like that: heard, seen, and known.”
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Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Danitra Blue
Read More: Office Hours: 30 Minutes with Danitra Blue“Teaching the skill of having conversations about identity is different than teaching the skill of how to apply a math formula to the real world. You can’t apply…
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Protagonists: 20 minutes with Julia Maxey
Read More: Protagonists: 20 minutes with Julia Maxey“Every once in a while, I wander and look in other people’s classes: I’d like to see what people are doing in other disciplines. How do they handle…
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Office Hours: Interview with Jared Colley and Stephen Hebert
Read More: Office Hours: Interview with Jared Colley and Stephen Hebert“There’s no way that we can guarantee that a discussion is equitable. What we can work toward is finding as many ways to get student voices into it…
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Beyond the Syllabus: Exploring Audiobooks in Earnest
Read More: Beyond the Syllabus: Exploring Audiobooks in EarnestWhat if audiobooks could lead students to more creative reading and better listening?