Why We Write
The transition from teaching high school to teaching college is far more challenging than I anticipated, but the element that I find most challenging is the infrequency in which I see my students....
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My daughter Alexandra is rocking it in 1st grade. Seriously. Unlike last year when she cried every morning of kindergarten for six weeks, she hit the ground running this year and has been happy since...
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Part of our first year experience curriculum includes self-reflection essays. During these essays, students are meant to pause–think–and write about what has happened to them as learners in the past 6...
View Article(How) To Lecture or Not to Lecture…That is the Question
This fall I am teaching a new course: Ethnographies of Education. This is a two part sociology course: in the fall the students will learn sociological terms and theories about schooling and they will...
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