The Art of Storytelling to Engage Students
Have you ever connected your lesson with your students to a personal experience or a story you witnessed? If not, you should. Watch the engagement in the students’ eyes as…
AI in Teaching: What the Science of Learning Already Tells Us
Few topics in higher education generate as much debate right now as the role artificial intelligence in all aspects of teaching and learning. Faculty listservs, teaching centers and national conferences…
Leading With Your Heart and Guarding It Too: Lessons on Sustainability from Fifteen Years of School Leadership
Leadership Begins with the Heart For 15 years, I tried to be the kind of school leader I would have wanted, which was one who met everyone’s needs all the…
When an 89.4 Becomes a Crisis: Rethinking Precision in College Grading
The Decimal Point Problem During one of my first semesters teaching introductory biology labs at the college level, a student approached me after class visibly frustrated about a final grade.…
Community-Guided Teaching: Building Relationships Before Course Design
A Relational Framework for Community-Guided Teaching in Higher Education In higher education, many instructors want to include Indigenous perspectives, experiential learning, and community-engaged approaches in their courses, but they are…
They’re Not Lazy: Why Trauma-Informed Teaching Matters in Higher Education
I was that student. I was an adult learner balancing a full-time job, raising children, managing bills, and pursuing a doctoral degree during a global pandemic. Within one year, I…
AI in Teacher Preparation: Why Student Privacy Must Come First
Artificial Intelligence has rapidly entered teacher preparation programs. Preservice teachers are increasingly using generative AI tools to brainstorm lesson ideas, differentiate instruction, create assessments, draft parent communication, and generate instructional…
“Just Tell Us What to Study”: A Better Way to Build Clinical Reasoning
One of the most common requests I receive from nursing students is for a more detailed study guide. At first glance, it may appear that students simply want to know…
Moving Beyond the ‘Presentation Parade’: Designing Onboarding That Actually Teaches
What words would you use to describe your back-to-school educator gathering? Kick off? Launch? Retreat? Presentation Parade? All too often, we educators forget to model what we know about how…
Holding an AI Ready AI Resistant Mindset
Everywhere we turn, it’s there. University wide, we debate new enterprise AI model integrations. In department meetings, we discuss updated syllabi statements. In shared office spaces, we discuss student writing…