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InstructureCon 2025: Ryan Lufkin, Vice President of Global Academic Strategy, Brings the Skinny

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This session explores how a small liberal arts institution has successfully repurposed Canvas for faculty onboarding, professional development, syllabus archiving, student organizations, and institutional assessmentall without additional costs.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

In The Art of Change , I call this the Paradoxical Mindset Cycle —an approach that doesn’t resolve contradiction, but uses it as an engine for insight. Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

In The Art of Change , I call this the Paradoxical Mindset Cycle —an approach that doesn’t resolve contradiction, but uses it as an engine for insight. Try This in Your Class Tomorrow If you want to test this out without overhauling your syllabus, here’s a quick plug-and-play format: Choose a paradox related to your next topic.

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Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Sharing Online Courses

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The offering was possible thanks to a new online course-sharing arrangement among members of the Council of Independent Colleges, a group of independent liberal arts colleges. So the college offered him the chance to retake one of the course subjects online over the summer—even though Eureka doesn’t teach any online courses.

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5 ways I’ve leveraged AI in my English classroom

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Soon they found they could use ChatGPT as a creative, brainstorming, spit-balling partner—with great results: generating open-ended questions, discovering and exploring their interests, creating a day-by-day calendar to reach goals, ideating original art pieces, and augmenting lyrics for songs and scripts.

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Getting pre-service teachers comfortable using and teaching with STEAM tools

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After a semester where I threw out the syllabus, I was left with an inspiring question: How can I make my future courses more practical and still keep the academic writing and the academic requirements intact? Through their work with KIBO, the pre-service teachers discovered they already had more STEAM skills than they had initially realized.

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How Books Became a Mirror to See Myself — and a Window to Learning for My Students

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Over the last five years, I built a dual-enrollment English language arts program, incorporating the critical work of Tricia Ebarvia , Lorena Germán , Kimberly Parker and Julia Torres , the educator team behind #DisruptTexts.

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