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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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Though we did not have the language for it when designing the course five years ago, a fundamental way we did this was by centering SEL in our classrooms. The combination of focused attention to SEL and fundamentally taking an asset-based approach to teaching mathematics changes our classroom setting in numerous ways.

Math 124
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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

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I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. They are aware of mis- and disinformation, the fact that social media is designed to be attention-grabbing, and that not all sources are reliable.

Teaching 130
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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

Though we did not have the language for it when designing the course five years ago, a fundamental way we did this was by centering SEL in our classrooms. The combination of focused attention to SEL and fundamentally taking an asset-based approach to teaching mathematics changes our classroom setting in numerous ways.

Math 98
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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. They are aware of mis- and disinformation, the fact that social media is designed to be attention-grabbing, and that not all sources are reliable.

Teaching 111
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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

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Feed it a typical job description or help-wanted ad—that is to say, one that’s likely either vague or full of jargon—and its artificial intelligence-informed system spits out a new version of that text translated into the language of skills. Before you even get to all that, though, it would be helpful to know, well, what exactly is a skill?

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

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I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. or demands to perform foreignness and “say something in that language.” Wait, what?

Education 168