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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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On the show, individuals read aloud the beliefs and struggles that guide their daily lives. When confidentiality is assured, students are often willing to deeply unpack the very unique ways in which they navigate their lives both generally, and in the context of the class that requested the assignment.

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Counselors Couldn’t Keep Up With Our Growing Mental Health Crisis, So Peers Stepped Up

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I became assistant principal in 2018, but served as dean of culture at Westgate for three years prior. We explored issues related to confidentiality and setting boundaries, we watched and read Dr. Brene Brown—esteemed author, researcher, and expert in vulnerability and shame—and we role played for days.

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When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse

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VIPKid, she says, allowed her to continue doing what she loved—what she felt she was best at—without stopping her from immersing herself in a new culture. Throughout the onboarding process, and in all the company materials she’d read since, she had never come across any specific guidance. There’s no handbook,” she explains.

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A Data-Oriented Approach to Elevating Women in the Workplace

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Fairygodboss has grown into a powerful site where women can learn about each other’s work experiences in a confidential space. Since then Fairygodboss has grown into a powerful site where women can learn about each other’s work experiences in a confidential space. You can’t expect them to just read your mind or imagine your strategy.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

Scholarly Teacher

The program fosters student agency in learning through solidarity, creates a sense of belonging and self-efficacy for students and instructors, integrates teaching approaches responsive to students’ learning needs, and builds a culture of openness to student feedback (Cavazos, 2024; Cavazos & Chapa, 2023; Cavazos et al.,

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Why We Need to Share Care, Appreciation, Kindness and Empathy (CAKE) in our Classrooms  

Faculty Focus

Give students time to first read these on their own. Ask students to read a few notes aloud. You may ask students to share how they feel and what they experience when they read or hear these notes of appreciation. Storytelling to Practice Empathy Read or have several students read portions of Gate A-4 out loud.

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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

Dave Edwards One of my biggest takeaways from reading Dave’s book is that even those of us who consider ourselves to be strong supporters of gender-expansive kids can cause harm by doing things with the best of intentions. “When a student changes their name and pronouns,” he offers, “who should be informed?