Reflections

How do students perceive their understanding of biology terms?

Dr. Lisa McDonnell is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC San Diego and was on the Online with LSE webinar series to discuss a recent publication about “Identifying Troublesome Jargon in Biology.” I like how Online with LSE is now having graduate students moderate the sessions! McDonnell began by highlighting how there is a lot […]
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M-LoCUS?

I’ve been thinking about Dr. Jeff Maloy’s JMBE Live presentation a couple of weeks ago. I watched part of it live, then watched the recording a week ago, and returned to it today after sharing the link and talking about it this week. Maloy is teaching faculty at UCLA with extensive experience in education research. […]
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Video Case Analyses & Collaborative Oral Discussions

Drs. Ashley Whitehead and Mina Min from Appalachian State University presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference online on “Videocase Analysis For Preservice Teachers’ Growth As Culturally Responsive Teachers.” They introduced a video case analysis assignment for their preservice learning teachers course. The session goals focused on how to use video case analysis to support preservice […]
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The Frederick Douglass Institute

Drs. Shavonne Shorter and Robert J. Green from Bloomsbury University have a great program to support marginalized students. As we prepare for our summer programs, I watched this session again this evening with Amada (and bedtime routine). The title of Shorter and Green’s 2020 Lilly Conference asynchronous session “Increasing Marginalized Student Success Through the Frederick […]
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Air Force Academy Inclusive Excellence Programs

Drs. Kim Holser and Marc Napilitano from the United States Air Force Academy presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference online on “Inclusive Excellence Programming at a Military Service Academy: Improving Practice.” Hosler us the Director of Instructional Design and Napolitano is the Director of Faculty Development. This is the second session I watch by Napolitano […]
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What do we already know about culturally responsive teaching?

Dr. Ingrid Everett presented results of a study on culturally responsive teaching (CRT) at the 2020 Lilly Conference online. Everett is an early childhood educator with a background in Head Start. The presentation entitled: “Culturally Responsive Teaching, Math, And Teacher Education” had the subtitle “We already know what to do” highlighted Everett’s goal of sharing […]
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Sandtray Activities in Courses

I watched the last recorded session in the Resilience section for the 2020 Lilly Conference online asynchronous sessions. It was a short and thought-provoking session on a topic I didn’t know much about. Dr. Jeffrey M. Sullivan from the Department of Counselor Education at Sam Houston University. Sullivan described a sandtray activity as typically being […]
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Burnout, Compassion, and Self Care

This evening I watched another 2020 Lilly Conference session by Dr. Susan Egbert and Sean Camp from Utah State University. Again, the duo was engaging and presents so well together. The session was entitled: “Caring for Self While Serving Students: Trauma Stewardship for Educators” and had very useful information, beautiful slides, and an important message. […]
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Mindfulness-based Strategies for Learning

Tonight I watched a second 2020 Lilly session by Dr. Leslie Cizmas from Texas A&M. Cizmas defined mindfulness as “the practice of maintaining a non-judge mental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis” based on Merriam Webster. There is no specific technic. Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn started […]
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