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Text Sets for Courses… and Graduate Projects?

Drs. Greta Freeman and Brooke Hardin from USC Upstate presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on Text Sets. Freeman and Hardin are both faculty in the School of Education with extensive experience as teachers and in literacy. I didn’t know about text sets, and as the name suggests, these are collections of texts on a […]
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Storytelling in the Classroom!

Dr. Corrie Whitmore, Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on the use of storytelling as a high impact educational practice. The welcoming native land acknowledgement was beautiful, honest, and thoughtful! Whitmore recommended two books supported by the Ford Foundation and available online: Stop Talking, Dialogues […]
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Service Learning During a Pandemic

Tonight I watched a Lilly Conference presentation by Dr. Mary Marshall from Cal State Long Beach on incorporating service learning elements into courses. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about but know very little… yet have been hearing great examples in podcasts. Course-based service learning, as mentioned by Dr. Marshall, helps participants increase personal […]
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Communities of Practice for Reflective Teaching and Learning

In another fun asynchronous Lilly Conference session on faculty development, Steven Eberth and Lisa Singleterry from Western Michigan University presented on faculty learning communities and communities of practice. I love how they started by building online community with a graphic of equality and equity (fence with kids of different heights, in one case using different […]
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Rethinking Bias in Student Evaluations

Tonight I watched a webinar by Dr. Bedelia Richards entitled “How to Challenge Race and Gender Bias in Student Evaluations” and available through our institutional subscription to the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) and part of the RED Teaching Certificate. This hourlong webinar was truly eye-opening, and I have recommended it to […]
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The Process of Onboarding Online

What do you think about when you hear the word orientation? Michelle Fitzpatrick and Chelsea Biggerstaff Austin Community College described their efforts to launch and a year later completely relaunch due to COVID the Faculty Onboarding and Orientation program they oversee. The program was carefully designed, rolled out in phases, and beautifully described by these […]
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