Category: Reflections

Thoughts and reflections about teaching, education, pedagogy, and related issues.

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2023: Craft and Community

2023 was a year devoted to writing craft and writing communities. While I faced some professional challenges, it was also…

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Zest: Adding flavor in 2024

I have been thinking about the One Little Word that would guide me in 2024. This is my 10th year…

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The Ungrading Journey Continues

Five years into this ungrading journey I’m still working out some things and right now in the wake of the…

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The Last Mile Problem

In supply chain management last-mile describes a similar problem for transporting either people or freight. In freight networks, parcels can be delivered…

At first glance it would seem black horses are walking on desert land, while actually these are zebras walking in shallow water.
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Writing Reflection

What’s New? This semester I shifted my students’ weekly reflections from a private channel to the public channel – making…

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Believe the Writer

I have written before about my mentor Nancy Peterson who led the Morehead Writing Project before I even understood what…