Reflective Teaching Evolution

This morning, I finally got around to reading Bonnie Stewart's SlideShare from her Northwestern University talk: today i got to hang out at @NorthwesternU and talk experiential learning & its intersection with digital learning thanks to @matthewlaron & #TEACHxperts & it was way fun & MAN this is a pretty place. slides from the opening … Continue reading Experiential Learning & Experimental Teaching →

For the past few days, I've been trying to read a keynote I was anxiously awaiting, mostly because Robin had promised to break the mold of her previous keynotes: I am going to read a keynote address this week. I never do that, but I wanted to write something more nuanced and wrestle and craft … Continue reading A Reflection on Robin DeRosa’s #PaLa2018 Keynote →

Throughout my tenure as a professor, my teaching practice has become continually innovative, iterative, evolving, and messy, although messy in this sense means something more akin to the ideas underlying jazz music. “Jazz teaching” is less messy than “highly improvisory, depending for its appeal more on the skill, intuition, and experience of individual performers than … Continue reading Jazz Teaching and Open Pedagogy →

I rewatched Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" this morning. (Ms. Adichie's awesome webpage is here: https://www.chimamanda.com/) I had watched this TED talk previously because it is, indeed, one of my sister Christy's favorite TED talks of all time. Christy believes in the power of stories, and it is part of our … Continue reading Revisiting “The Danger of a Single Story” for #UnboundEq →

I have been reading "An Urgency of Teachers" by Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel. Excited to announce the release of a book I’ve been working on with @slamteacher for the last 2, 7, or 18 years, depending on how I count. It’s available now in paperback, Kindle, and open-access. All proceeds benefit the @HybridPed … Continue reading Wrestling with the Inner Pedagogue →

There's something delightful in thinking about how to design things in the exact opposite way they have been designed previously. In my design experiences, we've used Wrong Theory to "break" design, and I marvel at the ways Wrong Theory continues to infiltrate my life in new and unexpected ways. The newest is, of course, the … Continue reading My Alt-CV/Un-Introduction for #UnboundEq →

I spent last Wednesday at NSF Day at the University of New Mexico. It was a really, really long day, and not just because of my recent health issues. For an organization that funds some of the most cutting edge research on STEM education, it certainly failed to implement any active or project-based learning during … Continue reading NSF Day at UNM →

I have gotten to the place where I have many, many blogs to write and I have not written one of them yet. I suppose my editing mode has been in hyperdrive so much so that I haven't even started??? Yep...pretty sure that's not it. I suppose part of my problem was the health stuff. … Continue reading So many blogs to write, so little time… →

My Definition of Leadership My definition of leadership has definitely evolved throughout this spring semester. From my preliminary paper’s definition - “Leadership is the ability of person or small group of persons to move a group or a situation towards a collective goal” – which mimicked to some degree Northouse’s (2016, pg. 6) definition - … Continue reading My Leadership Philosophy Part 1 – My Leadership Definition and Vision →

This year has been an amazing year in terms of my career. I’ve published my first article, chapter, and book. I’ve almost maintained a 4.0 in my studies. I’ve been active in the American Chemical Society and as a science communicator. And, unfortunately, it has been a so-so year in terms of my teaching. While … Continue reading Yearly Teaching Reflection 2017-2018 →