Volume XLV, No. 15 | October 19, 2023 Creating an Equity-Minded Syllabus for a Post-Covid Classroom “Everyone smiles in the same language.” If you are anything like me, you smiled when you read the above quote. Aside from its effect of making people smile, I love this quote because it represents equality and [...]
Volume XLV, No. 14 | October 5, 2023 Bringing the Whole Person (and Not Just the Student) to Your Classroom I believe student inclusion and a sense of belonging are more important than ever in creating a successful and meaningful classroom experience. But how does one get students to feel seen, heard, [...]
Volume XLV, No. 13 | September 14, 2023 Researching and Learning With Students: Undergraduate Research Strategies Undergraduate research has been identified as a high-impact practice that provides opportunities for students’ holistic development as scholars and people. Instructor-student research provides many benefits, such as student growth in writing, reading, and critical and creative [...]
Volume XLV, No. 12 | August 31, 2023 Serving a 360-Degree Need: Using Non-Faculty Employees to Support Students in the Classroom March 2020: It was the middle of the spring semester and dreams of spring break plans were right around the corner. Then the pandemic hit. Our community college, like many others [...]
Volume XLV, No. 11 | June 8, 2023 Relishing the New Normal: Best Practices for HyFlex Teaching and Learning As education adapts to the new normal of a post-COVID-19 world, the concept of HyFlex teaching and learning has emerged as a solution for balancing in-person and remote instruction. However, effectively implementing [...]
Volume XLV, No. 10 | May 25, 2023 Take a Look, It’s in a Book: Empowering Preservice Teachers to Read to Their Communities Some of our preservice teachers will begin their teaching careers in schools that have a noticeable population of students with limited English proficiency. According to EdRising (2020), “Almost [...]
Volume XLV, No. 9 | May 11, 2023 From Field Trips to Fully Involved: Embedding Key Players Into Transitional Courses Community colleges continue to address the challenges of increasing completion and retention, but often these efforts take place in the separate silos of academic affairs and student services. While finding time [...]
Volume XLV, No. 8 | April 27, 2023 Filling the Gap With Possibilities The gap between secondary education and a sustainable income has resulted in a collection of like-minded individuals who want to be a part of the solution. Postsecondary educators recognize the possible changes in quality of life when the [...]
Volume XLV, No. 7 | April 13, 2023 Transforming the Learning Experience Through Ungrading The conventional 100-point scale of grading has been the common standard for evaluating students’ progress and comprehension of material since the early 20th century (Schinske & Tanner, 2014). Despite the ubiquity of numerical and letter grades in [...]
Volume XLV, No. 6 | March 30, 2023 Solving the Student Success Paradox: Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Enhance Student Learning, Achievement, and Satisfaction Recently, an article published by Ruffalo Noel Levitz (2022) reported that approximately 31 percent of students seeking an associate's degree will graduate within six years. Although [...]