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Reflections on “Never Done Before”

My heart is filled with gratitude today. A few weeks ago, on impulse, I signed up to volunteer for something called the Never

Educational Developer as Multi-faceted: Buddy, Mentor, Confidante, Friend…

When I first started teaching, there were a couple of much more experienced teachers I would meet every now and then, and I

Performance & Teaching Observation

We know this already. We know, for a fact, that if someone other than our regular students enters our classroom, something shi

Rolling Up Shirtsleeves: Designing for (Un)Anticipated Needs

How important is it, for you, that you can roll the sleeves of your long-sleeved shirt to above your elbows? Most shirts do, s

The Joys and Gaps Between Practice, Writing and Publishing

Yesterday, an article I co-authored just got published. The article is in Inside Higher Ed, it’s called Online Does Mean

#MYFest22: Joy, Connections, Transformative Learning… and FOMO

Sometimes you envision something and design in a certain way, and then the reality is not what you expected. In the case of #M

Finding Joy and #MYFest22

I recently participated in a session by Academic Impressions focused on rediscovering joy at work in the midst of burnout and

Transformative Learning and Its Influence on #MYFest22 Design

In 2018, Autumm Caines and I wrote an article about promoting ownership, agency and equity in educational development work. In

On the Complex Realities of Care-giving and Care-receiving

One of the beauties of being a non-linear reader is that sometimes I read different things at the same time and make serendipi

Spreading Energy & Connection in Gatherings

Yesterday I led some really good, energetic, interactive sessions. A local 3-hour Zoom workshop and a 90 minute interactive ke