First Day of Class: Do I Belong Here? 

First Day of Class: Do I Belong Here? 

Image by Rose Jaffe Colorado State University, made in collaboration with high school youth, Fort Collins, CO (source)    “The confidence that comes from belonging helps you try new things that may be hard or scary on their own and nearly impossible without it.”...
Spotlight on Faculty: Jane Raycraft

Spotlight on Faculty: Jane Raycraft

Games, Chocolate and Collaboration: A Conversation with Jane Raycraft about collegiality and making learning enjoyable As a teacher, do you ever see students fearfully entering your classroom with pre-conceived notions of distress surrounding your discipline? Have you...
Spotlight on faculty: Andrea Actis

Spotlight on faculty: Andrea Actis

A Conversation with Andrea Actis on Risk, Vulnerability & Affect in Teaching & Learning Risk and Sharing Strange Memoirs This semester, Andrea Actis took a risk. She went into her 300-level English class and shared some deeply personal pieces of writing, or in...
The Paper Bag Exam – A Celebration of Learning

The Paper Bag Exam – A Celebration of Learning

It’s early December, it’s exam period and the air on campus is intense with last minute studying and test anxiety. Except perhaps for one classroom in Cedar… I enter the room to find 32 early childhood education students chatting and laughing in groups of four as they...