Breana
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Our article about the #AI in Teaching & Learning Project has just been published! @tip-jrnl.bsky.social Learn more about the #highered #research & #facultydevelopment project here: sotl.gmu.edu/ai/ #GenAI #
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Navigating the AI-enabled education landscape: A multifaceted approach to providing effective professional learning and support for educators
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to reshape higher education, instructors need effective, accessible professional learning opportunities to enable them to make informed, inte...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our article about the #AI in Teaching & Learning Project has just been published! @tip-jrnl.bsky.social Learn more about the #highered #research & #facultydevelopment project here: sotl.gmu.edu/ai/ #GenAI #
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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As the summer series on #criticalreflection wraps up, we’re turning #reflection into routine. What will sustain your teaching practice beyond the start of the semester? #highered #EdDev higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/week-9-tea... @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
Week 9: Teaching Is a Two-Way Mirror
Teaching means encountering resistance—and reflecting in real time. This week: reframe pushback as feedback, and model reflection out loud.
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August 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
As the summer series on #criticalreflection wraps up, we’re turning #reflection into routine. What will sustain your teaching practice beyond the start of the semester? #highered #EdDev higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/week-9-tea... @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
Excited to share my conversation on #criticalreflection with Janel Seeley, about how intentional #dialogue + willingness to be vulnerable can deepen #reflection + build community, esp in today's #highered environment
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The Faculty Lounge: A Conversation with Dr. Janel Seeley
Explore reflection as dialogue - with colleagues and with students.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Excited to share my conversation on #criticalreflection with Janel Seeley, about how intentional #dialogue + willingness to be vulnerable can deepen #reflection + build community, esp in today's #highered environment
higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/the-facult...
higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/the-facult...
New to #criticalreflection? Start with this overview of Brookfield’s 4 lenses & reflection prompts to guide your uncovering of which lens feels most comfortable, and which is most challenging. #highered
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Week 5: Looking through multiple lenses
Want to understand your teaching more fully? This week introduces a Brookfield's framework of 4 lenses for reflection.
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June 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New to #criticalreflection? Start with this overview of Brookfield’s 4 lenses & reflection prompts to guide your uncovering of which lens feels most comfortable, and which is most challenging. #highered
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
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@academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
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What assumptions do you have about your #students & your #teaching? 3 simple questions help uncover/address them...
🧠 Why?
🧐 So what?
🔄 What next?
#criticalreflection #highered #facultydevelopment #EdChat @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
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🧠 Why?
🧐 So what?
🔄 What next?
#criticalreflection #highered #facultydevelopment #EdChat @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
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Week 4: What are you assuming?
What beliefs shape your teaching? This week is all about uncovering assumptions about our students, ourselves, and our relationships in the classroom.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What assumptions do you have about your #students & your #teaching? 3 simple questions help uncover/address them...
🧠 Why?
🧐 So what?
🔄 What next?
#criticalreflection #highered #facultydevelopment #EdChat @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
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🧠 Why?
🧐 So what?
🔄 What next?
#criticalreflection #highered #facultydevelopment #EdChat @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/highered...
Listen to my conversation w/award-winning author+educator @aldenjones.bsky.social as we explore critical reflection as a classroom tool & a personal and ethical practice.
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@thephdplace.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Teaching
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@thephdplace.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Teaching
@blairpub.bsky.social
The Faculty Lounge: A Conversation with Alden Jones
Listen now | We talk about what it means to align your teaching with your values, how classroom silence can be a form of self-protection, and why vulnerability might be one of a teacher’s greatest str...
higheredpraxis.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Listen to my conversation w/award-winning author+educator @aldenjones.bsky.social as we explore critical reflection as a classroom tool & a personal and ethical practice.
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
@thephdplace.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Teaching
@blairpub.bsky.social
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
@thephdplace.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Teaching
@blairpub.bsky.social
Critical Reflection, Week 2: Many of us in #education share foundational beliefs about #teaching & #learning - even if we rarely say them out loud, they shape most of our decision-making. What are yours?
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsku #EDUsky #highered
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@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsku #EDUsky #highered
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Week 2: What is Critical Reflection?
Not all reflection is created equal. Discover how critical reflection goes deeper—and why it matters for meaningful teaching.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Critical Reflection, Week 2: Many of us in #education share foundational beliefs about #teaching & #learning - even if we rarely say them out loud, they shape most of our decision-making. What are yours?
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsku #EDUsky #highered
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@academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsku #EDUsky #highered
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Excited-if slightly terrified-to share that I'm dipping my toes into podcasts! This summer, I'll post a podcast each week to accompany my series on developing a critically reflective #teaching practice. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky #EDUsky open.substack.com/pub/highered...
Welcome to the Podcast!
Summer 2025 Series on Crafting a Critically Reflective Practice
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May 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Excited-if slightly terrified-to share that I'm dipping my toes into podcasts! This summer, I'll post a podcast each week to accompany my series on developing a critically reflective #teaching practice. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky #EDUsky open.substack.com/pub/highered...
After a busy semester, I’m looking forward to slowing down & thinking intentionally about teaching. Next week, I launch a summer series on critically reflective practice - join me for weekly posts w/resources & a short reflection activity! #highered #facultydevelopment #teaching #criticalreflection
Summer 2025 Series on Crafting a Critically Reflective Practice
Align your teaching with your core values—one week at a time.
higheredpraxis.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
After a busy semester, I’m looking forward to slowing down & thinking intentionally about teaching. Next week, I launch a summer series on critically reflective practice - join me for weekly posts w/resources & a short reflection activity! #highered #facultydevelopment #teaching #criticalreflection
Our #SoTL collab @georgemasonu.bsky.social #UVA #JMU got a (small) shout-out in the
@chronicle.com of Higher Education this week! Thanks @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social - we would love to chat anytime ;)
#MasonNation #AI
@chronicle.com of Higher Education this week! Thanks @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social - we would love to chat anytime ;)
#MasonNation #AI
April 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our #SoTL collab @georgemasonu.bsky.social #UVA #JMU got a (small) shout-out in the
@chronicle.com of Higher Education this week! Thanks @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social - we would love to chat anytime ;)
#MasonNation #AI
@chronicle.com of Higher Education this week! Thanks @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social - we would love to chat anytime ;)
#MasonNation #AI
🤩 Just published w/ @ncte.org #TETYC "Reducing Stress through Agency and Autonomy: #CommunityCollege #Student Perspectives on Labor-Based Contract Grading"
#highered #fyc #LBCG doi.org/10.58680/tet...
#highered #fyc #LBCG doi.org/10.58680/tet...
Reducing Stress through Agency and Autonomy: Community College Student Perspectives on Labor-Based Contract Grading | ncte.org
The flexibility of labor-based contract grading allowed students in the study to make strategic, intentional, autonomous choices about the types of labor and products they produced. This strategic dec...
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March 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🤩 Just published w/ @ncte.org #TETYC "Reducing Stress through Agency and Autonomy: #CommunityCollege #Student Perspectives on Labor-Based Contract Grading"
#highered #fyc #LBCG doi.org/10.58680/tet...
#highered #fyc #LBCG doi.org/10.58680/tet...
#FridayFragments #whatimreading this week:
📚2 opposing viewpoints re #GenAI and #students
📚3 articles re:impacts @usedgov.bsky.social layoffs on #highered from @chronicle.com @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @snopes.com
#edusky #academicsky
📚2 opposing viewpoints re #GenAI and #students
📚3 articles re:impacts @usedgov.bsky.social layoffs on #highered from @chronicle.com @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @snopes.com
#edusky #academicsky
Friday Fragments: March 21st
A couple interesting essays on AI plus a few "'how will USED firings impact higher ed" articles
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March 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#FridayFragments #whatimreading this week:
📚2 opposing viewpoints re #GenAI and #students
📚3 articles re:impacts @usedgov.bsky.social layoffs on #highered from @chronicle.com @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @snopes.com
#edusky #academicsky
📚2 opposing viewpoints re #GenAI and #students
📚3 articles re:impacts @usedgov.bsky.social layoffs on #highered from @chronicle.com @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @snopes.com
#edusky #academicsky
Reflecting on 5 years of pandemic/"post"-pandemic teaching...and still working on how to make #online discussions feel engaging and worthwhile! Here are my top three challenges facilitating online discussions - what are yours? #teachingonline #highered
Tip: Where do online discussions go wrong?
And what can we do about it?
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March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reflecting on 5 years of pandemic/"post"-pandemic teaching...and still working on how to make #online discussions feel engaging and worthwhile! Here are my top three challenges facilitating online discussions - what are yours? #teachingonline #highered
Hot off the (virtual) presses! So excited to have this
published with @issotl.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Inquiry - thanks to my amazing co-authors and @jessielmoore.bsky.social for her support!
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published with @issotl.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Inquiry - thanks to my amazing co-authors and @jessielmoore.bsky.social for her support!
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January 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Hot off the (virtual) presses! So excited to have this
published with @issotl.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Inquiry - thanks to my amazing co-authors and @jessielmoore.bsky.social for her support!
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TL...
published with @issotl.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Inquiry - thanks to my amazing co-authors and @jessielmoore.bsky.social for her support!
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TL...
Taking a 15-week course and delivering it in a shortened summer semester?
🚫cut content willy-nilly
🚫upload hours of async course lectures
How do you approach the transformation?
higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-summer...
🚫cut content willy-nilly
🚫upload hours of async course lectures
How do you approach the transformation?
higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-summer...
Tip: Summertime Madness
Condensing Courses -Adapting to Accelerated Summer Semesters
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May 13, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Taking a 15-week course and delivering it in a shortened summer semester?
🚫cut content willy-nilly
🚫upload hours of async course lectures
How do you approach the transformation?
higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-summer...
🚫cut content willy-nilly
🚫upload hours of async course lectures
How do you approach the transformation?
higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-summer...
🍎Do you use #Canvas? LOVE to get your thoughts on a 3-Q survey! Trying to put together a “here’s all the GREAT things Canvas does” - balanced with “here’s what annoys the heck out of me” perspective.
➡️Survey in the linked post
#highered #facultydevelopment
➡️Survey in the linked post
#highered #facultydevelopment
How do I love thee, Canvas...
My current institution is just starting the move to Canvas LMS (yay!) and I’m part of the team working on helping instructors prepare for the transition. Despite knowing this was coming for over a yea...
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February 28, 2024 at 9:22 AM
🍎Do you use #Canvas? LOVE to get your thoughts on a 3-Q survey! Trying to put together a “here’s all the GREAT things Canvas does” - balanced with “here’s what annoys the heck out of me” perspective.
➡️Survey in the linked post
#highered #facultydevelopment
➡️Survey in the linked post
#highered #facultydevelopment
Thrilled to share that our multi-institutional team was awarded a SCHEV grant for a #megaSoTL multi-institutional research/faculty development project about teaching and learning with AI. Subscribe for updates/invites to participate! higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/new-projec...
New Project: Preparing Students and Educators for Ethical AI Integration in Higher Education
AI + teaching project will develop educational resources & pedagogical strategies to support ethical integration of AI, informed by interdisciplinary research on AI impacts on teaching and learning.
higheredpraxis.substack.com
February 15, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Thrilled to share that our multi-institutional team was awarded a SCHEV grant for a #megaSoTL multi-institutional research/faculty development project about teaching and learning with AI. Subscribe for updates/invites to participate! higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/new-projec...
Changing our relationship to grades and grading is, for me, about rediscovering the joy of teaching. There's little joy in assigning letter grades or numerical scores to student work... #highered #grading higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-so-you...
Tip: So you want grade differently...
Alternative grading philosophies aim to make assessment more holistic, equitable, and supportive of student learning and motivation.
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November 3, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Changing our relationship to grades and grading is, for me, about rediscovering the joy of teaching. There's little joy in assigning letter grades or numerical scores to student work... #highered #grading higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-so-you...
Tip: Collecting useful #feedback from students mid-semester & thinking about how to make small adjustments to our courses #highered #teaching open.substack.com/pub/highered...
Tip: Strategies for Mid-Semester Student Feedback
Meaningful feedback during the semester to understand student perspectives and make timely improvements.
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October 19, 2023 at 7:27 PM
Tip: Collecting useful #feedback from students mid-semester & thinking about how to make small adjustments to our courses #highered #teaching open.substack.com/pub/highered...