Dr. Cait S. Kirby
@caitskirby.bsky.social
Learning and teaching and writing about learning and teaching.
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🗓️ If you're interested in what I'm up to and want to chat, please feel free to get on my calendar via my Calendly link: calendly.com/caitskirby/c...
♨️ I am so happy to get together on Zoom over some tea.
♨️ I am so happy to get together on Zoom over some tea.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🗓️ If you're interested in what I'm up to and want to chat, please feel free to get on my calendar via my Calendly link: calendly.com/caitskirby/c...
♨️ I am so happy to get together on Zoom over some tea.
♨️ I am so happy to get together on Zoom over some tea.
Tomorrow from 12-1:30pm ET, I'll be leading a free session about using structure to promote student engagement.
I've given this workshop before, and many participants have told me it's helped them understand things about themselves, too.
I look forward to seeing you then!
I've given this workshop before, and many participants have told me it's helped them understand things about themselves, too.
I look forward to seeing you then!
This Friday, 10/10 from 12-1:30pm ET, I'll be hosting a virtual workshop.
If you're interested in learning a little about the window of tolerance, supporting student engagement, or connecting with other educators, this free session is for you!
westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you're interested in learning a little about the window of tolerance, supporting student engagement, or connecting with other educators, this free session is for you!
westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Tomorrow from 12-1:30pm ET, I'll be leading a free session about using structure to promote student engagement.
I've given this workshop before, and many participants have told me it's helped them understand things about themselves, too.
I look forward to seeing you then!
I've given this workshop before, and many participants have told me it's helped them understand things about themselves, too.
I look forward to seeing you then!
This Friday, 10/10 from 12-1:30pm ET, I'll be hosting a virtual workshop.
If you're interested in learning a little about the window of tolerance, supporting student engagement, or connecting with other educators, this free session is for you!
westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you're interested in learning a little about the window of tolerance, supporting student engagement, or connecting with other educators, this free session is for you!
westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This Friday, 10/10 from 12-1:30pm ET, I'll be hosting a virtual workshop.
If you're interested in learning a little about the window of tolerance, supporting student engagement, or connecting with other educators, this free session is for you!
westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If you're interested in learning a little about the window of tolerance, supporting student engagement, or connecting with other educators, this free session is for you!
westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This is happening this Friday! If you use group work or are considering using group work, this is a great session for you!
Making group work work can be hard...
Using group work in your classes can be so effective. But, if you've ever worked in a group before, you know that it can also be a nightmare.
Group work can be a nightmare when you're an adult with a degree and decades of emotional regulation practice... 1/5
Using group work in your classes can be so effective. But, if you've ever worked in a group before, you know that it can also be a nightmare.
Group work can be a nightmare when you're an adult with a degree and decades of emotional regulation practice... 1/5
July 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is happening this Friday! If you use group work or are considering using group work, this is a great session for you!
I led a session this week on the window of tolerance.
While you absolutely should not try to be your students' therapist -- really, don't do that!! -- it can be so helpful to recognize that your students have nervous systems and those nervous systems are not doing well rn.
While you absolutely should not try to be your students' therapist -- really, don't do that!! -- it can be so helpful to recognize that your students have nervous systems and those nervous systems are not doing well rn.
July 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I led a session this week on the window of tolerance.
While you absolutely should not try to be your students' therapist -- really, don't do that!! -- it can be so helpful to recognize that your students have nervous systems and those nervous systems are not doing well rn.
While you absolutely should not try to be your students' therapist -- really, don't do that!! -- it can be so helpful to recognize that your students have nervous systems and those nervous systems are not doing well rn.
Making group work work can be hard...
Using group work in your classes can be so effective. But, if you've ever worked in a group before, you know that it can also be a nightmare.
Group work can be a nightmare when you're an adult with a degree and decades of emotional regulation practice... 1/5
Using group work in your classes can be so effective. But, if you've ever worked in a group before, you know that it can also be a nightmare.
Group work can be a nightmare when you're an adult with a degree and decades of emotional regulation practice... 1/5
July 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Making group work work can be hard...
Using group work in your classes can be so effective. But, if you've ever worked in a group before, you know that it can also be a nightmare.
Group work can be a nightmare when you're an adult with a degree and decades of emotional regulation practice... 1/5
Using group work in your classes can be so effective. But, if you've ever worked in a group before, you know that it can also be a nightmare.
Group work can be a nightmare when you're an adult with a degree and decades of emotional regulation practice... 1/5
I recently led a session on moral injury and the pandemic. If you're feeling like you're being forced to do things that violate your moral code or witness your moral code being violated, you might be experiencing moral injury.
Educators, this applies to you, too.
You are not alone.
Educators, this applies to you, too.
You are not alone.
July 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I recently led a session on moral injury and the pandemic. If you're feeling like you're being forced to do things that violate your moral code or witness your moral code being violated, you might be experiencing moral injury.
Educators, this applies to you, too.
You are not alone.
Educators, this applies to you, too.
You are not alone.
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People are used to assuming that college-educated professionals will be able to find another job if they lose theirs. But when essentially all medical research in this country depends on federal funding, just at various levels of remove, there *are no other jobs* for everyone who just got fired.
July 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
People are used to assuming that college-educated professionals will be able to find another job if they lose theirs. But when essentially all medical research in this country depends on federal funding, just at various levels of remove, there *are no other jobs* for everyone who just got fired.
August is a fantastic time to get ready for the upcoming semester. Looking ahead, I've planned workshops all month.
Topics include group work, window of tolerance, hidden curriculum, accommodations, and mentorship. Sessions are designed for connection.
#EduSky #AcademicChatter
bit.ly/AW-2025
Topics include group work, window of tolerance, hidden curriculum, accommodations, and mentorship. Sessions are designed for connection.
#EduSky #AcademicChatter
bit.ly/AW-2025
July 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
August is a fantastic time to get ready for the upcoming semester. Looking ahead, I've planned workshops all month.
Topics include group work, window of tolerance, hidden curriculum, accommodations, and mentorship. Sessions are designed for connection.
#EduSky #AcademicChatter
bit.ly/AW-2025
Topics include group work, window of tolerance, hidden curriculum, accommodations, and mentorship. Sessions are designed for connection.
#EduSky #AcademicChatter
bit.ly/AW-2025
July is a really good time to start honing your cover letter and teaching statement.
For the month of July, I'm offering my 38-page how-to guide for just $10 to help you to start early.
Next tweet for table of contents #AcademicChatter #PhD #EduSky
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For the month of July, I'm offering my 38-page how-to guide for just $10 to help you to start early.
Next tweet for table of contents #AcademicChatter #PhD #EduSky
www.consulting.caitkirby.com/shop/p/acade...
Academic job search - how-to guide for written materials — Cait Kirby Consulting
This guide provides writing tips to help you develop engaging and compelling written materials for the academic job market.
www.consulting.caitkirby.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
July is a really good time to start honing your cover letter and teaching statement.
For the month of July, I'm offering my 38-page how-to guide for just $10 to help you to start early.
Next tweet for table of contents #AcademicChatter #PhD #EduSky
www.consulting.caitkirby.com/shop/p/acade...
For the month of July, I'm offering my 38-page how-to guide for just $10 to help you to start early.
Next tweet for table of contents #AcademicChatter #PhD #EduSky
www.consulting.caitkirby.com/shop/p/acade...
Thank you, Tolu!! I definitely have plans to keep exploring and expanding this notion of ideal and never feeling like we're enough.
@caitskirby.bsky.social, @mccreary.bsky.social, & @dradamame.bsky.social led an absolutely fantastic session at the 2025 Virtual Gathering for Educational Developers about shifting from the notion of "ideal" to "good enough"! #FacDev #EdDev #Gather2Resist25
June 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thank you, Tolu!! I definitely have plans to keep exploring and expanding this notion of ideal and never feeling like we're enough.
There are SO MANY people registered for the virtual gathering. We're getting close to 600 people now. This is incredible. #Gather2Resist25
If you haven't registered yet, there is still time! Go here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you haven't registered yet, there is still time! Go here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Virtual Gathering June 2025
The Virtual Gathering team (made up of disabled educational developers and allies) is happy to announce that registration is now open for the June 23-25, 2025 Second Annual Virtual Gathering! Registra...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There are SO MANY people registered for the virtual gathering. We're getting close to 600 people now. This is incredible. #Gather2Resist25
If you haven't registered yet, there is still time! Go here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you haven't registered yet, there is still time! Go here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Halfway through June?! This is a good time to start working on your academic job materials.
Here's a resource to help you write your materials, with insight I've gained while supporting early career faculty land their next role.
#HigherEd #EduSky
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Here's a resource to help you write your materials, with insight I've gained while supporting early career faculty land their next role.
#HigherEd #EduSky
www.consulting.caitkirby.com/shop/p/acade...
Academic job search - how-to guide for written materials — Cait Kirby Consulting
This guide provides writing tips to help you develop engaging and compelling written materials for the academic job market.
www.consulting.caitkirby.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Halfway through June?! This is a good time to start working on your academic job materials.
Here's a resource to help you write your materials, with insight I've gained while supporting early career faculty land their next role.
#HigherEd #EduSky
www.consulting.caitkirby.com/shop/p/acade...
Here's a resource to help you write your materials, with insight I've gained while supporting early career faculty land their next role.
#HigherEd #EduSky
www.consulting.caitkirby.com/shop/p/acade...
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TODAY’S THE BIG DAY! My book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, is now available for preorder! To learn more about the book, bonus item, & launch party, visit:
www.tolunoah.com/workshop-boo...
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev #EduSky #Facilitation #BookLaunch #TheWorkshopWheel
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev #EduSky #Facilitation #BookLaunch #TheWorkshopWheel
June 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
TODAY’S THE BIG DAY! My book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, is now available for preorder! To learn more about the book, bonus item, & launch party, visit:
www.tolunoah.com/workshop-boo...
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev #EduSky #Facilitation #BookLaunch #TheWorkshopWheel
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev #EduSky #Facilitation #BookLaunch #TheWorkshopWheel
This Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. I'm here to support you in making requests, responding to denials, and documenting to protect yourself. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
June 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. I'm here to support you in making requests, responding to denials, and documenting to protect yourself. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
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June 2025 professional learning opportunities for higher education instructors and educational developers: www.linkedin.com/pulse/june-2...
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev
June 2025 Professional Learning Opportunities
Each month, I curate lists of professional learning opportunities and calls for proposals that may be of interest to higher education instructors and educational developers. You can access the lists b...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
June 2025 professional learning opportunities for higher education instructors and educational developers: www.linkedin.com/pulse/june-2...
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev
#HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev
Academic job search thread:
🌞June is the perfect time to start drafting up job search materials. While this year's academic job ads won't be out for a few months, the time when those job ads are released is busy. Start of the semester, mid-term season, when you're grading. 1/4
🌞June is the perfect time to start drafting up job search materials. While this year's academic job ads won't be out for a few months, the time when those job ads are released is busy. Start of the semester, mid-term season, when you're grading. 1/4
June 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Academic job search thread:
🌞June is the perfect time to start drafting up job search materials. While this year's academic job ads won't be out for a few months, the time when those job ads are released is busy. Start of the semester, mid-term season, when you're grading. 1/4
🌞June is the perfect time to start drafting up job search materials. While this year's academic job ads won't be out for a few months, the time when those job ads are released is busy. Start of the semester, mid-term season, when you're grading. 1/4
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I will be offering some pedagogy-related workshops this summer, which I'll post about soon.
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
May 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I will be offering some pedagogy-related workshops this summer, which I'll post about soon.
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
I will be offering some pedagogy-related workshops this summer, which I'll post about soon.
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
May 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I will be offering some pedagogy-related workshops this summer, which I'll post about soon.
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
Saturday, June 7th at 2pm ET I'm offering a workshop about requesting workplace accommodations. My goal is to make this process less opaque. #Disability #Disabled #Accommodations
Link: bit.ly/RequestAccomms
If you have not heard back about your Virtual Gathering proposal, Gmail glitched and although we sent lots of emails, a lot of them did not go through. I've been resending them, but please reach out to me and I'll help you figure things out. Sorry for the inconvenience.
May 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
If you have not heard back about your Virtual Gathering proposal, Gmail glitched and although we sent lots of emails, a lot of them did not go through. I've been resending them, but please reach out to me and I'll help you figure things out. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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At one of the talks I was giving to college faculty last week I mused off the top of my head that the first handful of institutions that pivot AWAY from AI and promise a human/bespoke experience in their marketing will have a positioning advantage. Not everyone is looking for the AI-forward place.
May 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
At one of the talks I was giving to college faculty last week I mused off the top of my head that the first handful of institutions that pivot AWAY from AI and promise a human/bespoke experience in their marketing will have a positioning advantage. Not everyone is looking for the AI-forward place.
I wrote a little tiny more about this, mostly providing a preview of a post about those among us who are lightning rods.
Have you subscribed to my Substack, yet? Go check out this post and then read my article in Zeal.
undaunted.caitkirby.com/p/zeal-invit...
Have you subscribed to my Substack, yet? Go check out this post and then read my article in Zeal.
undaunted.caitkirby.com/p/zeal-invit...
May 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I wrote a little tiny more about this, mostly providing a preview of a post about those among us who are lightning rods.
Have you subscribed to my Substack, yet? Go check out this post and then read my article in Zeal.
undaunted.caitkirby.com/p/zeal-invit...
Have you subscribed to my Substack, yet? Go check out this post and then read my article in Zeal.
undaunted.caitkirby.com/p/zeal-invit...
The Virtual Gathering's proposal submission period is now closed.
While we review proposals and put together a fantastic lineup of brilliant scholars, don't forget to register for the free, accessibility-first virtual gathering!
While we review proposals and put together a fantastic lineup of brilliant scholars, don't forget to register for the free, accessibility-first virtual gathering!
May 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Virtual Gathering's proposal submission period is now closed.
While we review proposals and put together a fantastic lineup of brilliant scholars, don't forget to register for the free, accessibility-first virtual gathering!
While we review proposals and put together a fantastic lineup of brilliant scholars, don't forget to register for the free, accessibility-first virtual gathering!
I wrote something! @cjdenial.bsky.social wrote such a lovely, thoughtful, warm book about kindness as a pedagogy. It was a delight to read her work, and an invitation to find myself in writing something back.
Thank you, Cate for your words, and @robinfield.bsky.social for your editorial work.
Thank you, Cate for your words, and @robinfield.bsky.social for your editorial work.
In this issue of Zeal, you'll find an Author Meets Critics forum on A Pedagogy of Kindness by @cjdenial.bsky.social, with responses from @sdraucker.bsky.social, @lcsantangelo.bsky.social, @caitskirby.bsky.social, and Shannon Cupido, as well as Cate's response. zeal.kings.edu/zeal
Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts
Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts is an online, open-access journal with the mission of inspiring and fostering scholarship that supports and advances the liberal arts. The journal specializes in p...
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May 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I wrote something! @cjdenial.bsky.social wrote such a lovely, thoughtful, warm book about kindness as a pedagogy. It was a delight to read her work, and an invitation to find myself in writing something back.
Thank you, Cate for your words, and @robinfield.bsky.social for your editorial work.
Thank you, Cate for your words, and @robinfield.bsky.social for your editorial work.
Reposted by Dr. Cait S. Kirby
And what better place to talk about alternative grading than at the Grading Conference, June 11--13? 😄
May 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
And what better place to talk about alternative grading than at the Grading Conference, June 11--13? 😄