Bridgett Williams-Searle
@profbridgett.bsky.social
Writer, early retiree, former associate professor of 18th/19th US history. UIowa PhD/COGS-UE. Former dementia caregiver. Boomer by birth, Gen x by grace of god. Book project on long emancipation and Black resistance in southern Indiana, 1780-1830.
It's a half anus...which considering the half-assed campaign he is likely to run, is fitting.
August 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's a half anus...which considering the half-assed campaign he is likely to run, is fitting.
Endured, withstood, tolerated…or, in the sense of waiting something out you can’t change, simply bided.
July 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Endured, withstood, tolerated…or, in the sense of waiting something out you can’t change, simply bided.
My first almost-date with John was at a Beausoleil gig!
July 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My first almost-date with John was at a Beausoleil gig!
Oh Jeff, staaaaap. That year smells like Aquanet, Giorgio, cigarettes, wet pavement, and black leather.
July 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Oh Jeff, staaaaap. That year smells like Aquanet, Giorgio, cigarettes, wet pavement, and black leather.
Did we raise the same child? I have a nearly identical piece of paper, triangle girls and all.
July 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Did we raise the same child? I have a nearly identical piece of paper, triangle girls and all.
She was not a musician. She was a buck dancer (and hot, and in the entourage of another act). My uncle Paul headed a band and MC’d and was a bluegrass dj and for complicated (marital disharmony with my dad’s little sister) reasons, my family was at most of his summer gigs for a few years.
May 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
She was not a musician. She was a buck dancer (and hot, and in the entourage of another act). My uncle Paul headed a band and MC’d and was a bluegrass dj and for complicated (marital disharmony with my dad’s little sister) reasons, my family was at most of his summer gigs for a few years.
Yeah, Keith had a thing for my mom (one of those circuit unrequited pursuit situations) and I spent a whole summer sitting on a cooler getting sunburned and listening to him muse about the trouble with getting what you thought you wanted. Ralph was a bad boss…
May 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Yeah, Keith had a thing for my mom (one of those circuit unrequited pursuit situations) and I spent a whole summer sitting on a cooler getting sunburned and listening to him muse about the trouble with getting what you thought you wanted. Ralph was a bad boss…
That year‘s band (Keith, Ricky, Curly Ray, Jack, Troy, and Ralph) was the apex of the Clinch Mountain Boys. Great tune.
May 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
That year‘s band (Keith, Ricky, Curly Ray, Jack, Troy, and Ralph) was the apex of the Clinch Mountain Boys. Great tune.
Overall, I’d say it served our students very well and led to stronger collegial ties with our School of Ed, but because it was an “Ed” degree, students were never perceived as part of our department’s majors even though they took more coursework with us than most of our disciplinary majors.
May 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Overall, I’d say it served our students very well and led to stronger collegial ties with our School of Ed, but because it was an “Ed” degree, students were never perceived as part of our department’s majors even though they took more coursework with us than most of our disciplinary majors.
As enrollment shrunk, our admin tended to ignore the shared nature of the major and when faculty cuts came, they were leveled obliviously to curricular demands of SSEd. We were able to argue for VAPs based on state certification requirements, but it didn’t protect our tenured/tenure-track faculty.
May 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As enrollment shrunk, our admin tended to ignore the shared nature of the major and when faculty cuts came, they were leveled obliviously to curricular demands of SSEd. We were able to argue for VAPs based on state certification requirements, but it didn’t protect our tenured/tenure-track faculty.
We co-planned the degrees and got them approved by State Ed so it would have been difficult for either party to grab a piece and run. However, that extra bureaucratic level also made it difficult to add anything new. And there was always a squabble over where to count the majors’ “home.”
May 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We co-planned the degrees and got them approved by State Ed so it would have been difficult for either party to grab a piece and run. However, that extra bureaucratic level also made it difficult to add anything new. And there was always a squabble over where to count the majors’ “home.”
We respected each other’s expertise. The only friction point was trying to keep credit load reasonable — no one wanted to cede credit hours, but we wound up with degrees roughly 2/5 content, 2/5 pedagogy/methods, and 1/5 gen ed by creatively double-counting some gen eds as content or p/m.
May 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We respected each other’s expertise. The only friction point was trying to keep credit load reasonable — no one wanted to cede credit hours, but we wound up with degrees roughly 2/5 content, 2/5 pedagogy/methods, and 1/5 gen ed by creatively double-counting some gen eds as content or p/m.
We had a steering committee with equal rep that met every semester to review the program and monitor student performance, external test results, new standards discussions etc. NY has a clear SSEd curricular framework and certification standards; we determined the content coursework from that.
May 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We had a steering committee with equal rep that met every semester to review the program and monitor student performance, external test results, new standards discussions etc. NY has a clear SSEd curricular framework and certification standards; we determined the content coursework from that.
My college closed (cue sad trombone) but we shared our SSEd — 36-48 credits of History and POS and other “content knowledge areas,” the pedagogy and methods in Ed. We had very strong programs and highly employable graduates.
May 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My college closed (cue sad trombone) but we shared our SSEd — 36-48 credits of History and POS and other “content knowledge areas,” the pedagogy and methods in Ed. We had very strong programs and highly employable graduates.
My daughter is exactly like my husband and also, somehow, precisely like me…all the while being a better secret third way forward.
April 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My daughter is exactly like my husband and also, somehow, precisely like me…all the while being a better secret third way forward.
Yeah, that sucks, but hurting people pointlessly is their MO. I’d bet that if you’re willing to move to upstate New York, Albany High would take you in a heartbeat.
February 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Yeah, that sucks, but hurting people pointlessly is their MO. I’d bet that if you’re willing to move to upstate New York, Albany High would take you in a heartbeat.
We picked up Bahn mi in Camden while walking around and I thought of you. Perfect sandwich.
February 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
We picked up Bahn mi in Camden while walking around and I thought of you. Perfect sandwich.
It looks like a Masonic cipher.
February 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It looks like a Masonic cipher.
I mean, the quality of direction, imagination, or script is not Ryan Coogler grade.
February 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I mean, the quality of direction, imagination, or script is not Ryan Coogler grade.
For me, it wasn’t Black Panther, but it was an ok movie. The plot is light, but there are some quality performances that make it better than the script.
February 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
For me, it wasn’t Black Panther, but it was an ok movie. The plot is light, but there are some quality performances that make it better than the script.
And then teach others.
February 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
And then teach others.