This spring I decided to focus on revising my section of Tackling a Wicked Problem (TWP), one of first year courses offered in our General Education program at Plymouth State University. Each section of TWP focuses on a wicked problem. The last several times I taught this course, our focus was the climate crisis. When…
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Using Pressbooks to Curate Course Readings
As I mentioned in previous posts, New Year, New Blog & 2.5 Weeks + 7 Books= Emerging Ideas About Play, one aspect of my work for sabbatical focuses on learning more about play and considering how this information will influence my approach to the course Play and Learning in Early Childhood (ER 2155), a Wellness…
New Year, New Name
I am two weeks into my sabbatical. As I read and work on my project, I know that there will be times when I will benefit from sharing my emerging ideas with others. I started this blog as a way to process my thinking from my involvement with the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC). My…
Some Thoughts about my Journey with the CPLC
My learning with the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC) began in May of 2019. Although this is just a year and half ago, my perspective about teaching and learning has shifted greatly during this time. Of course, the pandemic has forced me to think about my teaching, but it is much more than this historical…
ACE Framework: What I needed without realizing it
I have done my share of worrying about the fall semester. There are many things that I don’t have control over and this can be very challenging in the midst of a pandemic. The uncertainty makes it difficult to focus on planning for the fall semester. The more I read about teaching during this crisis,…
CPLC Season 2 & COVID-19
I very excited to continue my learning with the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC) this summer with Season 2 of this professional learning community. I look forward to learning from colleagues that I got to know in the last year as well as faculty that will be joining the CPLC for the first time. We…
Sociality & Remote Learning
My work for Season 1 of the CPLC was to end in April with a reflection of one of the chapters from Joshua R. Eyler’s book How Humans Learn. With the shift to remote learning, this task dropped to the bottom of my list. Recently, I found time to start reading Eyler’s text and I…
What am I doing? A reflection on my CPLC goals
Next week, I attend the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators where I will share my perspective about being a member of the CPLC and how this learning community shapes my work with preservice teachers. As I prepare for this presentation, I think about the work that I engaged in during the…
A Year in Practice: Synthesis & Vision
I started this blog as a way to communicate my thinking as I worked with colleagues as part of the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC). We have spent the summer learning together about interdisciplinary, project-based learning, and open education or what we are calling Cluster Pedagogy. We met four times face-to-face as a group and…
CAMT & Tackling a Wicked Problem
A couple weeks ago, I presented at the Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT) in San Antonio, TX. I have spent the last several years going to this conference because it gives me the opportunity to not only visit Texas, where I lived for 13 years, but also to learn from presenters from…