2021 Employee of Excellence Award
Just got this in the mail for my work on the Antiracism and Inclusion Alliance [AIA] Committee. I am proud to stand in alliance with my minoritized colleagues and do the hard work in support of antiracism.
2021 Massachusetts Colleges Online Conference
I presented at the Massachusetts Colleges Online Conference on June 2, 2021 based on my article published in Faculty Focus Meet Them Where They Are: Furthering Your Own Cultural Humility and Responsive Teaching the MCO session had participants brainstorming & sharing ideas to inject curriculum and pedagogical approaches into online course design covering the humanizing […]
Book Clubs: Allow You to Meet Your Faculty Where They Are
Today, Faculty Focus published an article I wrote based on a poster I designed last summer. Book clubs, have been one of the most successful faculty professional development activities I’ve been involved in and I highly recommend them. While only a few months of time have passed, since writing this article, I am seeing new […]
Let’s Not Return to the Old Normal
This conversation seems to be popping up in every one of my networks. We can not expect to return to what was. We must strive to transform our future. If your institution expects life to return to normal post-pandemic, disappointment lies ahead. Even with vaccines and a presidential administration strongly committed to traditional higher education, […]
STCC Invests in Digital Literacy Skills During Pandemic
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Springfield Technical Community College had a long-term plan to ramp up online and digital learning. But then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced instructional designers working as part of STCC’s Center for Online and Digital Learning to move faster than they ever imagined. To maintain the safety of students, faculty and staff, STCC moved classes […]
STCC Prepares to Deliver Exceptional Online Learning Experience
When students log in virtually on the first day of the new fall semester, they will begin an online learning experience that Springfield Technical Community College educators have been fine tuning all summer. Online learning offers flexibility and quality Mary Wiseman and Kyle Kraus, instructional designers at STCC, worked one-on-one with faculty to help them […]
STCC Around – Online Classes @STCC
STCC Around learn about online learning. June 16, 2020 radio interview.
Meet Them Where They Are!
Hello, The title of my EDU7244 curriculum poster is: Meet Them Where They Are! My essential question is: How can online faculty design their course curricular and pedagogical approaches to engage Hispanic students? The first version has bold-face-font on the authors. I thought that helped define and break up the body copy.
Finding Your Way – Hess’s Tips for Education Reformers
Excerpt from the Finding My Way article Letters to a Young Education Reformer (2017) by Hess. Jobs aren’t forever: step in, do some good, learn, grow and meet people Value in working from the inside and the outside. Opportunities as arrayed along a continuum that spans from inside to outside the halls of power. Insiders are […]
College UnBound
August 16, 2020 my classmate Brandee Idleman and I reviewed the text College (Un) Bound by Jeffery J. Selingo. This text is a bit dated [2013] however, its ideas ring true now in 2020. Listen to our thoughts.