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This professor uses an online forum to give students who are uncomfortable speaking in class a space where they can contribute their thoughts. Students report that it's useful and the professor reports that all students who used the forum did eventually speak in class. (It occurs to me that Moodle's "anonymous" and group-based forum options might help mitigate some of the social pressures.)

Even when a discussion of evidentiary standards or fallacious reasoning is beyond the scope of a course, the occasional introduction of relevant articles from responsible journalistic sources can help contribute to a student's information literacy.

On the GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning website, Patrik Hultberg of Kalamazoo College discusses working memory, long-term memory, and cognitive load, as they relate to course design.

The concepts of "differential courage" and "courage is contagious" seem like valuable additions to discussions about mindset and "grit."

Concrete suggestions for how to start class on the day after a major event.

A fair number of faculty have told me that their remote teaching experience showed the benefits of a more flexible syllabus. Here's one example of how to give students options for a final paper/project, but the most important part may be the discussion of how Professor Katopodis generates these options with her students.

This article came up at our recent lunch discussion on culturally responsive teaching. When we talk about students and resilience, are we fully informed about what things outside the classroom might be drawing on their abilities, and how they've been taught to act with "grit" in other situations?

As we think about the role of sustainability for the College and our curriculum, this panel discussion on addressing environmental justice in the curriculum makes for good listening.

A powerful discussion about overcoming student and institutional biases on the first day of class.

Specific scripts you can practice so you have an answer at the ready when conflict arises in the classroom.