CUNY Academic Commons | Jenn Polish | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jpolish/activity/ Activity feed for Jenn Polish. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 264ed60717604e5792a51997865e370d Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=238 Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:33:55 -0400 From consent-based pedagogical practices to assigning fan fiction in my first-year composition class, this has been a year of delving deep into what anti-ableist pedagogy means to me, and how emotional health […]

]]> 23373c83bf406ec61d6e1836d3cc8b19 Jenn Polish commented on the post, Reformulating Our Assignment..., on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/04/02/reformulating-our-assignment/#comment-87 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:51:08 -0400 Justin,

This looks super to me — I love how the “high-stakes” assignment is so specifically scaffolding in that by the time it’s due, it’s pretty much already been done (vis a vis all the reaction posts and […]

]]> 91bffcbb9d4e7a6c07d43524c40a6411 Jenn Polish commented on the post, Reflective Post 3/30, on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/03/30/reflective-post-3-30/#comment-86 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:47:34 -0400 LaRose,

Looks cool — I’m excited to hear how the reformulation goes, and to get more details about how it impacts the classroom! I’m also wondering how you would define “best practices” after reflecting on […]

]]> c8588a55b6570871966725b6aae85a7f Jenn Polish commented on the post, Collaborative learning as an anti-ableist and inclusive teaching practice, on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/03/31/collaborative-learning-anti-ableist-inclusive-teaching-practice/#comment-85 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:45:19 -0400 Dusana,

This looks awesome — my favorite part of your assignment is the way the students present works in progress rather than “finished” versions. You noted that it seems to significantly decrease students’ […]

]]> 64723b66028fc54fb140d6131e869160 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=229 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:12:52 -0400 Last term, I wrote about something I was doing with my theatre class. It was a consent-based model of participation and assessment, which I use in all my classes but make physically explicit in my theatre class. T […]

]]> 05f131ffd5a8f13ca7ef69028921e0fc Jenn Polish changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/497412/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:06:38 -0400 32b7589ea54c6763520fcbfb0edb255d Jenn Polish changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/495623/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:33:03 -0400 b4119760f165c158198dedf10bee0db4 Jenn Polish's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/495622/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:32:09 -0400 d2999c3bbd5172924607a54edf37d84f Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=207 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:39:57 -0500 Last term, as a pilot faculty member with the Designing for All project, I joined my colleagues in creating a low-stakes assignment for a course that I hoped would increase access to my classroom. I have publicly […]

]]> 4e4a27f7d700c65e843e85073bf2ff17 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=170 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:30:45 -0500 While our five magnificent DfA student leaders work on designing their bios for our site, as well as the student survey we intend to conduct during Fall II, they’ve given me consent to draft our meeting notes into […]

]]> f0a173845e49e123bf6f3f05a735ba59 Jenn Polish's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/477999/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:23:14 -0500 ce2a70e8984c0b79765c3707b377042f Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=151 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:39:26 -0400 On October 4th, our team (sans our wonderful students, whose selection will be publicly announced soon!) met on campus to explore the resources already available at LaGuardia and connect the dots between our […]

]]> 5864daf589486269605dcdd51490a5b1 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability https://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=188 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:01:10 -0400 This piece is cross-posted on the Designing for All (DfA) project page (and the CUNY Humanities Alliance blog): this is a project I’m co-coordinating with the Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia […]

]]> 7f363aa34360198c73c7996d76c5c42c Jenn Polish's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/474331/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:59:10 -0400 51c732afa57f704d127ba741237ca96b Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=147 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:39:22 -0400 Things that other people generally find low-stakes? I often find my pulse thrumming extra hard and my clothes starting to get soaked with sweat and my brain hitting a loop of “I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, I don’t […]

]]> 62569c73c65ea40e267524cdb78c2a60 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=118 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:20:12 -0400 Universal Design for Learning — often, referred to as Universal Design because of its origins outside of the classroom — is a pedagogical approach based on the idea that learning is a process that is facilitated […]

]]> 481a4c5e3383617f95d48e780eedde55 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=85 Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:00:56 -0400 Part-time Job and Learning Opportunity:
STUDENT LEADERS for Paid Advocacy positions
APPLY BY SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Are you a LaGuardia student living with dis/abilities? And/or have you advocated for improved […]

]]> dcb604c1219c6590eca0344e3ef072e1 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=995 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:00:11 -0400 By Jenn Polish
For the final installment of this series on mental health in college classrooms, I’d like to shift the focus to ourselves as instructors, and consider how those of us with dis/abilities navigate b […]

]]> 615607661e0d6c7302d64f2b7e997415 Jenn Polish's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/466558/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:54:41 -0400 90fc913eb301af55c95a18c6e50c1484 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=993 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:30:02 -0400 By Jenn Polish
This post will focus on developing anti-racist and anti-ableist modes of assessment, and how things like contract grading can be a way for students to create their own forms of success in […]

]]> 98f9836c1f50397bfad459357ceb29c6 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=991 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:45:52 -0400 By Jenn Polish
Throughout this series, I’ve argued that anti-ableist practices in our classrooms should begin before the first day of term: before we’ve met our students, before students are forced to either “ou […]

]]> 2a9d68758e6e621c1823ade08076c270 Jenn Polish's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/465955/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:44:11 -0400 c5772e7353c51aedac3b846c8762d2ca Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability https://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=186 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 05:41:32 -0400 This is cross-posted with Teach@CUNY’s Visible Pedagogy site.
Too often, we encounter the refrain that “professors are not therapists.” This is generally true, and a reminder of the importance of healthy bou […]

]]> 85d2b46c351fbe914f89d22989625362 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=60 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:51:08 -0400 Coming soon! Stay tuned!

]]> 47674c8a952eb5f9d86b85d32b37bd65 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=58 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:50:39 -0400 Margaret Price’s blog is always worth a read, for her latest presentations and published work on mental health, bodymind, teaching, and the academic environment.

CUNY’s own Andrew Lucchesi has maintained an […]

]]> 3fe1eddb737ce3f0ca9c8048cd3b928b Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All https://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=46 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:23:07 -0400 Note: This post comes with the disclaimer found elsewhere on the site. Much scholarship focusing on UDL currently does not adequately attend to the intersectional needs of students of color and the ways that […]

]]> 714f736884a8b26b660e62deff8e290b Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability https://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=183 Mon, 29 May 2017 18:35:03 -0400 (Cross-posted from the Teach@Cuny Project’s Visible Pedagogy site, here)

Too often, we encounter the refrain that “professors are not therapists.” This is generally true, and a reminder of the importance of hea […]

]]> 833e25bc0d99603685fc9d4940718e5d Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability https://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=178 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:34:52 -0400 (cross-posted on the CUNY Humanities Alliance site, here.)

At LaGuardia, English 102 — the second composition course — is called Writing through Literature. We need to teach three genres throughout the course […]

]]> 6453e7e16e2ecc2da56d3bd728294e2a Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=808 Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:21:45 -0400 By Jennifer Polish
Too often, we encounter the refrain that “professors are not therapists.” This is generally true, and a reminder of the importance of healthy boundaries and self-care. At the same time, thi […]

]]> db1f22889de123b9171d0bcfa5ca2416 Jenn Polish changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/460520/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:21:38 -0400 8a0150397c52585345ab6bee0a457218 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All http://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=34 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:01:04 -0400 Note: This post comes with the disclaimer found elsewhere on the site. Most scholarship focusing on UDL currently does not adequately attend to the intersectional needs of students of color and the ways that […]

]]> 1e4006f59b148560ac28c57b3e5904d8 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All http://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=32 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:00:35 -0400 Modality in Motion: Disability & Kairotic Spaces

]]> 58f731ebe2a844214e1890ca342b8f82 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All http://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=30 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:59:46 -0400 deeaeb0b8fa3668f9953f9c417549ec4 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Designing for All http://designing4all.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=23 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:53:13 -0400 As this is going to be an ever-growing process, I’d love for this post to be the first of many must-reads.

The texts that follow are texts that I believe are absolutely indispensable to professors working […]

]]> 9f405679e90a5608f6e93d972fab1ae5 Jenn Polish created the site Designing for All https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/459841/ Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:08:30 -0400 2bcd7797c5bae910c13f80d17e0092eb Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=175 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:57:32 -0400 Cross-posted from the Teach @ CUNY project Visible Pedagogy, here.

This blog post is coming later than it should be. My BPD (borderline personality dis/order), my depression, my anxiety, hit peak levels during […]

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This blog post is coming later than it should be. My BPD (borderline personality dis/order), my depression, my anxiety, hit peak levels during the time I was supposed to be writing this: a […]

]]> a18f0a2d533a938c8f92bf2cb34d7c02 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site Visible Pedagogy http://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=658 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:03:24 -0400 Series Curator: Jennifer Polish
Whether we think about it as we plan our lessons or not, dis/ability is a constant and contributing presence in all of our classrooms. Especially because learning differences, […]

]]> 2207a787e226988cd69524150815e8fd Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=169 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:15:39 -0500 Kaysi Holman and Jennifer Polish

December 2nd, 2016

CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

As the CUNY Humanities Alliance website gets built out, it’s important to point out — […]

]]> 598c5ffc72bcf0f3b90452ea425e0c7d Jenn Polish joined the group Post-Election Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/448287/ Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:33:02 -0500 41dbd34b5524894af55b15b45b3b319f Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=164 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 02:28:39 -0400 Thomas R. Watson Conference, 2016 

Mobility Work in Composition: Translation, Migration, Transformation

“Affective Whiteness and the Rhetorics of Linguistic Mobility in Writing Classrooms”

by Jennifer […]

]]> 5654309b3e0e8fdd44583acbd94a7c02 Jenn Polish's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/441935/ Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:51:32 -0400 b0311a83161b61d0e8062db630f6482f Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=157 Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:01:30 -0400 Sometimes, my orals readings synthesize as I’m reading them, where they sort of blend together — in a generative sense — and I find myself writing about a hodgepodge of readings all tied together.

Other […]

]]> 3811f18c5afbe5b042122cecaf59134b Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=151 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:53:00 -0400 I often chortle way too hard, and way too long, at my own jokes. Especially at my own puns. So when in the title, I write of Compulsory Affective Labor in Comp Classrooms, I do intend the pun: comp meaning […]

]]> b79ce892c7432adcad95b735d997ec1f Jenn Polish's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/438168/ Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:06:30 -0400 460154ae92fa76e36c52b5f8f9f48a78 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=140 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:04:10 -0400 When I read (and write) YA literature, I do so with a constant tendency to think of how we conceive of “cures” culturally. Whether squinting at PrEP ads on the subway (which of course is preventative rather tha […]

]]> 1f703c40ac183f995366c46ad5e51530 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=136 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:19:14 -0400 Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson’s “Rethinking Rhetoric through Mental Disabilities” offers important insight into the pervasive ways that assumptions of rhetorical/communication norms fundamentally impact who is con […]

]]> 3055032966e744a5fba6868a72938ec1 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=124 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:34:10 -0400 Jennifer Polish
CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY Queens College
March 25, 2016
UConn Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Storrs, CT
Please feel free to interact with the digital version of this […]

]]> 755231bf154a40cebdcc3895ced9b182 Jenn Polish wrote a new post on the site (De)Composing Dis/Ability http://decomposing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=121 Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:06:25 -0400 “A language comes into existence by means of brutal necessity, and the rules of the language are dictated by what the language must convey.
There was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my […]

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