By Ryan Donovan

In my second year of grad school, I came close to quitting to become a professional dog trainer. I became so excited by teaching my dog, understanding how dogs learn, and the ethical and […]

By Ryan Donovan

Occupying the dual roles of graduate student and professor is simultaneously exciting and challenging. Working to find a balance between research and teaching is an ongoing process that shifts […]

Pre-1920’s, pre Machinal: 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, 15th Amendment (universal male suffrage)- and 1886 AERA (written by Lucy Stone, Fredrick Douglas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, looking […]

I could only hope that my students got half as much out of our semester together as I did as a result of participating in “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education.” Being a part of this experiment was a profound […]

Hi all,
Here are two resources I have been meaning to share:
KQED’s MindShift blog. This is a wonderful resource from the Bay Area’s public radio station, and though many of the articles are geared for K-12 it’s […]

In last week’s session on “Embodiment and the Classroom,” I briefly spoke about the lifelong importance of play after we had done two exercises that incorporated elements of play. Play is often used in K-12 […]

Students in Hunter College’s Intro to Theatre course were assigned to see a performance of their choice and write a reflection on their experience. This map (still in progress) links the individual reflections […]

Our class sessions on Professors & Persistence got me thinking about the role of forgiveness in the classroom, particularly inspired by writer Anne Lamott‘s essay on “shitty first drafts.” In this essay, Lamott […]

Yesterday’s class session with John Mogalescu, Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs at CUNY, was really wonderful, inspiring, and a bit troubling, but I’ll get to that in a minute. The undeniably astounding […]

As we worked on our assessment units in class, I began to think about how assessment follows us from birth to death. For many of us, the first words we’ll hear are “It’s a (insert gender pronoun here)!” And as I […]