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Nurturing Joy And Belonging: Practices For Rehumanizing Professional Learning, Katherine Egan Cunningham, Kristin N. Rainville
Nurturing Joy And Belonging: Practices For Rehumanizing Professional Learning, Katherine Egan Cunningham, Kristin N. Rainville
Education Faculty Publications
In this article the authors describe a professional learning initiative focused on joyful teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and the techniques that were used to foster a culture of belonging. The authors utilize an integrative framework for understanding, cultivating, and assessing belongingness to suggest implications for school-university partnerships. Finally, the authors pose questions for school-university partnerships to reflect upon to build an intersectional approach to professional learning in a post-pandemic educational landscape.
Teaching Responsively During Covid-19: Learning How To Model, Modeling How To Learn, Lindsay M. Keazer
Teaching Responsively During Covid-19: Learning How To Model, Modeling How To Learn, Lindsay M. Keazer
Education Faculty Publications
A teacher educator describes learning to teach responsively through the Covid-19 pandemic; shifting focus from secretly struggling to manage the upset of work/life balance, to living out the challenges in community with her students. By sharing struggles transparently rather than concealing, she found opportunities to connect with students about the complex challenges they were facing. This process was one of learning how to model empathetic education, and simultaneously modeling to future teachers how to learn to enact responsive pedagogies through unexpected challenges in teaching.