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The Power of Failure: Our Own Authentic & Imperfect Selves
By Dr. Josef Vice Sharing our authentic selves with students can make us feel vulnerable, but it’s one strategy for ensuring equity in our classrooms and supporting our students’ identity development and writing skills. This blog post explores strategies teachers can implement to support all students in their quest to have their voices heard and…
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Environmentally Friendly: ADHD & Online Composition
By Dr. Michelle Bianco This blog explores the idea that online college composition requires a proactive, distraction-free learning environment that is intentionally organized for success. It emphasizes the importance of coaching students to create such an environment in their home spaces, with a particular focus on supporting students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who…
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The Rhetoric of Inclusion
By Dr. Jamie Thornton Many supporters initially feel that the rhetoric of inclusion is a way of communicating that avoids bias and discrimination against people and groups of people. Additionally, they believe this form of rhetoric can be made evident through altering (among other things) established patterns of speech, avoiding segregation of individuals into only…
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