Should I Be My Students’ Teacher or Their Coach?
I just came out of a great conference. However, it wasn't a great conference because…
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Academy Fight Song
As your grades are coming in, you may be less than happy with how things…
Dr. Martin Luther King, “The Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” and IRAC?
Continuing from Professor Goldie Pritchard's excellent post yesterday regarding "Student Motivation and MLK Celebration Day,"…
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The Possible Empirical Value of the Computer-Disconnected Classroom Experience
Hat tip to Dr. Nancy Johnson! In a recently published article entitled "How Laptop Internet…
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History Lesson — Part II
Positive life change always arises out of a failure of some sort. Sometimes these failures…
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New Semester Preparation
For those Academic Support Professionals with year-round academic support and bar support responsibilities, there are…
Breaking Free from the Stress and Strains of Final Exams: Try Out the “Smile Loop!”
Wow. At long last, final exams are over...sort of. For most of us, we have…
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Take a Real Break
As my students wrap up the semester and head home, they are filled with excitement.…
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Everyday I Write the Book
If you are gearing up for final exams or the February Bar, one of the…
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Exams are coming!
Monday marks the first day of exams for 1L students at my institution and I…