A number of FLCs got organized January 4th at the Mid-Year Conference, and they are taking off. A Faculty Learning Community is a group of faculty, staff, and/or other interested individuals who get together to investigate a question or pursue a topic of interest....
FLCs@NMC–This semester CIE and EMT are kicking off a new initiative: faculty learning communities. FLCs are a chance for colleagues to come together to investigate a topic or question. So far, eight FLCs have been proposed and are open to new members. A brief...
It’s been at least five years since I first read Carol Dweck’s Mindset, but it still informs many of my interactions with my students and my own children. This book has been around a while–you hear about it at conferences, we chose it as an NMC Reads...
Today in my ENG 99 class, I introduced an extra credit assignment for over the Thanksgiving weekend. The assignment is for students to download the StoryCorps app and record an interview this weekend with someone special in their lives. Then, they can join thousands...
When Katherine turned in her first assignment in ENG 97/107, I was shocked. The assignment was to write a page of free writing explaining something they were good at and how they got good at it. Most students wrote about a page–messy and full of errors, maybe,...
