Nov 11, 2015
I saw Stephanie Mills a few months ago at the pool. Stephanie is a local author and former composition teacher here at NMC. We chatted about her writing and what was new in our lives. I mentioned that I was just beginning as the CIE director and I felt like there was...
Nov 9, 2015
[slideshow_deploy id=’7778’] Legislators, administrators and even we educators all spend a lot of time trying to “fix” education, but we rarely talk about what we mean when we say “education.” Faculty addressed this very question at our...
Oct 28, 2015
[slideshow_deploy id=’7527’] View pictures from the October PD Day. Thanks to everyone who attended and/or presented at this year’s October Professional Development Day. We got free admission to Dennos, made soup, connected to the Cloud, cut textbook...
Oct 28, 2015
When you hear “accountant” you might think boring, quiet, set in her ways, obsessive even. Accounting instructor Jane Zlojutro, however, is none of those things. She believes in taking risks and keeping class lively. “I’ll try anything,”...
Oct 28, 2015
Bronwyn Jones wrote this about lesson study for the October PD Day, “Originating in the US in the 1980’s, then migrating to Japan where it flourished, lesson study focuses on how instructors can impact and change student thinking as a means of catalyzing deeper...
