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Engaging Practices, Engaging Students: High-Impact Practices in Community Colleges Based on findings from focus groups conducted in colleges across the nation and the integration of results from its four complementary survey instruments, The Center for Community...
Retrospective
Our NMC community hosts a great many stories: history's lessons, tomorrow's dreams, and tales of triumph (and of other well-intentioned ideas yielding more modest results). We grow as colleagues share these stories. We're uplifted and energized; we help carry each...
4x4x16 Writing, Ice Cream, Education, and Maybe a Book
I was offered free ice cream for writing 16 sentences. I would have written more for less reward, so I guess NMC and I both thought we got a good deal. It was not that hard, considering that it was only about two sentences a day. Actually, it was less than that. ...
Afterthoughts
The blogging project, 4x4x16, allowed me to organize my thinking into structured frames. Each frame or blog served as a movement activity . This format seemed to bridge the gap between structured writing and creative journal writing. Furthermore, I was able to...