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Essays, book notes, and research on compassion, education, well-being, and care.
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Now, I have to admit, as a PT educator, I have used both of these approaches, but never understood what they actually were. I never even realized they were two different approaches. I taught or assisted in teaching cours...
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When I lost over 200 pounds more than 20 years ago, I learned something fundamental about human motivation: engagement is an energy management problem. This insight, born from personal transformation rather than pedagogi...
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Do I belong? It's a question I've often contemplated, whether I realized it or not. Human beings are hardwired to seek social connections. In some cultures, the ultimate punishment is to be shunned. We long to belong, bu...
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Before the written word, before formal education systems, before PowerPoint presentations and learning management systems, there were stories. Storytellers held positions of honor in their communities, chosen not just fo...
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What if your teaching could be as valued as your research? What if the innovations you develop in your classroom could advance your career just like publishing in top journals? That's the promise of the Scholarship of Te...
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Every educator faces a fundamental tension: how to provide honest, rigorous feedback without crushing students' spirits. Too harsh, and we risk pushing learners away. Too soft, and we deny them the critical information t...
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) represents a fundamental reconceptualization of how we approach education in the 21st century. Rather than designing curricula for an imagined "average" student and then retrofitting a...
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A Universal Design for Learning Perspective on Belonging in Education
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Being called stupid sucks. Believing it is devastating.
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I used to be a 420-pound junk food addict. Now I'm a 200-pound vegan.
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In the opening lines of the Dhammapada, the Buddha proclaimed: "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." Millennia later, Mahatma Gandhi would echo this wisdo...
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Picture two classrooms down the hall from each other.
