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Remember What the Dormouse Said…

. Another druggy story, and I confess that they chafe at me–for some reason even more so than the other common undergraduate greatest hits: the bad relationship, the teen vampire, the travails of the...

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The Incident: A Conversation

A while back, at the end of a post I wrote a “teaser,” promising to tell the story of an incident in one of my undergraduate classes.  I made a number of false starts before abandoning the post,...

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The Incident: The Conversation Continues

Here’s Carla Baku: I have written about teaching frustrations. Why? In part, for the same reason that any of us talk about frustrations at work—to vent a little, perhaps to get a validating virtual pat...

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The Incident: Deuced

Among other unfortunate meanings, deuce, for a while at least, was the term for what happened to a colleague when the administration didn’t care for what was written on a blog.  Needless to say the 1st...

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The Incident: We’ve Got Each Other’s Back

A wonderful comment on an earlier post talked about the importance of empathy. I responded with an acknowledgement of empathy’s sometimes nemesis: frustration. Here’s Carla Baku reminding us that...

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The Incident: Another Quarter Heard From

Sometimes these things are just in the air. On his blog yesterday, J. Robert Lennon weighed in on the matter at hand: I was surprised this week at the responses to a friend’s facebook post about...

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The Incident: From Yet Another Quarter, Guest Blogger Randall Brown

Randall tells you how he found his way to this conversation, and then, in the compassionate voice that is the hallmark of good teaching, delineates his own boundaries. It began, as so many things do in...

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The Incident: Kids Say the Darndest Things

  Let us concede, then, our shared contempt for haters, those trolls we all know who for whatever reason get off on derision and ridicule.  I must also concede, however, the honorable intentions of...

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The Incident: Another Voice

My colleague, Cara Diaconoff, weighs in, extending the conversation beyond the confines of social media, considering another of the many ways we discuss our students. I’ve been interested to read the...

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The Incident: Summing Up

The incident that prompted the series of posts on this thread concerned one of the most complicated teaching challenges of my long career.  I have shared with a few friends and colleagues the specifics...

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