Using Padlet for Synchronous and Asynchronous Engagement
Professor Kate Lakin-Schultz introduces Padlet, a free, online whiteboard and collaboration tool that is easy to use for both students and instructors for in class and at home engagement with course...
View ArticleBringing Lessons Learned from Prison to Campus
Overview In this Lightning Talk presentation, Professor André de Quadros shares his long experience working in marginalized settings such as prisons, refugee shelters, and war zones. His encounters in...
View ArticlePrioritizing Community Partnerships Can Naturally Create A Social Justice Lens
Overview This Lightning Talk presentation highlights a fall 2021 partnership during between Professor Kaytlin Eldred’s course HS 349: Cultural Humility, Racial Justice, and Health and BU’s MetroBridge...
View ArticleLand Acknowledgements: Why and How
Overview In this Lightning Talk presentation, Ty Furman provides a brief review of why land acknowledgements are important and how to construct one. Interested in exploring other teaching and...
View ArticleJustice Oriented Solidarity
Overview In this Lightning Talk presentation, Dr. Jackson highlights the importance of classrooms becoming a site of hope and resistance. She will briefly discuss previous and current research that...
View ArticleFrom Wheelock to BU: Perspectives on Grading and Gatekeeping in Math
Overview Debbie Borkovitz, Clinical Professor of Mathematics and Education, taught math to mostly math-phobic students at Wheelock College for 25 years before she started teaching mostly STEM majors at...
View ArticleRethinking Grading Using DEI Frameworks
Overview Marie McDonough, a lecturer in the BU College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program, shares critiques of traditional grading through a DEI lens and considers how alternative grading practices...
View ArticleReducing Coding Anxiety through Self-Assessment (and Drag Queens): Ungrading...
Overview Christopher Schmitt, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology, knows that learning coding and statistics is daunting. We learn at different paces and panic when graded on unfamiliar...
View ArticleRethinking grading in STEM: Equity, Access, and Opportunity
Overview Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering, has spent his tenure teaching while investigating how grading practices in STEM can reinforce inequity and reward privilege, resulting in...
View ArticleThree Different Ways to Ungrade: Contract Grading, Completion Grading, and...
Molly Monet-Viera, a Master Lecturer of Spanish, has been teaching all levels of Spanish language and culture at Boston University since 2011. During this time, she has learned and tried different...
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