For resources, recommendations and more information about this episode’s host and guest(s), visit the episode 636 page on the Teaching in Higher Ed website.

For resources, recommendations and more information about this episode’s host and guest(s), visit the episode 635 page on the Teaching in Higher Ed website.

For resources, recommendations and more information about this episode’s host and guest(s), visit the episode 634 page on the Teaching in Higher Ed website.

Beth Cougler Blom on how teaching and facilitation skills are built in life’s ordinary moments — noticing, saying hello first, and staying curious.
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Quotes from the episode

When you love what you do, you see it everywhere.
-Beth Cougler Blom

I’m here in Canada, and I’m on the West Coast, and there’s so many people learning here all the time about how to be living and working in a diverse community.
-Beth Cougler Blom

If we hone our noticing skills, then we can notice what’s going on with ourselves when we’re teaching.
-Beth Cougler Blom

When I make a mistake, often, I’ll tell the group, because that’s how we all learn too.
-Beth Cougler Blom
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Resources

• Everyday Acts of Facilitation, by Beth Cougler Blom
• Design to Engage, by Beth Cougler Blom
• Facilitating on Purpose Podcast
• BCB Learning Inc.
• Scarlett Johansson Has a Trick for Answering Questions (Dorie Clark)
• How Librarians Find Their Next Read (Instagram)
• ClassPass
• Jazzercise
• Your Brain on Art, by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

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Bethany Morrison shares civic professionalism and how disciplinary identity shapes civic discourse on episode 632 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

Democracy needs to be born every generation. We can’t just assume it… Every generation, we have to kind of rebirth it, and it has to happen in our schools.
-Bethany Morrison

One of the principles that we often recommend is setting some community discussion guidelines, talking together as a classroom community about how we want things to go when those hot moments come up later.
-Bethany Morrison

Not saying anything has meaning too. So if you don’t say anything, you are making a decision, and students are going to read that to mean it was okay.
-Bethany Morrison

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Resources

• Promoting Democracy, Fostering Skills (Bethany Morrison, CRLT Substack)
• Selecting Classroom Activities for Promoting Democracy (Bethany Morrison, CRLT Substack)
• Promoting Democracy Teaching Series (Ginsberg Center)
• How My Profession Influences Policy: Assignment Guide and Instructions
• A Framework for Planning and Facilitating High-Stakes Discussions
• Making the Most of “Hot Moments” in the Classroom (CRLT Handout)
• Talking Maize & Blue (University of Michigan)
• Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)
• Ginsberg Center for Community and Civic Engagement
• Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, by Donna Hicks
• UMICH Votes
• AllSides
• Finch

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Jeff Kim shares how faculty can use video in our teaching and make it sustainable on episode 631 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

You raise what you praise. So through these vlogs, you’ll see me not complaining, but actually praising a lot.
-Jeff Kim

Sometimes people can feel a little bit wary about being on social media; they know that the way that I’m going to produce the video is going to be in such a way that’s uplifting.
-Jeff Kim

A vision that I have for my channel is helping students to find out what they’re good at so that they can do good with it.
-Jeff Kim
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Resources

• Dr. Jeffrey Kim, Irvine Unified School District Board of Education
• The EdFamily YouTube Channel
• E222: How to create YOUR YouTube Video in 5 Easy Steps
• EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: Cambridge Virtual Academy (CVA)
• EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: Education for Love and Wisdom Book
• EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: Understanding the Roots of Saigu
• EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: BTS — Behind the Scenes on the School Board
• Mendez Freedom Trail Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, April 14, 2026 (Sylvia Mendez Day)
• E427: Seoul Station to Busan, Korea by KTX Train (Day 8) — Jeff’s Most Viewed Video
• Cambridge Virtual Academy, Anaheim Union High School District
• Korean American Studies Course at Anaheim Union High School District (EdSource)
• Mendez Freedom Trail Brings Landmark Desegregation Case to Life for OC Students (OCDE Newsroom)
• Mendez Tribute Monument Park and Freedom Trail (City of Westminster)
• Sylvia Mendez (Britannica Biography)
• Mendez v. Westminster: The Final Ruling, 75 Years Later (OCDE Newsroom)
• OCDE (Orange County Department of Education)
• Education for Love and Wisdom: Effective Teachers for Challenging Times, by Jeff Hittenberger, Pamela Tupy Scott, Andrew Ntzouras, Renee Rose, Alexander Lin, Jeffrey Kim, Joanne Van Boxtel, Megan Chaney, Rebecca Spady, Glen Warren, Christine Hittenberger-Corbin, Seon Chun-Burbank
• Education for Love and Wisdom Podcast
• Love, Wisdom, and Human Flourishing in Education, with Jeff Hittenberger (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 541)
• Vanguard University School of Education
• California State University, Fullerton — College of Education
• Faith and Community Empowerment (FACE)
• Asian Pacific Islander School Board Members Association (APISBMA)
• Think Media on YouTube
• Alan Levine — CogDogBlog
• Civic Access Pouch 2L (Evergoods)
• POD Conference Fumbling and Evergoods Access Pouch (YouTube)
• Poll Everywhere

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Anna Mills shares Peer and AI Review and Reflection, plus a layered approach to writing feedback on episode 630 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

My sense of the value of feedback has not changed. It’s more important than ever, more meaningful than ever, when we do have that connection through words.
-Anna Mills

I think overall I’ve advocated for more sort of technical support for transparency about what is AI and what is not.
-Anna Mills

Students preferred both the peer and the AI feedback. They did not want one or the other.
-Anna Mills

AI companies should be designing so that their agents don’t go in and say, “I’m a student taking a quiz.”
-Anna Mills

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Resources

• Poll Everywhere
• AXL 2026 Keynote with Alex Vasquez
• Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents, Modern Language Association
• Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR), UC Davis Writing Program
• Contradictory Feedback Chatbot on PlayLab
• Anna Mills on Amazon vs. Perplexity and Distinguishing Agentic AI Bots from Humans (LinkedIn)
• Anna Mills on Judge Orders Perplexity to Stop AI Agents (LinkedIn)
• More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner
• Jellyboard
• Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication
• MyEssayFeedback.ai
• AI and College Writing: An Orientation

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Luke Green uses the Santa Claus story to rethink what grades measure and the case for ungrading on episode 629 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

Each student at some point throughout their academic career is going to receive a grade, receive some sort of an assessment that is going to fundamentally alter how they feel about the classroom.
-Luke Green

The narrative that we sell to our kids is that these gifts are earned. The metric is, those who are good children or better children, you receive more.
-Luke Green

What are grades, and what purpose do we want them to serve?
-Luke Green

Usually, it’s a proxy of understanding a student’s overall experience. And GPA is even worse, because you’re putting all of your course grades into a meat grinder and spitting out one number.
-Luke Green
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Resources

• Luke Green, St. Cloud Technical & Community College
• Luke Green Recognized at MinnState Board Awards
• Grading for Growth, by David Clark and Robert Talbert
• Unmaking the Grade, by Emily Pitts Donahoe
• Learning About Grades from an Emerging Failure, with Emily Pitts Donahoe and Hannah Stachowiak
• Campbell’s Law
• Hood Politics with Prop
• There Really Is a Santa Claus, by Glenn P. Crone

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Remi Kalir shares the Fair Feedback Project for addressing bias in student evaluations on episode 628 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

If you actually have students write about affirming values as a kind of open free write before they complete an evaluation of teaching, it actually has been shown to mitigate bias.
-Remi Kalir

There are many people who are experiencing the effects of these structural patterns of bias who don’t look like me. So what can I do? How can I show up as an individual in this?
-Remi Kalir

I did not want people coming to the Fair Feedback project and then having long-winded, tangential, potentially problematic conversations with Claude as a chatbot.
-Remi Kalir

You can call it my complicity, you can call it my complexity, whatever you might call it, but I am very much entangled in this AI moment, trying to understand how I am navigating all of this.
-Remi Kalir

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Resources

• The Fair Feedback Project
• Remi Kalir at the Duke Center for Teaching and Learning
• Remi Kalir — remi(x)learning
• Claude’s Remi Record
• The Research on Course Evaluations, with Betsy Barre (Teaching in Higher Ed)
• The Potential Impact of Stereotype Threat, with Robin Paige (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 79)
• How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable, with David Gooblar (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 599)
• Claude M. Steele, Stanford Department of Psychology
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude M. Steele
• Ludmila Praslova, PhD — Vanguard University
• The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work, by Ludmila N. Praslova
• Teaching: Is There a Fix to the Teaching-Evaluation Problem? by Beth McMurtrie (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• A Practical Guide to Modern Teaching Evaluation, by Michael McCreary (Engaged Learning Collective)
• Transforming College Teaching Evaluation: A Framework for Advancing Instructional Excellence, by Ann E. Austin, Noah D. Finkelstein, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Doug Ward, and Gabriela Cornejo Weaver
• Rebecca Fordon — AI Law Librarians
• Aria Chernik, JD, PhD — Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education
• Claude Code
• Cowork by Claude
• Bartz v. Anthropic — Anthropic Copyright Settlement
• Anthropic Settles With Authors in First-of-Its-Kind AI Copyright Lawsuit (NPR)
• My Tech Disclaimer, by Doug Belshaw
• My 2026 Tech Stack, by Bonni Stachowiak (Teaching in Higher Ed)
• The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (podcast)
• Poll Everywhere

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Janice McCabe shares her research on campus loneliness and college friendship networks on episode 627 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

The previous surgeon general, among others, have declared a loneliness crisis facing the United States, and, in fact, the highest rates are among young adults.
-Janice McCabe

Many people that I interviewed told me how they felt like everyone else either had more friends than them, had better friends than them, was having more fun than them, along those lines.
-Janice McCabe

Something I hear from students a lot is just this appreciation for taking friendship seriously in students’ lives. And so that’s something that professors, teachers, college administrators can do.
-Janice McCabe

Students often say they don’t really like group projects, but then, that was a place that many of the friendships that formed in classes that I saw formed.
-Janice McCabe
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Resources

• Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks by Janice McCabe
• Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success by Janice McCabe
• Janice McCabe at Dartmouth
• What Friendship Network Type Are You? (PDF)
• I Study Friendship. Here’s How You Make Lasting Friends by Janice McCabe, The New York Times
• The Friendship Advice Experts Swear By by Catherine Pearson, The New York Times
• Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community
• Community of Inquiry framework
• Propinquity (Wikipedia)
• Homophily (Wikipedia)
• Peter Felten
• Network Weaving as an Antidote to Imposter Syndrome
• Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship podcast

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Jeanie Tietjen unpacks trauma-informed practices in higher ed and why naming itself is a form of teaching on episode 626 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

Naming goes so far back in, even just in literary terms, the importance of naming.
-Jeanie Tietjen

There is still a very nascent and as yet relatively unarticulated understanding of how profoundly trauma, adversity, and violence adversely affect teaching and learning.
-Jeanie Tietjen

Many students have experienced traumas that are situated in educational settings, bullying experiences that are identity-based, that profoundly shape how they feel about the educational setting as a place.
-Jeanie Tietjen

Learning is very vulnerable. It involves being wrong, failing, failing in front of other people.
-Jeanie Tietjen
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Resources

• Naming the Urgency: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices in Community Colleges, by Jeanie Tietjen (chapter)
• Trauma Informed Pedagogies: A Guide for Responding to Crisis and Inequality in Higher Education, edited by Phyllis Thompson and Janice Carello
• The Institute for Trauma, Adversity, and Resilience in Higher Education
• Supporting the Whole Student: Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in Higher Education (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
• What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
• SAMHSA’s 6 Guiding Principles to a Trauma-Informed Approach (infographic)
• Mays Imad
• Janice Carello
• Bryan Dewsbury
• Tracie Addy and PAITE (Personal Assessment of Inclusive Teaching for Effectiveness)
• Education Northwest — research on trauma and attendance (Shannon Davidson)
• Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading, by Malini Johar Schueller
• The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
• Episode 357: Sandie Morgan and Warren Doody on Elizabeth Leonard’s interdisciplinary legacy
• Bread and War: A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope, by Felicity Spector
• Flour Power (Felicity Spector’s Substack)
• The Gap (Ira Glass), video by Daniel Sax on Vimeo
• The Gap — PKM in Action, by Bonni Stachowiak
• Poll Everywhere

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