As a composition instructor, one of the complaints I hear most often among colleagues (and I’ve definitely said this myself) goes something like this: “Students don’t read my comments on their papers.” It feels […]

For today’s English Composition 1 class, we read June Jordan’s “Poem About My Rights,” and two essays by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider, “Poetry is Not a Luxury” and “The Master’s Tools.” We began by reading […]

In this first assignment of the year, inspired by Professor of English and History at Schoolcraft College, Steven L. Berg, students in my EC1 ALP course at NJCU will write a professional email introducing th […]

On Monday, July 13, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis presented at the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University. Our talk, “Trust Your Students,” was about co-learning and using active lear […]

This post was originally published here on May 23, 2020.
By the end of summer, we all will have reinvented our syllabi to account for varying degrees of hybrid teaching. We will have reimagined the structure of […]

Today on Progressive Pedagogy, we are featuring an activity designed by Assistant Professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez at the University of Texas at Dallas, TX. The activity is called “This is a Nation,” and it dra […]

Today I attended “Climate Change in the News” with meteorologists Pedro Montoro of Telemundo 47 and Erica Grow, American Meteorologist Society Councilor and former evening meteorologist of WNBC in NYC. Futures […]

Today, in our Progressive Pedagogy Group, we recognize the superb classroom and institutional innovations of Professor Cristy Bruns, Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. Professor […]

In the latest issue of MLA’s Profession, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis argue that students lose too much when they don’t take humanities courses and that now is the time for those of us teaching in t […]

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This blog was originally posted by Christina Katopodis on November 1, 2019. Read the original post here.
Time seems to melt away as soon as class begins. There is so much material to cover and never enough time. I […]

At the end of the Spring 2019 term, Cathy N. Davidson posted about how much we admire Dean Anne Balsamo’s syllabus for her TechnoCulture course, and now we’ve come across another inspiring syllabus by John Jay […]

Overview: “Introduce Yourselves,” an Exercise for the First Day of Class
Everything we do in a small seminar class depends on collaboration, even if it is only raising one’s hand and contributing to the disc […]

This quarter, Professor Patrick Anderson is teaching almost 500 students in his department’s introductory course at the University of California, San Diego. Almost all of these students are first years or t […]

Syllabus accessibility isn’t emphasized enough in academe. Too often, accessibility is limited to a single statement toward the end of the syllabus rather than something that is integrated into a course from the b […]