What If Potential Follows Encouragement?
What if encouragement doesn’t simply follow evidence of potential? What if, sometimes, evidence of potential follows encouragement? Drawing connections between research on teacher expectations and leader-member relationships, I’m thinking through how the patience, trust, challenge, attention, and opportunities we give people may help shape the potential we later believe we simply recognized.
You Can Have My Labor, But Not My Soul: Moral Resilience in Higher Ed
A reflection on moral resilience, rebuilding, and the line between offering your labor and giving yourself away. For anyone trying to do meaningful, values-aligned work without burning themselves down to do it.
Beyond Adoption: Teaching the Open Education Landscape
At the UT System Momentum on OER Convening, I kept thinking about what higher education too often skips: the moment before adoption. The part where educators need structure, not cheerleading; method, not mandate. In this post, I reflect on that experience and share openly available resources, including a mini-lesson series and the OER Tracker, designed to make OER exploration more rigorous, transparent, and usable across roles.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Authenticity
Imagine it like this: no courtroom, no highlight reel. Just a quiet place at the end of the road, and little you waiting. They don’t ask about your titles or your output. They ask one thing, plain and devastating: Who did you become when you had the choice?
