Meet Mr. Messy, from a book of the same title: Mr. Messy is a friend of my kid Mac, who for some reason is intrigued by Mr. Messy. We haven’t even read the book (so in fact I don’t know what it’s about), but we have seen his picture and sometimes it looks to Mac [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Change’
Mr. Messy Meets Higher Education
Posted in Change, Dean Stuff, Higher Education, Learning, Reflection, Toddlers, tagged Change, deanstuff, highereducation, Learning, reflection, Toddlers on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Now Here’s An Idea: Hospitality In Higher Education
Posted in Books, Change, Community, Higher Education, Learning, Liberal Arts, Teaching, tagged Books, Change, Community, highereducation, Learning, liberalarts, Teaching on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m devouring The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal, by Parker Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, and Megan Scribner right now. It’s a good read. It’s a thought-provoking read. It’s an inspiring read. It gives me hope. One premise put forth by Palmer is the idea that a key virtue in higher education that is [...]
Because I Care
Posted in Assessment, Assessment Leadership Academy, Change, Higher Education, Learning, tagged Assessment, Change, highereducation, Learning on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Read why, here: Assessment as an Act of Care This guy (from the Comments) does too! Care is a great reason for assessment Posted by Alexander Freund , Prof./Hist. at UWinnipeg on August 27, 2011 at 12:15pm EDT I like Ms Booth’s idea of care as a reason for assessment. The question is not only [...]
Yah, What They Said!
Posted in Assessment Leadership Academy, Change, Dean Stuff, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Work, tagged Change, deanstuff, highereducation, problemsolving, Work on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few of my favorite selections from chapters in Field Guide to Academic Leadership (edited by Robert Diamond), one of our books for the Assessment Leadership Academy: “The most appropriate solutions to the problems lie in shared commitment to and responsibility for good practice.” ~Michael Theall, Evaluation and Assessment – An Institutional Context “The opportunity [...]
Singing My Heart Out
Posted in Assessment, Assessment Leadership Academy, Change, Higher Education, tagged Assessment, Change, highereducation, Learning, Teaching on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You know that phrase, “Preaching to the choir?” As I read more and more of the literature about assessment in higher ed (theory, empirical research, best practices, models) assigned in the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy, that phrase keeps coming out of my mouth: preaching to the choir. I am in the choir! See – here [...]
Preparing For The Inevitable Shock of Change
Posted in Change, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, tagged Change, highereducation, liberalarts on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Let me recommend that you PrattleNoggers out there (yeah you — you know who you are) take the time to read this open letter to George Philip, President of the State University of New York at Albany, written by Gregory Petsko from Brandeis University, on the importance of the Liberal Arts and humanities (different entities, [...]
Bumps!
Posted in Change, Experience, Friends, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Reflection, Toddlers, Work, tagged Change, experience, friends, highereducation, problemsolving, reflection, Toddlers, Work on July 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today, PrattleNog features a guest post from Lorrie Ranck. Lorrie and I have been colleagues and friends since 1996, when we both started teaching at a college in the Bay Area that provided each of us several “bumps” in our professional road. Those bumps were likely responsible, in part, for the formation of our close [...]
Becoming Adult
Posted in Adult Learners, Blogs, Change, Learning, Life, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, age, blog, Change, Learning, Life, reflection on May 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today on Freshly Pressed I happened across this lovely little blog post from Burk Krohe: Signs I’m Starting To Become An Adult. Middle-class kid, college graduate, living at home, trying to find a job. He sees neckties and weddings and the inability to stay up all night drinking with his friends as his signs. Great [...]
Another Use For Photoshop
Posted in Change, Learning, Reflection, tagged Change, Learning, reflection on May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When I was in college, my friend Christine told me the story of some advice her grandmother gave her when she was complaining about a boyfriend. The boyfriend wasn’t doing what she’d wanted him to do, or treating her like she wanted to be treated (I don’t recall the details). In essence, he was not [...]
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