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By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Ask, and you shall receive! Awhile back I wrote a blog about my desire to become a student again. Oh, how I missed the back-to-school feeling, the excitement of the new syllabus and mapping out the course…

By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do the clothes really make the (wo)man? This is a debate that frequently comes up in my classrooms, and I've also dealt with it at home while raising two daughters. As academics, we like to believe that we are above…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Do you ever miss being a student? I don't mean a student of the world, or a life-long learner, as those of us in education tend to be. I don't mean the Chris Farley in Tommy Boy or Rodney Dangerfield in…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Do you ever miss being a student? I don't mean a student of the world, or a life-long learner, as those of us in education tend to be. I don't mean the Chris Farley in Tommy Boy or Rodney Dangerfield in…

By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do you make lists? I had a boyfriend long ago who accused me (with dripping superiority) of being a compulsive list-maker. The fact is, though, that while my life would definitely be greatly enhanced through the…

By Kat Kiefer-Newman We love our mothers. And because we love our mothers we've dedicated a day every year to saying so. By we I don't just mean here in the US: in Bangladesh, Slovakia, Curaçao, New Zealand, Belize, Iceland, Peru, Chile,…

By Kat Kiefer-Newman I know that I've complained before about Bb9 (it was frustrating, to say the least, when it first came online). I didn't even know then what I will euphemistically call the challenges I would be dealing with now.…

By Kat Kiefer-Newman I've been sick. Very, very sick. We all get sick, I know. This Fall semester, though, the weather seems especially chaotic, and my students have been particularly sniffley (that's when they even come to class). The…

Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the dark and brooding subject of death. When I first talked with the department chair about this class, and…

Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the dark and brooding subject of death. When I first talked with the department chair about this class, and…