On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
What I Taught, Learned, and Added to My TBR at NCTE 2025
NCTE 2025 came to a close after four full days of teaching conversations, creativity, and community. In this 3×3 recap, I’m sharing what I presented, what I learned, and what I’ve added to my to-be-read list for the trip home.
Do You Need to Write Better Course Descriptions?
Celebrate Open Access Week with a free toolkit for writing stronger, more engaging course descriptions that attract students to your course and discipline.
Getting Started with Open Educational Resources
OERs provide an extraordinary opportunity to circulate innovative teaching practices, amplify faculty voices, and expand educational equity. But doing so well requires intention. After all, open isn’t just about access. It’s about authorship, agency, and the story we tell about how we teach.
Why I Teach Book Cover Design (& How You Can Too with My Free Resource)
This week, I am wrapping up teaching an eight-week, online version of my “Putting the Lit in Literacies” Intro to Fiction course here at IU Bloomington. To celebrate the occasion, I want to share an updated look at one of my favorite summative assessments.
Lesson Plan Databases & Paragraph Maps
This week, I’m sharing how I use Notion to organize my lesson plans, as well as a brief glimpse at paragraph mapping, one of my latest open educational resources.
- creative technologies
- Canva
- creativity
- career management
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- lesson planning
- walking the walk
- OER
- philosophy statement
- discussion
- active learning
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- Adobe Express
- career documents
- course design
- poetry
- lms
- BYTE
- week in the life
- NTT
- woman artist
- Women & Film
- digital portfolios
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- Interview
- assessment
- creative confidence
- reflection
- multimodality
- honors curriculum
- learning outcomes
- NCTE
- workshops
- collaboration
- data
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- National Day on Writing
- feedback
- Kate Chopin
- Notion
- social annotation
- canvas
- data-driven instruction
- Publication
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- exit ticket
- conference
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- work in progress
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- podcast
- design
- canva
- authentic assessment
- scholarly teaching
- grading
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- course descriptions
- service