On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
What I Presented, 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.
3 Back-to-School Canvas Tips
I consistently receive comments in my student evaluations about how much they appreciate the intentional and transparent design of my Canvas pages and how organized it keeps us. I’m sharing three tips (and some custom code!) to level up your Canvas sites and improve your own students’ experience.
- creative technologies
- Canva
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- creativity
- career management
- philosophy statement
- BYTE
- lesson planning
- Adobe Express
- walking the walk
- OER
- course design
- poetry
- discussion
- active learning
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- career documents
- digital portfolios
- Interview
- lms
- week in the life
- multimodality
- NTT
- workshops
- woman artist
- Women & Film
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- data
- assessment
- creative confidence
- reflection
- data-driven instruction
- Publication
- honors curriculum
- learning outcomes
- NCTE
- podcast
- scholarly teaching
- collaboration
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- student feedback
- National Day on Writing
- feedback
- course observations
- Kate Chopin
- literature pedagogy
- Notion
- social annotation
- canvas
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- exit ticket
- conference
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- work in progress
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- design
- canva
- authentic assessment
- CCCC
- grading
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- nineteenth-century literature
- course descriptions
- service
- course evaluations