On leading a faculty development workshop at the 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication, where we introduced participants to the Branding Your Teaching Excellence (BYTE) framework through a session on remediating the teaching philosophy statement for public consumption.

Marilyn Monroe died on this day sixty-three years ago, on August 4, 1962. Ever since, she has remained an enigmatic, spectral presence in the public imagination. These days, she haunts my composition classroom.

This spring, I was a finalist for the FACET Innovate Award in the Creative Uses of Online Tools category for one of the first installments in my Empower Your Learning module series.