https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-07-08 https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/4cs-recap-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/2cbc4552-fd5e-40d7-aca4-6659ccaf4219/Screenshot+2026-03-27+at+1.49.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - BYTE x CCCC 2026: Reimagining the Teaching Philosophy Statement - Make it stand out Demonstrating my own remediated teaching philosophy statement video for my website https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/teaching-poetry-now monthly 0.5 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/083217c0-bb69-4251-8758-fc6d21167e75/tpn2.jpg Blog - On Teaching Poems in Novels - “‘I hear it now’; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels” In this chapter in Teaching Poetry Now, released this month by SUNY Press, my co-author Annelise Chick and I offer strategies for teaching students how to engage more actively with versiprose (a prose text, like a novel, that contains various poetic explanations or interruptions). For nineteenth-century literature enthusiasts, our case study centers Bianca, or, the Spanish Maiden, the posthumous novel of Bengali poet and novelist Toru Dutt that was serialized in the Bengal Magazine in 1878. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/byte-interview-uoh monthly 0.5 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/5cd94308-44a8-4860-b450-cb0959084fcd/Podcast+Ep.jpeg Blog - Talking BYTE on the Unofficial Office Hours Podcast - Want to learn more about Branding Your Teaching Excellence, my faculty development framework? Miranda Rodak & I recently joined the Unofficial Office Hours podcast for a conversation about BYTE and the larger question of how teaching-focused faculty can make their work visible in ways that feel authentic, strategic, and sustainable. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/responding-to-student-evaluations-mid-year monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/94bb49b6-27f7-4f57-a578-f0ffede68c26/Untitled+design.png Blog - Responding to Student Evaluations Mid-Academic Year - Unfortunately, the few weeks between the end of the fall semester and the start of spring don’t leave much time for making major changes to a course design, especially if you are in the middle of piloting a new course. Still, I think it’s important to take some time to reflect on what students are saying, for better and for worse. In this post, I’m sharing some quick, short-term strategies for responding to mid-year feedback. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/ncte2025 monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/545d221d-73ae-4760-a968-8d3f77645183/Screenshot+2025-11-24+at+3.41.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - What I Presented, Learned, and Added to My TBR at NCTE 2025 - I was booked and busy at this conference, leading a half-day workshop on Thursday, giving a talk on a panel on Friday, and presenting a remediation activity through the Classroom Idea Exchange on Sunday (as you can probably assume, I need a nice long nap!). My workshop “From Goals to Graphics: Using Creative Tools to Visualize Curricular Trajectories for Students” empowered faculty to produce creative, student-facing visuals of their courses’ curricular trajectories to foster productive conversations about learning outcomes, transfer, and growth mindset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/be7e84ed-6490-4065-b23c-8a6efc7c9fed/Screenshot+2025-11-24+at+3.41.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - What I Presented, Learned, and Added to My TBR at NCTE 2025 - My favorite individual presentation of the convention was “Entangled Dreams: Collaborative Book Reviews as Transformative Teacher Education” by Dr. Teaira McMurtry (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and her honors education student, Marianee Pichardo-Luna. This presentation alone was worth the price of admission. The duo shared their approach to co-authoring a book review, which is structured as a simulated dialogue before the traditional scholarly book review begins. I got so many amazing ideas for adapting this for the Advanced Expository Writing course that I am teaching in the spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1764036281545-1ICLUFNKLYE0X6CC5LWI/kidd.jpeg Blog - What I Presented, Learned, and Added to My TBR at NCTE 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1764036281543-RGJUIMSF6QG6IYX482GO/digital+reading.jpeg Blog - What I Presented, Learned, and Added to My TBR at NCTE 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1764036282756-BPW28KOPXJRLBBV8RFW4/mann.jpeg Blog - What I Presented, Learned, and Added to My TBR at NCTE 2025 https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/what-do-readers-want-teaching-students-to-think-like-editors monthly 0.5 2025-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763161387740-GA6KZ639GP2R7GE3S9B2/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+6.02.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - What do Readers Want? Teaching Students to Think Like Editors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763161387586-XWANQQVGAZLOQHK391MP/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+6.02.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - What do Readers Want? Teaching Students to Think Like Editors https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/so-we-teach-on-strategies-for-managing-heavy-teaching-loads monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/3dd202f1-4c4b-4aae-bd39-edfbeeb7036f/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+3.48.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads - Make it stand out An excerpt from one of my global feedback sheets from my Intro to Fiction course https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763153776271-W9QTZRPUPTVQH0XV6FKK/unsplash-image-SwHvzwEzCfA.jpg Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads - Every Monday afternoon, I block several hours to plan next week’s instruction. You heard that right — next week’s instruction. This ensures that I stay a week ahead in case something comes up (like getting sick or needing to travel for a conference), and helps keep me from getting behind. During that time block, I update the relevant LMS pages, create any assignments, and add or refresh any content on my slide decks. I do this for each course in the order that I teach them. This predictable rhythm keeps me focused and ensures each class gets the attention it deserves. I’ve tried every type of analog and digital planner, including tools like Motion that are essentially AI assistants that help organize your calendar and tasks based on priority and estimated time to completion. Planners come and go, but calendar blocking is the one strategy that keeps my teaching commitments on track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763152021668-R9FWP1O2FQMGSG0Y0B5D/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+3.25.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763152021668-D5NMZKOOIXXE2TUBZ19O/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+3.26.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763152022697-MJ3PDBHWECLCXV4AJF03/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+3.26.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763152194534-RH70G3HWQLHAP75TD43V/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+3.29.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763152194708-9VKX3BC0BIICY9OFR6I1/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+3.29.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1763152195594-CMPDLULZN1L3GNQFWKA0/Screenshot+2025-11-14+at+3.29.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - So We Teach On: Strategies for Managing Heavy Teaching Loads https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/course-descriptions-oer monthly 0.5 2025-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/d2b5b508-c30f-47aa-b58f-e47e505d771e/Screenshot+2025-10-21+at+10.07.35%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - Do You Need to Write Better Course Descriptions? - Rhetorically savvy course descriptions, because they speak to multiple audiences, stand as a demonstration of your teaching excellence. Some example course descriptions from recent courses I have designed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/8f6120af-01a5-4f00-b492-1d0aa82891e6/Screenshot+2025-10-21+at+10.10.14%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - Do You Need to Write Better Course Descriptions? Whether your context is the job market or promotion, the course description establishes the first impression of yourself as a course designer– a creator of learning experiences. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/whyiwrite monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/oer monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/digital-creativity monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/sonnet-puzzles monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/dc1af2ff-00f7-4625-af06-e15607bac394/Screenshot+2025-10-09+at+9.12.45%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - Sonnet Puzzles: Active Learning in the Literature Classroom - One of my go-to activities in my Introduction to Poetry course is sonnet puzzles. Some context: We spend the first day of this unit talking about the difference between English and Italian sonnets with poems we have read together previously (we start the semester with poems like Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to explore voice, tone, and theme). Once they have this baseline, their understanding of sonnets is put to the test during our next class period. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/exit-ticket-questions monthly 0.5 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1758813943074-18U6TU9WH1MX4XSTZDJO/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+11.25.00%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - Exit Ticket Questions for the Data-Driven Educator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1758813942704-7OJ5P8VZFMGEZ356MI22/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+11.25.26%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - Exit Ticket Questions for the Data-Driven Educator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1758814045989-PFVUUS6V1V20GG8TC90N/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+11.27.15%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - Exit Ticket Questions for the Data-Driven Educator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/2fdb7862-9b06-4ebf-baaa-3bd5fc5a9a4d/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+11.47.33%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - Exit Ticket Questions for the Data-Driven Educator - Make it stand out After I have introduced a new concept, method, or framework, such as rhetorical analysis in my digital composition course, I often show my students the exit ticket data at the start of the next session. I then turn the process of recall back on the students: tell me, for example, how we define “rhetorical situation.” Exit ticket data and recall-based warm-ups can go hand in hand. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/poetry-resourceroundup monthly 0.5 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/2f9f1e86-932c-4fdc-915a-16c8c8398810/Screenshot+2025-08-27+at+7.10.33%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - 5 Essential Resources for Teaching Poetry in Introductory College Courses - Looking for quick lesson planning inspiration? Start here! As someone who teaches introductory courses in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, this book has become my holy grail of active learning strategies. Two of my favorite activities are Wendy Lee’s “The Blow-Up” and Benjamin Widiss’s “Reverse Entropy.” What I appreciate about this resource is how it lists at the top, for each activity, the best-suited genre for the activity, course level, student difficulty, teacher preparation, class size, semester time, writing component, close reading, and estimated time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/0961ea4f-e028-4142-bb2a-c3ca439b972e/Screenshot+2025-08-27+at+7.28.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - 5 Essential Resources for Teaching Poetry in Introductory College Courses - Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement by Thomas Fink is a book I discovered relatively recently, but I think it’s a staple. What I appreciate about Fink’s work — and you can get a taste of it over at the Bloomsbury blog — is the way he articulates the specific issues students encounter when engaging with poetry. If you find yourself getting impatient with students for whom the poems are not clicking, he provides some necessary perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/c69db458-6231-4fb6-84eb-491a1199f6c6/Screenshot+2025-08-27+at+7.35.22%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - 5 Essential Resources for Teaching Poetry in Introductory College Courses - Anyone who seriously studies or teaches poetry should have The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics on their shelf. This book is absolutely massive (and makes for a great computer monitor riser), but it provides a wealth of information you simply won’t find in the slimmer literary terms handbooks. This resource is a great starting point for drafting lecture material, especially if you want to speak to the history of a form or genre. Like many academic books, this one is an investment. My philosophy? Buy once, cry once! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/d926ae7d-60b3-4ebd-9aad-4f24d9ae4291/Screenshot+2025-08-27+at+7.38.11%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - 5 Essential Resources for Teaching Poetry in Introductory College Courses - I’m thrilled that Teaching Poetry Now, edited by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud will be released in February 2026! My co-authored chapter talks all about how to teach poetry when it appears in novels so students fight the urge to skip over it. I’ll share more about this book closer to its publication. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/classtocareer-1 monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1755976118103-NPBFJU1CJ0T8TBOLJZHO/unsplash-image-5aiRb5f464A.jpg Blog - From Semester Prep to Career Prep: Questions to Prompt Faculty Reflection - It’s no secret that faculty preparing for promotion, the job market, or other career advancement opportunities greatly benefit from making time for regular reflection & goal setting. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/3-canvas-tips monthly 0.5 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/af4109b2-0ba4-456d-a6d5-7e6317ad0e6d/Screenshot+2025-08-19+at+2.12.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Canvas Tips - Remember when your school would give you a spiral-bound agenda when the year started? Those were the days! Think of your Canvas as a digital version of a daily and weekly student planner. Make it easy for your students to keep track of what is happening and when by creating daily pages that are organized by week and linked on your homepage. Students often rely on Canvas’s to-do feature to pull together a list of tasks due for all of their courses, but this list isn’t always accurate, as it requires every item to be set up as an assignment. If students only check the to-do list, they miss out on readings, resources, and other course materials. I prefer to have everything students need for each day of instruction easily accessible on a single page, so nothing gets left out. That way, they quickly develop the habit of intentionally engaging with the LMS as part of the learning environment, rather than just a running checklist. When students click on Week 1, for example, they are taken to the daily page for the first day of class, which includes all the necessary materials, links, and assignments for both in-class and out-of-class work. Each of my daily pages are contained chronologically within a single module, so there is a next button at the bottom of each daily page. The result? Students always know where to go, and you reduce the number of emails asking where to find specific course materials. Win-win! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/07d2e575-46b5-4e76-b7bc-fabb1b7026b5/Screenshot+2025-08-19+at+3.06.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Canvas Tips - Take a look at how I organize my daily pages in this screenshot from my Introduction to Poetry course. At the top of each daily page, there are three tabs that outline the overview for that day’s instruction, the essential questions we seek to answer during the current unit, and the relevant student learning outcomes. Student learning outcomes don’t need to live solely in the syllabus and major assignment sheets. Make them visible to students daily so they can better understand how time spent in and out of class is preparing them to meet these outcomes. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/nfo2025 monthly 0.5 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/18e33446-550d-486a-b717-ea01dc479763/Screenshot+2025-08-14+at+10.11.30%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Active Learning Strategies - Today, I had the pleasure of guest speaking at IUB’s New Faculty Orientation on active learning in small- to medium-sized courses. Active learning isn’t a fad or a buzzword: it’s the research-backed fuel that powers my classroom. Active learning is all about creating opportunities for students to engage with course material in hands-on, collaborative, transferable, and reflective ways. I love the way the session’s facilitator Leslie Drane describes active learning: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1e1610b4-fdbf-4539-9083-cb68c473dd6f/active+learning+blog+post+image.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Active Learning Strategies - Make it stand out Scenes from a discussion of The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections by Ben Wildavsky. I simply numbered the canvases for each of the eight career arts, and let my students take the lead on summarizing and unpacking each one. https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/gppd-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/948e6eb2-7605-4301-90bd-1e955d3d213e/Untitled+design+%288%29.png Blog - Bringing BYTE to Future Faculty - Make it stand out scenes from Wednesday’s workshop on leveraging career documents as strategic planning tools https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/btscanvatips monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1754320774544-CKHY3W6SCLQKV39M1OE7/W171+Course+Poster.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Canva Tips for Educators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1754326581156-RYGC8FL77WKQGNGLK6YZ/21C+Am+Lit+Poster.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Canva Tips for Educators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1754322187622-08EJ4W02YZVTHPUCSB0M/Screenshot+2025-08-04+at+11.42.40%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Canva Tips for Educators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/1754322186696-69V4Q1HJCVLPIK08HF9D/Screenshot+2025-08-04+at+11.42.49%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog - 3 Back-to-School Canva Tips for Educators https://www.gabriellestecher.com/blog/teaching-composition-with-marilyn-monroe monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6660f265d978103e5fdd9556/10078855-4bd6-4bf1-b352-def59a1c6b41/JFK_and_Marilyn_Monroe_1962.jpg Blog - Teaching Composition with Marilyn Monroe - Make it stand out Marilyn, JFK, & the dress. Photograph by White House Photographer Cecil W. 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