By some miracle, Week #11 is in the books! #Teaching is #ThinkingInCommunity
#TerrierSpiritDays #TerrierSpiritDay #ProudToBU
BU AAUP pins read:
“No austerity without transparency!“
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“Support academic freedom and CGS rights to hire its faculty!”
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“CAS faculty say protest graduate programs!”
Week number 11 is underway! And ANOTHER COUNTRY ain’t been playing with us!
#Teaching Is #ThinkingInCommunity
My Spring Break was anything but a break, but most of my students brought it on this first day back! #Teaching is #ThinkingInCommunity
H/T @yes.quare on IG for the earrings
The snow didn’t leave my syllabus untouched this week, but I‘m grateful the necessary adjustments aren’t extreme.
Week #6 is in the books. #Teaching is #ThinkingInCommunity 
Week #4 is in the books! A former student came to office hours. He studied abroad last semester and promised to come tell me all about it. We had so much fun catching up!
Today’s class discussion was equally fun. Quality comments all around!
#Teaching is #ThinkingInCommunity
Week #4 is underway. Baldwin is bringing it! Are we proving worthy of what he’s bringing? Time will tell it best. #Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
Meanwhile, I’m being reminded of my capacity to produce truly ugly sentences! Ugh! 😩 #Writing #WritingLife
The hairdresser set me up to create a more deliberate style, but I didn’t have time because I was still grading those papers, but it’s so soft and shiny!
Week # 3 is in the books! #Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
I earned my PhD 20 years ago. A note this week from someone I taught in 2001 when I was a grad student brought that home. I printed it out & put it in my encouragement file. I work my ass off, but I continue to marvel at the life I get to live.
Week 4 in the books. #Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
… it’ll be hanging where I’ll see it every time I walk into my office … and so will every visitor. #CountingBlessings
Yep, #Teaching is all about #ThinkingInCommunity
2nd to last class day. I’ve almost made it through Spring 2025.
Given how this semester began, I'm reminded of that gospel song GRACE:
"My road ain't always been smooth
But I don't look like everything I've been through"
#Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
When I tell you that these students grappled with the rich complexity of Sui Sin Far’s “Mrs. Spring Fragrance” (1912), believe that!
#Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
Lots of questionable decisions today, but as Tim Gunn would say, “Make it work.” 😆
#Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
Chiiillld, I don’t seem to be able to stay off the struggle bus. 😆
Let me tell you what I know for sure about #Teaching: If students don’t want to put something in, you can’t make them benefit.
That’s *part* of why I call it #ThinkingInCommunity
As usual, Spring Break wasn’t exactly a break, but I’m grateful for it. Back to it! #Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
On the struggle bus, but still showing up.
#Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
One more class to go, and then I get to catch up over dinner with one of my favorite people!
TFW students come ready to support each comment with textual evidence—directing us to the page and paragraph!!!
Cookin’ with grease, baby! #Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity #NerdSoHard
What a treat to visit my BU colleague Chad Williams & his students! It felt intellectually rigorous but also indulgent because of how he contextualized my work, from book to book. #NerdSoHard
After all of this, I get to engage my own classes and hold office hours. #Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
Today, we finished #ThinkingInCommunity with Uché Blackstock’s LEGACY. What a powerful final selection for our BLACK WOMEN & LIFE WRITING journey. #Teaching #Learning
Coming up: Day 1 on Uché Blackstock’s LEGACY! Can’t wait to see how this conversation goes! #Teaching #ThinkingInCommunity
After class, a catchup over dinner that was planned long ago. Gotta love when you set yourself up well!
