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The Day I Met Gen Z

I have a 24-hour rule. I do not reply, respond or react to something that upsets me until after the...

Welcome to College

Dear Class of 2025, On move-in day, you may have noticed the blue and white banners affixed to the dormitories....

You and Your Classroom’s Culture

We had a to make a choice. A core, fundamental, how-do-we-want-to-walk-through-this-world kind of choice: Are we “institution-centered” or “client-centered”? That...

Exiled

I was demoralized. I had had difficult final sit-downs with students before. But nothing, I mean nothing, like this. There...

Racial Equity Sidekick Pledge

The Sidekick Manifesto that I co-authored with some of my former Mary Washington students (Dr. Laura Meizen-Dick, Jeff Paddock and...

The Roads That Make Us

I’m driving a flat, well-maintained straight line of solitude through miles of Indiana cornfields. State Route 101 invites me to...

High School Reunion

There are gold and brown streamers hanging from the awning. There’s a sign on the restaurant door that reads “THS...

The Deer

I stand atop the dune in the darkness of the too-early dawn. A fear as deep as time tells me...

B But Leave

I stormed into the classroom fifteen minutes late and fired up. I scanned their faces. We were halfway through the...

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