Teaching Practices
Spend the entire session outdoors helping students develop genuine connection to the environment. This practice grounds students in place to understand why sustainability matters through felt experience rather than abstract concepts.
Teaching Practices
Using magazine images and collaborative collaging to explore complex concepts through visual thinking. Reveals insights that analytical writing might miss, allowing students to hold complexity without immediate resolution. Works for any subject.
Teaching Practices
Deliberately shift classroom power by giving students real authority over learning. Four methods for redistributing traditional teaching authority while maintaining goals. Students experience having their knowledge valued as legitimate.
Teaching Practices
Simple creative practice for any classroom: students choose an image, create a story, share insights. Surfaces existing knowledge through collaborative storytelling. No wrong answers, any subject.
Writing
I've stopped waiting for permission to teach differently. Working in the cracks means finding small spaces within institutional constraints where different relationships to learning become possible.
Teaching Practices
Replace your usual session opening with a "what if" question tied to your topic. This is a fundamental reframing of the learning relationship. You're positioning students as capable of imagining alternatives rather than passive recipients of existing knowledge.
Writing
Business schools have a whole vocabulary for how students should feel. They survey satisfaction every year, and wellbeing gets its own week, usually with a talk about resilience. Joy isn't in that vocabulary. It can't be promised in a module descriptor or ranked in a league
