What's Next?
Probably a bit of a shorter post this week because I am in the middle of family responsibilities. However, I have been reflecting a lot this week about the conversations I have had over the last 2 weeks or so with folk who have either been laid off from their HigherEd role or decided to leave their positions because of the unsustainability or toxicity of the spaces they found themselves in, or are extremely close to leaving for exactly the same reason. One of the podcasts that I often try to have time in my week to engage with is Tea for Teaching and the hosts end their episodes by asking the guests "what's next?" Often the answer to this question is yet another book they are working on, or maybe (but very rarely) the kind of care modelling that Tolu gave in the last episode which is taking a break from all the productivity the systems demand. The thing is that often in HigherEd when you ask folk what is next or ask them to project some sort of next steps type thing, of...