Pedagogical Check-Ins
I had a podcast episode ready for today, but I decided to write this blog post instead because it simply did not feel right to release a podcast episode with all socio-political unrest. And that is part of what this post is about. It is about how educational spaces need to get a whole lot better at being responsive to what is happening in the world and stop pretending academic institutions live and operate in a vacuum. Yesterday George Brown sent an email to everyone acknowledging what was happening in Iran and providing links to support for student and staff if they needed it. And when I read that email yesterday that came hours after it became clear what was going on, the first thing that came to my mind is so so many other institutions would absolutely never do that, and that is actually a deep tragedy that says a lot about values and care and leadership. Because this isn't just about what may or may not be happening in the world, it is also about what is happening in mic...