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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

COME WORK WITH ME AND MY AMAZING COLLEAGUES!!! We are excited to announce that WE ARE HIRING! We are seeking an experienced Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) administrator to continue the growth of SoTL at Kennesaw State University (KSU) and beyond. See comments for more info.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m beyond honored to be part of this starter pack! Follow everyone!

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The NCTE decision on the CCCC is all kinds of fuc&ed up, but something I’ve been thinking about is how, over the last decade or so,* it seems that real progress has been made in bridging gaps between k-12 and college teaching, in many disciplines, and esp. so in writing and ELA—

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Request: is anyone here a paid subscriber to Tressie McMillan Cottom's Substack "Essaying"? I need to cite an essay from there and can't access it because it's not taking new paid subscribers and is paywalled.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I have deeply enjoyed writing my "Bad Ideas About Teaching" column for the National Teaching and Learning Forum, but this is my last one. I am now focusing on a book project and some other opportunities with my limited writing time.

Image of text which says: What I've most enjoyed about writing the column has been engaging with you, the readers, about these ideas, well as being part of a community of people across the country who want to improve teaching in higher ed and who work incredibly hard every day to move that needle.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Oh, me? Just on a plane with my boss developing a new workshop on grading with efficiency and joy. #POD50

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In my latest "Bad Ideas About Teaching" column, "Don't Talk About Failure," I write about how we can help *very resistant* students understand how important failure is to learning and to staying motivated for learning. Link in comments, and PDF available upon request.

Image of text which says: I try to establish that failure is a necessary part of the writing process — I do so through repetition, readings which support that thesis, and sometimes my own writing failures. I know professors from all kinds of classes who do this as well — they talk about failed lab experiments, equations that never worked, the language phrases which result in unexpected food orders, and theories which never apply. The main idea is to get students to see failure not as a cost, but as a benefit.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

In my latest "Bad Ideas About Teaching" column, "Don't Use The Names Students Want," I write about my struggle to learn names and to speak from the integrity of my "teacher within" to use students' chosen names and speak to the student within. Link in comments, and PDF available upon request.

Image of text which says: This way of learning students' names might seem a small gesture what with everything going on for us, our students, our institutions, and the world. But one of the most important things we can do at the beginning of a semester is set a tone for the communities that we would like our classes to become.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

One of the most resonant activities in my writing classes centers, transparently & forcefully, definitions of parts of the writing process. It’s powerful because many FYS don’t know the difference between editing and revising, for ex, or why free writing is beneficial. I’m grateful for this thread.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/07/2025

Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps. "AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse. Jfc.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I’m really grateful for this thread from @lindsaymasland.bsky.social (belated though my finding of it is).

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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We have had a century of “big data,” seventy years of “AI,” decades and decades of Bill Gates' bullshit and “computers in the classroom.” It's batshit to believe that this time this time, the ed-tech is going to be good 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/degenerate-a...

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Degenerate: Against Education at Scale

Ed-Tech Criticism. AI Refusal.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In the words of Jerry Garcia, SoTL peeps: "what you standin' there for? Get up, get out, get out of the door!" Register NOW for the SoTL Summit, an all-virtual international conference showcasing peer-reviewed and invited scholarly work on teaching and learning in higher education.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

That's a big ol' NOPE for me . . .

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My latest "Bad Ideas About Teaching" column, "Complain About the Transactional Nature of College," advocates leaning into the transactional nature of college: be transparent/ forceful w students abt the nature of that transaction: transformation & learning. Link in comments; PDF avail w request.

Image of text which says: "lean into the transaction language. SO let's lean into explicit conversations about how they must transform their lives to succeed.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Here is a beautiful and wonderful thing: reading a meditation on flying in an airplane-themed coffee shop. Gorgeous, thoughtful prose by Mark Vanhoenacker.

Image of a paragraph of text which says: “Georgia O’Keefe was afraid of flying but obsessed with the clouds she saw from airplanes, which she painted with an all but religious devotion: ‘When you fly under even normal circumstances, you see such marvelous things, with incredible colors that you actually begin to believe your dreams.’ I try to remember, when I haven’t flown for some time, and the handles of the bags of groceries I’m carrying through a cold and rainy November dusk are about to break, that such a lake of light may be above the clouds that rest on the street.”

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Image of a book cover: Skyfaring: A journey with a pilot

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Upside down flag=distress. My in-laws have deep connections with the Minnesota Legislature and I am grieving with my MN family and friends today.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Hey pedagogues, can someone share an example of a socially annotated syllabus from a class you’ve taught (student info redacted, of course)? #Teaching/Learning

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Hey @bigjet.tv if you ever get to Albuquerque, check out this lovely exhibit of models! It goes on and on!

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Y’ALL, how lucky am I that I got to talk with @sarosecav.bsky.social for my latest column in the National Teaching and Learning Forum!? If you need a little joy, a little warmth, a lot of thoughtfulness, read this. Link in comments, and PDF available upon request. GET IT!

But I think ultimately,people must teach as themselves, as who they are. I think certain practices might work fantastically for me and fail utterly for you.

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Viji @vijisathy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

“To be clear, the opposite of welcoming diversity is supporting segregation. The opposite of moving toward equity is hoarding resources. The opposite of being more inclusive is exclusion.”

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

MLA vs APA question for you stylebook nerds (meant as a compliment!): I've noticed that MLA seems to prefer that writers introduce a source before quoting or paraphrasing, providing context and validating the source, whereas APA style doesn't seem to introduce the source at all. Why?

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm happy to share my new "Bad Ideas About Teaching" column, where I discuss the importance of metacognitive frameworks to learning, the training of graduate students, and tell a story about a particularly underwhelming seminar (IYKYK). Link in comments; PDF available upon request.

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may not be learning very effectively, explaining, in some
part, the piss-poor graduate program retention numbers. Many
who leave graduate school likely are frustrated by how they are
not learning."

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 06/02/2025

This is a starter pack of accounts that bring me joy. Don’t we all need a bit more joy? It’s got book authors, fountain pen lovers, star gazers, nature photographers, music makers, comic artists and more. #MoreJoy go.bsky.app/Amyn4ZE

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

So so so good. If you need some joy, I can’t recommend this highly enough!!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I appreciate a lot about @theatlantic.com but holy cow is the hyper focus on elite private colleges odd. The Big Story about higher ed I want to read is abt the staggering increase in tuition at public unis, gutting of regional comprehensives, and the collapse of state funding that made that happen.

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear.” @jimacosta.bsky.social

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actualham @robinderosa.net · 22/01/2025

"AI Literacy" and the Pedagogy of the Oppressor, by Audrey Watters: "We’ve dismantled the welfare state, squeezed schools through decades of austerity, and offered “the Internet” – and now AI – as the alternative path forward."

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"AI Literacy" and the Pedagogy of the Oppressor

“AI Literacy.” We’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the coming months, I reckon, as various ed-tech consultants and entrepreneurs hustle to capitalize on the generative AI hype – before the…

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Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Happy MLK Day.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Highly recommend this reflective essay from Temple Prof. Seth Bruggeman. It captures the central challenge of teaching today in a system that over time has become entirely transactional, and then suddenly technology that could satisfy the transaction arrived. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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A crisis of trust in the classroom (opinion)

The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.

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Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Will this be the semester that students annotate your course syllabus? I've updated my Annotated Syllabus resource page with recent testimonials, some new links, and my statement that you can easily adopt or adapt for your course this semester. #highereducation remikalir.com/annotatedsyl...

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#AnnotatedSyllabus

I read Remi Kalir’s excellent suggestion that we have students annotate our syllabi. I stopped thinking of my syllabus as a finished document and stopped going over it in class on the first d…

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This is delightful. You like craft beer? Thank Jimmy Carter!

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

His memory will be a blessing. So grateful for his hundred years on this planet.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’m happy to share my latest _Bad Ideas About Teaching_ column: “Your Teaching Can’t Help.” Link below, and PDF available upon request.

Image of text which says “But, and I’m going to say this as gently as I can, with the
understanding that it is small comfort in this long night:
teaching well is its own good and hopeful thing.”

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

As a writer, it's my job to put things in words, but sometimes it's difficult when, as with my experience at #POD24 (an annual meeting for faculty developers) last week, every day was so meaningful and powerful in its own way. 1/

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Yo #POD24 people! I’m here at the Hyatt in Chicago ! Hit me up for hanging, hijinks, and happy meetings.

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Dr. Rebecca Weaver @weaverrew.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Oh, no. Mourning added to mourning. Rest in peace and power, Dorothy Allison. I remember going to a reading she did in Portland while in college and it was probably one of the most important and powerful readings I’ve ever been to.

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