Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change
Every chapter provides a detailed review of systemic resilience from one disciplinary perspective, drawing from cutting edge research and case studies.
College students’ sense of belonging: A key to educational success for all students
This book offers readers practical guidelines for belonging, underpinned by theory and research, on students’ social identities, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus.
Wilfrid Laurier University Professional Development certificates
Author: Wilfrid Laurier University Laurier’s professional development non-credit courses and certificates provide training for learning specialists who would like to build their skills in counselling techniques and/or positive psychology. View Course
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Author: Barbara Oakley Neuroscientists have made enormous strides in understanding the brain and how we learn, but little of that insight has filtered down to the way teachers teach. Uncommon Sense Teaching applies this research to the classroom for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in improving education. View Book
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Part 2: Building Community and Habits of Learning
Author: Barbara Oakley This is like no other course on teaching—it weaves late-breaking insights from neuroscience with personal insights from the classroom to provide unexpected, yet practical, new approaches. View Course
Uncommon Sense Teaching
Author: Barbara Oakley This is like no other course on teaching—it weaves late-breaking insights from neuroscience with personal insights from the classroom to provide unexpected, yet practical, new approaches. View Course
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
Author: Amy C. Edmondson Both are well-researched, practical and accessible and address how to shift foundations to allow more inclusive, empowering practices that we didn’t necessarily learn how to navigate. View Book
The Effective Manager
Author: Mark Horstman The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world’s number-one business podcast, this book distills the author’s 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today. View Book
Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption, for SIS and PWR
Teaching during times of potential disruption requires creative and flexible thinking about how instructors can support students in achieving essential core course learning objectives. This document offers suggestions for instructors in Stanford University’s PWR and Thinking Matters looking to continue offering a student-centered learning experience in a remote or online learning environment.
Sustainable embedded academic literacy development: the gradual handover of literacy teaching
Author: Lucy Macnaught, Mark Bassett, Vanessa van der Ham, John Milne & Chris Jenkin It’s about academic literacy specialists potentially ‘getting stuck’ teaching in a limited number of tertiary courses and programs. The article explores issues and options for co-creating and then gradually ‘handing over’ literacy teaching to lecturers. It also investigates relationships between what is taught […]
Supporting Student Success
Dr. Tricia Seifert’s blog is an ongoing home to guest writers who share their insights about learning, student development, and research.
Kindness as a Leadership Principle
Kindness is an underrated, overlooked, and often denigrated capacity. This piece articulates why kindness-based management skills ought to be honed and prioritized.