Perhaps you are a manager who would like to support your staff as they broaden their professional knowledge. Perhaps you are developing asynchronous or course-embedded content for students or faculty to use. Perhaps you are collecting training material for peer helpers you supervise, or perhaps you are seeking a resource on a particular topic to share with a student you’re helping. We hope you find what you need in the sections below!
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Author: Kelly McGonigal Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal, PhD, discusses research on how stress can make us stronger, smarter, and happier—if we learn how to embrace it. View Book
Author: Heather McGhee McGhee offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color. View Book
Author: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality–not greater wealth–is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it. View Book
Author: Daniel R. Sanford & Michelle Steiner A comprehensive guide for both new and experienced learning center professionals about how to deliver effective services, articulate the value of their programs, and provide peer tutors with conditions for success. View Book
Author: Albert Ellis Cognition, emotions, and behaviors include and affect one another, and can combine into dysfunctional philosophic assumptions that lead to neurotic disturbances. Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET), described in this resource, tries to help clients to make a philosophic change. View Article
Author: Stephen Kaplan This resource encourages turning to nature to nourish focus and manage distraction. View Article
Author: Stephen Jay Gould When first published, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a new introduction, tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness […]
The Learnwell Project's mission is to help colleges and universities eliminate academic-related retention problems by creating complementary learning environments.
Author: The Learning Scientists This website has informative, well-researched tips on how to learn and study. It’s presented in a clear and accessible way, and is very helpful for both students and professionals. View Website
Author: Saundra McGuire The author uses the concept of metacognition to introduce to readers the importance of understanding themselves as learners. View Book
What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance.
The intent of this website is to provide helpful information for instructors in understanding how a wide range of disabilities impact students' learning and assessment environments. The goal of this website is to better equip instructors to support students with disabilities and to identify the institution support entities that provide accommodation assistance to both students and instructors.
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