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: Barbara Oakley This article provides a solid base in the literature about effective teamwork. The appendix “Coping with hitchhikers and couch potatoes on teams” (pp. 32-34) is a pithy, practical 3-page guide for students about how to address potentially challenging teammates’ behaviours. Read Article
This is a library of accessible technology programs and software that would be of support for students.
Author: Baruch College Writing Centre A blog post for multilingual learners explaining how to use your native language as a strategy for reading and writing in English. It gives multilingual learners permission to use and value their native language as an effective learning strategy for studying in English. The tips are clear and easy to […]
A holistic resilience resource. It integrates health promotion, and multidimensional well being with academic skill-building.
A YouTube channel filled with tips for time management, focus, concentration, writing, wellness.
This is an external holistic resource that provides studying tips and strategies in math, writing, presentation, time management, etc.
This video discusses how to implement learning strategies that students can you use to interrupt their forgetting, and strengthen their neural pathways, so they can improve overall course performance.
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
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
Author: Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery. View Book
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive–which they don’t have to be.
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