When I began working in higher education, I unintentionally left my arts background behind in the colorful classrooms of my middle and high school teaching life. I became caught up in a narrow conception of scholarly-teaching and the “tenure track,” which didn’t include the arts . . . or so it seemed. Models for incorporating the arts in teaching and […]

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The idea for this journaling spread began with inspiration from Terry Tempest Williams who references the Indian teachings of Samkhya in her book Refuge (1991, p. 168), writing:  “If you consciously hold within yourself three quarters of your power and use only one quarter to respond to any communication coming from others, you can stop the automatic, immediate and thoughtless

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Communities of practice are generally defined as “learning partnership[s] among people who find it useful to learn from and with each other about a particular domain…[using] each others’ experience of practice as a learning resource” (Wenger, Trayner, & de Laat, 2011, p. 9). Yet, I have been curious about how we might locate value beyond a domain-based, intellectual exercise to

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