Month: September 2020

Calm and Compassionate Online Teaching: Q&A with Shelley Rodrigo

On By nortonlearningblogIn Composition, Teaching spotlight

Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo has been teaching online for more than 20 years. She has also developed and administered an online writing program and supported instructors as an instructional technologist. Shelley is the interim director of the writing program; associate professor in the rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English (RCTE); and associate writing specialist (continuing …

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Having “The Talk” with Your Students about Implicit Racism

On By nortonlearningblogIn Psychology, Teaching spotlight

Toni Schmader holds the Canada research chair in social psychology at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was previously a faculty member at the University of Arizona. She is the director of UBC’s Social Identity Laboratory and of a Canada-wide research …

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