Reaching every student in your General Education class. 

Stacy Palen is an award-winning professor at Weber State University. She received her BS in physics from Rutgers University and her PhD in physics from the University of Iowa. As a lecturer at the University of Washington, she taught Introductory Astronomy more than 20 times over 4 years. She spends most of her time thinking …

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Discussing Stereotypes, Prejudices, and Discrimination in Your Social Psychology Course  

Thomas Gilovich is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology and codirector of the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research at Cornell University. He has taught social psychology for more than 35 years and is the recipient of the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award at Cornell. His research focuses on judgment, decision-making, and well-being, and he …

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Four Questions to Help Integrate Environmental Justice into Your Course

Daniel J. Sherman is the Luce-Funded Professor of Environmental Policy and Decision Making and Director of the Sound Policy Institute at the University of Puget Sound. He studies the roles individuals and groups play in environmental politics, policy, and sustainability. In addition to his undergraduate text,  Environmental Science and Sustainability, Sherman published Not Here, Not There, Not …

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Who Me, Biased? 

Lori Hodin teaches Psychology and is the Coordinator of Safe School Initiatives at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, MA. She loves teaching Psychology and has been teaching for 30 years, working with High School Students and AP® Psychology teachers for the last 25 years. As Safe Schools Coordinator, she uses psychology in peer mediation training, violence prevention …

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Experiment? Correlation? What’s the Difference?

Rob McEntarffer taught English, psychology, and philosophy for thirteen years at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, NE. He has degrees in educational measurement and teaching, learning, and teacher education from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and currently works as an assessment/evaluation specialist. He is a coauthor of the Student Study and Retrieval Guide for …

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Using a Previewing Strategy to Help Students Get the Most Out of Reading

Grace Ferris is an assistant professor of chemistry at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, where she teaches General Chemistry I & II, Organic Chemistry I & II, Introductory Biochemistry, and Life Chemistry: Drugs in Our Lives. She earned her BA in chemistry with a minor in education from Mount Holyoke College in 2008 and her …

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Climate Anxiety? Inject A Note of Grounded Optimism

David Montgomery is a professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. in geology at Stanford University (1984) and his Ph.D. in geomorphology from UC Berkeley (1991). Montgomery studies the evolution of topography and the influence of geomorphological processes on ecological systems and human societies. He is the author …

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IMPACT Student Study Skills 

Dr. Sarah Grison is an associate professor of psychology at Parkland College and the coordinator for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. She is a coauthor of the introductory psychology textbook Psychology in Your Life, which was recently published in its Fourth Edition. This article was adapted from a virtual workshop, and the …

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Seeing the Big Picture of Climate Emergency on Earth Day

De-nin D. Lee is an Associate Professor of Art History in the department of visual & media arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is a co-author of Thames & Hudson’s art history survey text, The History of Art: A Global View, and the forthcoming Asian art history text, The History of Asian Art: A Global View. …

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Virtual Field Trips—What I’m Taking Forward

Daniel J. Sherman is the Luce-Funded Professor of Environmental Policy and Decision Making and Director of the Sound Policy Institute at the University of Puget Sound. He studies the roles individuals and groups play in environmental politics, policy, and sustainability. In addition to his undergraduate text, Environmental Science and Sustainability, Sherman published Not Here, Not …

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