![]() ![]() ![]() I have been ignoring my own and, frankly, I tend to sing one note a bit too often. I have also spent the month of August look back at past contributions from guest contributors. It has been engaging as I have spent a bulk of the summer intentionally reading more diverse books and expanding my range. My current YA syllabus ( see link) is political and an attempt to be a more inclusive teacher of diverse books books that more closely align with the students who are in my classroom. What we teach, who we call on, or who we allow to maintain the conversational floor are all micro, and perhaps in some cases, macro political acts. I think it is wrong when we pretend that we are neutral actors in the classroom. Universities need the tuition money in order to keep the doors open as they receive less and less of their funding from state resources and more and more from, grants, endowment, and other sources. The fact that we are holding school at a university at all is both an act of politics and an act of capitalism. For us "remotely" means live, synchronous class meetings through a Zoom format. ![]() I was getting ready to start a new semester and was going to teach my two classes remotely. Last week's post by Ashley Boyd and Janine Darragh hit at exactly the right time for me. ![]()
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