by instructorknapp | Jun 19, 2020 | Other
So we are in the middle of chaos. A place where everything is erupting, spilling over, flowing out to sea. And we are teachers and parents who need to somehow make sense of it all to our students and children. We must somehow ground ourselves and our youth in this...
by instructorknapp | Jun 5, 2020 | Other
There is lots of talk about mindfulness but how do we teach this valuable lifelong skill? Here is a Website that helps address this void: https://childmind.org/article/the-power-of-mindfulness/ The problem with teaching mindfulness is this: to be authentic requires...
by instructorknapp | Mar 26, 2020 | Other
So happy to see my dear old friend (who has always been wiser and calmer than the rest of us normal humans!) sharing his knowledge on coping with stress in family settings. Thank you Travis!
by instructorknapp | Nov 9, 2019 | Other
As any start-up entrepreneur knows—there’s a whole world to figure out between idea and profit. Who knew there was a name for this bewildering state of discovery? Apparently, “for-benefit” organizations (that’s me) need a more cohesive support...
by instructorknapp | Jul 16, 2019 | Other
A review for my M.S. class… Serious eLearning Manifesto For the Student’s Choice Assignment, I completed an online training developed by the National Center On Safe Supportive Learning Environments. This online, interactive training was quite extensive...
by instructorknapp | Dec 30, 2018 | Other
In honor of the New Year, I hereby declare my new 2019 mantra: Change for good. After all, there are many changes that are not so good. Take aging, for example. One can succumb, and simply accept the inevitability of aging as though life were nothing more than a...
by instructorknapp | Nov 28, 2018 | Other
What a journey! After 16 weeks of reading and research, I have learned so much about Trauma-Informed educational models and Social Emotional Learning this semester! And yet if I were to estimate how much I have read compared to the amount of information out there—it...
by instructorknapp | Sep 26, 2018 | Other
So proud of my collaboration with amazingly smart Team One in the MIST Program @CSUMB. We had less than a week to read multiple theoretical research articles and formulate an opinion on Behaviorism theory in Education. We hammered out this collaboratively written...
by instructorknapp | Apr 23, 2018 | Other
So long ago, Bloom’s (1984) MIT research demonstrated the efficacy of tutoring + mastery instructional design. At the time, the only way to connect students with tutors was in face-to-face sessions—possible at some small schools—but too expensive for large...
by instructorknapp | Feb 25, 2018 | Other
I am a member of the higher education assessment police force. Only I don’t have a badge, uniform or authority. My official title is Assessment Facilitator. But my unofficial title is pain in the ass. We are a small but mighty force of faculty who care about...
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