Practitioner’s Corner contains essays and commentary for practitioners who use evidence to improve learning.
February 22, 2016
Levels of Change in Higher Education By Lisa Jasinski, Special Projects Coordinator in Academic Affairs at Trinity University Recently I was asked to examine a challenge from my professional practice in greater depth. I found inspiration in an unlikely […]
May 22, 2015
Conversation About Faculty Development and “Knowing vs. Knowing How” By Charles Blaich and Kathleen Wise In January 2015, we published a short essay on the Practitioners’ Corner about why it is so difficult to take what we read about […]
February 23, 2015
Teaching to Lead By Charles Blaich and Kathleen Wise Sometimes simple distinctions, like the oft repeated distinction between liberal arts education and vocational education, do not serve us well. As Craig Dykstra has pointed out, the term vocation does […]
January 22, 2015
Knowing vs. Knowing How By Charles Blaich and Kathleen Wise For over a decade, we have been working with faculty, staff, and administrators from colleges and universities to translate evidence into improved student learning. We are not higher education […]
April 15, 2014
Clear and Organized Teaching By Charles Blaich and Kathleen Wise An April 14, 2014 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education referenced data on teaching clarity and organization that we presented first at an AAC&U meeting in January and […]