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letter eighteen: theory, learning, and design

Chúc mừng năm mới! Happy new year! It’s the year of the tiger. The last month has been full of loss, and grief, and I found myself particularly moved by…

Feb 1, 2022 •

January 2022

letter seventeen:

Hi again! Hello. How are you? Reviving this newsletter because it’s 2022, also known as, the year I really write my dissertation. It’s happening! Even…

Jan 23, 2022 •

August 2021

letter sixteen: a mid-august update

Ohai! I came back to this newsletter fully intending to continue writing on a weekly basis but…my summer to-do list still looks like this. It’s been a…

Aug 20, 2021 •

June 2021

letter fifteen: hello again

"I move through the world gathering inspiration for my thinking. Everything [shapes my thinking]." - Dr. Sherice Clarke Ohai. I started this newsletter…

Jun 12, 2021 •

March 2020

letter fourteen: observing, supporting, and enacting communities

Ohai, It is the end of what has been a long week, and my brain and my body are tired. Today is cold, and cloudy, and dark, and I don't know about you…

Mar 6, 2020 •

January 2020

letter thirteen: looking back and planning for the spring

Tl;dr: a smattering of thoughts, readings, and recommendation. Ohai. :) Some thoughts... We've rolled into 2020, and I feel inundated with "best of the…

Jan 4, 2020 •

December 2019

letter twelve: striking, baking, and climbing

"Our human condition is such that we are forever in the situation of deciding how much attention to give to self-generated thought and how much to…

Dec 3, 2019 •

October 2019

letter eleven: anxieties and possibilities

"Anxiety is a necessary component of a truly creative experience. How do we as teachers recognize and support our students as they struggle with the…

Oct 8, 2019 •

July 2019

letter ten: doing things efficiently and doing nothing at all

"I’m suggesting that we protect our spaces and our time for non-instrumental, non-commercial activity and thought, for maintenance, for care, for…

Jul 14, 2019 •

March 2019

"Everything tangled in the string of everything else. When her cat vomited, she thought she heard the word praxis." (Patricia Lockwood on the communal…

Mar 24, 2019 •

February 2019

Dear friends, Updates from my corner of the world: (tl;dr: Passed orals. Made things. Read things.) Grad school: I PASSED ORALS! This is one of those…

Feb 22, 2019 •

January 2019

Dear friends, January is a cold, dreary time, and I love it as a time to slow down, reset, and be productive. Between the millennial burnout thinkpieces…

Jan 23, 2019 •

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