Teaching in Higher Ed

Bethany Morrison shares civic professionalism and how disciplinary identity shapes civic discourse on episode 632 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Democracy needs to be born every generation. We can’t just assume it… Every generation, we have to kind of rebirth it, and it has to happen in our schools.

-Bethany Morrison

One of the principles that we often recommend is setting some community discussion guidelines, talking together as a classroom community about how we want things to go when those hot moments come up later.

-Bethany Morrison

Not saying anything has meaning too. So if you don’t say anything, you are making a decision, and students are going to read that to mean it was okay.

-Bethany Morrison

Resources

Promoting Democracy, Fostering Skills (Bethany Morrison, CRLT Substack)

Selecting Classroom Activities for Promoting Democracy (Bethany Morrison, CRLT Substack)

Promoting Democracy Teaching Series (Ginsberg Center)

How My Profession Influences Policy: Assignment Guide and Instructions

A Framework for Planning and Facilitating High-Stakes Discussions

Making the Most of “Hot Moments” in the Classroom (CRLT Handout)

Talking Maize & Blue (University of Michigan)

Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)

Ginsberg Center for Community and Civic Engagement

Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, by Donna Hicks

UMICH Votes

AllSides

Finch

Jeff Kim shares how faculty can use video in our teaching and make it sustainable on episode 631 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You raise what you praise. So through these vlogs, you’ll see me not complaining, but actually praising a lot.

-Jeff Kim

Sometimes people can feel a little bit wary about being on social media; they know that the way that I’m going to produce the video is going to be in such a way that’s uplifting.

-Jeff Kim

A vision that I have for my channel is helping students to find out what they’re good at so that they can do good with it.

-Jeff Kim

Resources

Dr. Jeffrey Kim, Irvine Unified School District Board of Education

The EdFamily YouTube Channel

E222: How to create YOUR YouTube Video in 5 Easy Steps

EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: Cambridge Virtual Academy (CVA)

EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: Education for Love and Wisdom Book

EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: Understanding the Roots of Saigu

EdFamily with Dr. Jeff Playlist: BTS — Behind the Scenes on the School Board

Mendez Freedom Trail Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, April 14, 2026 (Sylvia Mendez Day)

E427: Seoul Station to Busan, Korea by KTX Train (Day 8) — Jeff’s Most Viewed Video

Cambridge Virtual Academy, Anaheim Union High School District

Korean American Studies Course at Anaheim Union High School District (EdSource)

Mendez Freedom Trail Brings Landmark Desegregation Case to Life for OC Students (OCDE Newsroom)

Mendez Tribute Monument Park and Freedom Trail (City of Westminster)

Sylvia Mendez (Britannica Biography)

Mendez v. Westminster: The Final Ruling, 75 Years Later (OCDE Newsroom)

OCDE (Orange County Department of Education)

Education for Love and Wisdom: Effective Teachers for Challenging Times, by Jeff Hittenberger, Pamela Tupy Scott, Andrew Ntzouras, Renee Rose, Alexander Lin, Jeffrey Kim, Joanne Van Boxtel, Megan Chaney, Rebecca Spady, Glen Warren, Christine Hittenberger-Corbin, Seon Chun-Burbank

Education for Love and Wisdom Podcast

Love, Wisdom, and Human Flourishing in Education, with Jeff Hittenberger (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 541)

Vanguard University School of Education

California State University, Fullerton — College of Education

Faith and Community Empowerment (FACE)

Asian Pacific Islander School Board Members Association (APISBMA)

Think Media on YouTube

Alan Levine — CogDogBlog

Civic Access Pouch 2L (Evergoods)

POD Conference Fumbling and Evergoods Access Pouch (YouTube)

Poll Everywhere

Anna Mills shares Peer and AI Review and Reflection, plus a layered approach to writing feedback on episode 630 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

My sense of the value of feedback has not changed. It’s more important than ever, more meaningful than ever, when we do have that connection through words.

-Anna Mills

I think overall I’ve advocated for more sort of technical support for transparency about what is AI and what is not.

-Anna Mills

Students preferred both the peer and the AI feedback. They did not want one or the other.

-Anna Mills

AI companies should be designing so that their agents don’t go in and say, “I’m a student taking a quiz.”

-Anna Mills

Resources

Poll Everywhere

AXL 2026 Keynote with Alex Vasquez

Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents, Modern Language Association

Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR), UC Davis Writing Program

Contradictory Feedback Chatbot on PlayLab

Anna Mills on Amazon vs. Perplexity and Distinguishing Agentic AI Bots from Humans (LinkedIn)

Anna Mills on Judge Orders Perplexity to Stop AI Agents (LinkedIn)

More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner

Jellyboard

Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication

MyEssayFeedback.ai

AI and College Writing: An Orientation

Luke Green uses the Santa Claus story to rethink what grades measure and the case for ungrading on episode 629 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Each student at some point throughout their academic career is going to receive a grade, receive some sort of an assessment that is going to fundamentally alter how they feel about the classroom.

-Luke Green

The narrative that we sell to our kids is that these gifts are earned. The metric is, those who are good children or better children, you receive more.

-Luke Green

What are grades, and what purpose do we want them to serve?

-Luke Green

Usually, it’s a proxy of understanding a student’s overall experience. And GPA is even worse, because you’re putting all of your course grades into a meat grinder and spitting out one number.

-Luke Green

Resources

Luke Green, St. Cloud Technical & Community College

Luke Green Recognized at MinnState Board Awards

Grading for Growth, by David Clark and Robert Talbert

Unmaking the Grade, by Emily Pitts Donahoe

Learning About Grades from an Emerging Failure, with Emily Pitts Donahoe and Hannah Stachowiak

Campbell’s Law

Hood Politics with Prop

There Really Is a Santa Claus, by Glenn P. Crone

Remi Kalir shares the Fair Feedback Project for addressing bias in student evaluations on episode 628 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

If you actually have students write about affirming values as a kind of open free write before they complete an evaluation of teaching, it actually has been shown to mitigate bias.

-Remi Kalir

There are many people who are experiencing the effects of these structural patterns of bias who don’t look like me. So what can I do? How can I show up as an individual in this?

-Remi Kalir

I did not want people coming to the Fair Feedback project and then having long-winded, tangential, potentially problematic conversations with Claude as a chatbot.

-Remi Kalir

You can call it my complicity, you can call it my complexity, whatever you might call it, but I am very much entangled in this AI moment, trying to understand how I am navigating all of this.

-Remi Kalir

Resources

The Fair Feedback Project

Remi Kalir at the Duke Center for Teaching and Learning

Remi Kalir — remi(x)learning

Claude’s Remi Record

The Research on Course Evaluations, with Betsy Barre (Teaching in Higher Ed)

The Potential Impact of Stereotype Threat, with Robin Paige (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 79)

How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable, with David Gooblar (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 599)

Claude M. Steele, Stanford Department of Psychology

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude M. Steele

Ludmila Praslova, PhD — Vanguard University

The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work, by Ludmila N. Praslova

Teaching: Is There a Fix to the Teaching-Evaluation Problem? by Beth McMurtrie (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

A Practical Guide to Modern Teaching Evaluation, by Michael McCreary (Engaged Learning Collective)

Transforming College Teaching Evaluation: A Framework for Advancing Instructional Excellence, by Ann E. Austin, Noah D. Finkelstein, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Doug Ward, and Gabriela Cornejo Weaver

Rebecca Fordon — AI Law Librarians

Aria Chernik, JD, PhD — Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education

Claude Code

Cowork by Claude

Bartz v. Anthropic — Anthropic Copyright Settlement

Anthropic Settles With Authors in First-of-Its-Kind AI Copyright Lawsuit (NPR)

My Tech Disclaimer, by Doug Belshaw

My 2026 Tech Stack, by Bonni Stachowiak (Teaching in Higher Ed)

The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (podcast)

Poll Everywhere