Teaching in Higher Ed

Beth Cougler Blom on how teaching and facilitation skills are built in life’s ordinary moments — noticing, saying hello first, and staying curious.

Quotes from the episode

When you love what you do, you see it everywhere.

-Beth Cougler Blom

I’m here in Canada, and I’m on the West Coast, and there’s so many people learning here all the time about how to be living and working in a diverse community.

-Beth Cougler Blom

If we hone our noticing skills, then we can notice what’s going on with ourselves when we’re teaching.

-Beth Cougler Blom

When I make a mistake, often, I’ll tell the group, because that’s how we all learn too.

-Beth Cougler Blom

Resources

Everyday Acts of Facilitation, by Beth Cougler Blom

Design to Engage, by Beth Cougler Blom

Facilitating on Purpose Podcast

BCB Learning Inc.

Scarlett Johansson Has a Trick for Answering Questions (Dorie Clark)

How Librarians Find Their Next Read (Instagram)

ClassPass

Jazzercise

Your Brain on Art, by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

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