Psychologist, writer, educational developer.
Senior Associate Director of Teaching & Learning at Simmons University.
PI of TUnE-Bio (NSF RCN-UBE Incubator).
Author of SPARK OF LEARNING, HIVEMIND, EMOTION & MOTIVATION (co-author), & MIND OVER MONSTERS (pre-order!).
Writes about emotions, teaching, brains. Enjoys cooking, gardening, fiction, vampires, Halloween, dogs, and the sea.
Cover photo by @lewistontheway on Unsplash
It started with @cogdog sharing about #LiaScript, combined w/ me, once again, wanting to burn a course to the ground.
I'm #learningoutloud throughout the process of redesigning my 2024 Spring course using #markdown #OER #LiaScript #AI and a lot of #CompassionateChallenge (thank you, @SaRoseCav ❤️
No doubt I'll make mistakes along the way and change my mind, often... If that sort of thing is interesting to you, here's how it started:
This was really fun to put together Shepherd.com asked me to choose five books that most shaped or best related to the content of my book.
https://shepherd.com/best-books/help-us-face-our-monsters-and-embrace-mental-healt
One week from today....
Friends in the Washington, D.C. area!
June 14th, 6pm come hear me and Abby Marsh chat about fear, anxiety, and the youth #mentalhealth crisis at Busboys & Poets (Brookland location)
Details and register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mind-over-monsters-a-busboys-and-poets-books-presentation-tickets-638112941987
New newsletter with links to slides and recording for our webinar on transforming assessment, grading, and feedback in undergrad biology education - as well as a roundup of all my essays and podcast interviews for the book launch this month.
#education #highered #biology #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness
https://sarahrosecav.substack.com/p/a-transformative-webinar-recording
"To support youth mental health, we need to provide security for the adults that surround them. To extend the security benefits people like me enjoy for reasons of accident of birth and fortunate circumstances. To reknit a safety net. For youth to aspire to good mental health, they need to see models of good mental health around them."
Wonderful, painful implications for those of us in faculty development from @SaRoseCav
https://lithub.com/how-our-well-being-is-inextricably-linked-to-that-of-those-around-us
I treasure every conversation with
@bonni208, and this was no exception.
We talk monsters, mental health, and motivation on her Teaching in Higher Ed podcast:
Rounding out the first week of Mind Over Monsters - thanks for all your support!
To order: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710950/mind-over-monsters-by-sarah-rose-cavanagh/
To listen and read relevant articles, podcasts, and interviews, click here: https://linktr.ee/sarosecav
An investigation into the mental health crisis affecting young adults today, and an impassioned argument for creating learning environments characterized both by compassion and challenge Alarming statistics...
Next Monday! Register: https://eventbrite.com/e/transforming-assessment-feedback-grading-webinar-tickets-611217998487
We've been analyzing the data & checking it twice, can't wait to share what we've learned from ~ 300 intro biology instructors about their assessment, feedback, grading practices, barriers to innovation, and hopes for the future.
New by me
The surprising recipe for building students’ emotional well-being in the classroom? Rest and joy — for professors.
Bonni Stachowiak
Joe Murphy
