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Building Your Teaching Mind Budget

Regan A. R. Gurung 

Emotion researcher Lisa Feldman Barrett uses the concept of a body budget, which is useful to consider in the context of preventing teacher burnout. According to Barrett, our brains often nonconsciously allocate resources to prepare us to deal with potential stressors or ongoing challenges. The important part is that we can build our body budget so that we can cope better with stress and experience fewer negative emotions. Read More

Take the Next STEP: Bridging Course Success to Career Readiness

Rich Yueh

How can we increase the likelihood that our class material translates into skills that students will use later in their academic and professional journeys? The STEP approach—for See, Think, Engage, and Practice—can help. Read More

Leading the Way: Strategies for Integrating AI into Writing Instruction

Nathan Pritts

What if generative AI can be used to help students with their writing in ways that prepare them for writing after college? Instructors can teach this valuable skill by having students use generative AI at different stages in the writing process: idea generation, outlining, and feedback. Read More

EDITOR'S PICK

What Do We Mean by Student Success?

Maryellen Weimer   

Like other common terms in education, “student success” would seem to have an obvious meaning. Not according to an article in CBE—Life Sciences Education. Through a study of 52 articles previously published in the journal, the authors show that success has multiple meanings, and they call for reexamining how we define it and who gets to define it. Read More

Call for Proposals: The Teaching Professor Conference

Magna Publications is accepting proposals for concurrent sessions and poster presentations for the 22nd annual Teaching Professor Conference, which will take place June 6–8, 2025, in Washington, DC. If you’re passionate about pedagogy, this conference is for you. Click for more details.

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