Contents

  1. Acknowledgements

  2. Introduction

  3. I. Building Community

    1. 1. A Network to Call On

    2. 2. Putting Words to Practice

    3. 3. The Joy in Connecting

    4. 4. Leaving With My Own List

    5. 5. Hope in Community

    6. 6. Learning Alongside

    7. 7. Connecting Across Invisible Boundaries

    8. 8. A Staff Learning Community

    9. 9. Translating Tools of the CPLC

    10. 10. Challenges and Looking Ahead

    11. 11. To Work Toward a Collective Good

    12. 12. Interconnectivity

  4. II. Student Agency in Education

    1. 13. A Dream in Motion

    2. 14. Teacher = Student: A Communicative Property

    3. 15. Partnerships and Possibilities: A Student's Experience

    4. 16. Overloaded/Resonant

    5. 17. Filling In the Remainder

    6. 18. Opening Opportunities for Engagement

    7. 19. Learning as Process

  5. III. Project-Based Learning

    1. 20. Exploration Instead of Fear

    2. 21. Inquiry and Sharing

    3. 22. A Current State of Evolution

    4. 23. Critiquing Approaches, Sharing Strategies

    5. 24. An Adventure of Our Own

    6. 25. Open up and say “PBL”

    7. 26. Reflecting, Adapting, Implementing

    8. 27. Developing a New Project-Based Assignment

    9. 28. TWP Takes a Village

    10. 29. Here Be Dragons

  6. IV. Interdisciplinarity & Collaboration

    1. 30. Inside & Outside of the Classroom

    2. 31. Including the Instructor

    3. 32. Bridging Worlds With Habits of Mind

    4. 33. Guideposts

    5. 34. Continuing Commitment, Increasing Impact

    6. 35. Slowing Down, Making Space

    7. 36. Actively Seeking Collaboration

    8. 37. Engaging Over Coffee

    9. 38. Visualizing Collaboration

    10. 39. Being Hannah Gadsby: Some Thoughts on Disciplinarity

  7. V. Open and Accessibile Education

    1. 40. The Open Pluriverse

    2. 41. Pedagogy and Social Justice

    3. 42. "Just Look For Openings"

    4. 43. Our Involvement in Oppressive Systems

    5. 44. Small Impacts Carried Forward

    6. 45. A New Mindset, An Open Approach

    7. 46. In the Meta Sense

    8. 47. An "Aha!" Moment

    9. 48. Focusing on Process

    10. 49. Mutual Humanness in Academia

    11. 50. Padlet of Takeaways

    12. 51. Activating Open Labs for Apex Community Impact

    13. 52. OPENly Optimistic: My experience with the CPLC

    14. 53. Accessibility, Transparency, and Learner-Driven Assignments

    15. 54. Working Together Better

    16. 55. Pedagogy for Healthy Balance

  8. VI. Taking Risks

    1. 56. Healing, Engaging, and Taking Risks

    2. 57. A Year in Practice

    3. 58. Particularly Complex Work

    4. 59. Student Agency & Unknown Territory

    5. 60. Toolkits and Teams

    6. 61. The Pedagogues Our Students Deserve

    7. 62. The Gestalt of Teaching

    8. 63. Overwhelmed & Open

    9. 64. Scholarly Detours and New Beginnings

  9. VII. Institutional Transformation

    1. 65. Pasts, Presents, Futures

    2. 66. Picturing "Tackling a Wicked Problem"

    3. 67. Not In the Caboose

    4. 68. The Habits of Mind: A Holistic System

    5. 69. A Year in Practice: Synthesis & Visiion

    6. 70. Reinvigorated Practice

    7. 71. Values Horizon

    8. 72. How do we want to learn? What do we want to learn?

    9. 73. Generous Thinking Now

    10. 74. Do Better Not More

    11. 75. Unbalanced Love

    12. 76. Walking the Walk with Habits of Mind

    13. 77. Barriers to Vulnerability

    14. 78. Thankful in our Shared Work

    15. 79. Caesar, Machiavelli, You and Me

    16. 80. Working Across an Institution

    17. 81. How did this many absences become normal?

    18. 82. Restorative Experiences

  10. VIII. Empathetic Instruction

    1. 83. Jellybeans

    2. 84. Inclusion & Belonging

    3. 85. Stark Realities

    4. 86. Addressing Student Challenges in Learning Environments

    5. 87. Teaching the Whole Student: A Work in Progress

    6. 88. Radical Kindness

    7. 89. Accessibility, Empathy, and Exhaustion

    8. 90. Vulnerability, Caution, and Willingness

    9. 91. Lessons in Empathy

    10. 92. Investigating Empathy

    11. 93. Empathy & Tackling a Wicked Problem

    12. 94. The Roots of Self-Care

  11. Appendix A: The Values That Guide Us: Faculty, Staff, & Students Talk About What Drives PSU

  12. Appendix B: The Unofficial PSU CPLC Values Workbook

  13. Appendix C: What does a learning community look like?

  14. Appendix D: What "learning community" looks like at Plymouth State