Resources We Love

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Read.

These are the books we love on all things teaching and learning.

• What the Best College Teachers Do

• How Humans Learn

• Unlocking The Magic of Facilitation 

• Design for How People Learn 

• Make it Stick 

• The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures 

• Small Teaching

• Training From the Back of the Room 

• The Ten-Minute Trainer 

• The Naked Presenter 

• Resonate 

• slide:ology

• Make Space

• Creative Acts for Curious People

Learn.

We believe that teaching should be intentionally inclusive and anti-racist. Here are the books that inform those teaching practices.

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed

• Teaching to Transgress

• Pushout

• The New Jim Crow

• Me and White Supremacy

• How to be an Anti-Racist

• Courageous Conversations about Race

• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

• Blind Spot

• Whistling Vivaldi

• Stamped From the Beginning

• White Rage

• Between the World and Me

• So You Want to Talk About Race

Grow.

We love connecting with other educators, trainers, and facilitators. Here are some of the places we find community.

• Higher Ed Learning Collective

• Antiracist Education Now (Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook)

• The Teaching Professor (newsletter and conference)

• Card-Carrying Facilitators (Facebook group)

Use.

These are some of our “go to” tools that we use for teaching, training and facilitating active learning activities.

• Chime

• Sticky Wall - you can buy a pre-made one here or follow these instructions to build your own

• Facilitator Cards

• Blue painter’s tape

• At-home laminator

• Index cards

• Play dough

• Stickers for dot voting

• Post-it notes of all shapes and sizes (we especially love BIG Super Sticky post-its)

• Sharpies

• Dry Erase Markers

• Mini-dry erase boards

• Vinyl pouches (easy to transport materials)

• Fidgets (we love monkey noodles and tangles)

Re-use.

Do you have a training kit? Here are the things in ours - we can’t imagine training without it!

• Training kit storage box (what we put everything in)

• Hand sanitizer

• Hand lotion

• Blue painter’s tape

• Stickers (a variety for grouping folks)

• Ziploc bags (gallon, quart, and snack size)

• Markers (dry-erase and regular)

• Command strips

• Mini-stapler

• Paper clips

• Cough drops

• Wet Ones

• Scissors

• Scotch Tape

• Hole Punch

• Rubber bands

• Deck of playing cards

• Foam dice

• Business cards

Connect.

It can be harder than ever to truly feel connected in today’s digital world. Here are the tools we use to do our best to simulate the connectedness we experience when teaching, training, and facilitating in person.

• Gather

• AHA Slides

• Mentimeter

• Poll Everywhere

• Google Jamboard

• Mural

• Miro