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Mind Over Monsters book cover. Author is Sarah Rose Cavanagh.

Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge

Meets four times this semester (2/4, 2/18, 3/4 & 3/18) on Tuesday from 2:00-3:00 in ZSR 665 (Faculty Commons Classroom inside the Faculty Commons space in ZSR Wilson Wing).

Alarming statistics in recent years indicate that mental health problems have been skyrocketing among youth. Psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh interviews experts who work with young people to help them actualize their goals, and highlights voices of college students from a range of diverse backgrounds. The result of these combined sources of inquiry indicates that to support youth mental health, we must create what Cavanagh calls compassionate challenge.

Failing

Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do About It

Meets three times this semester (2/5, 2/19 & 3/5) on Wednesday from 3:30-4:30 in ZSR 665 (Faculty Commons Classroom inside the Faculty Commons space in ZSR Wilson Wing).

One of the most urgent and long-standing issues in the US education system is its obsession with grades. In Failing Our Future, Joshua R. Eyler shines a spotlight on how grades inhibit learning, cause problems between parents and children, amplify inequities, and contribute to the youth mental health crisis. Equal parts scathing and hopeful, Failing Our Future aims to improve the lives of students by encouraging them to define success on their own terms.

Past Reading Groups

Click on the image to see your selection in the ZSR Library digital collection. Please reach out to Kristi Verbeke at verbekkj@wfu.edu if you have a specific question about past reading groups.

Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Promoting Equity in the Classroom
Minding Bodies
Grading for Growth
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom
Infusing Critical Thinking into your Course
The Impact of a Sense of Belonging in College
Deep Teaching in College STEM Classrooms
How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Creating Inclusive Learning Opportunities in Higher Education
Cultivating Virtue in the University
Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
Relationship-Rick Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education
Small Teaching Online
Online Teaching at its Best
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Teaching with Compassion: An Educator's Oath to Teach from the Heart
Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
An Evidence-based Guide to College and University Teaching
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Discussion in the College Classroom
Teach Students how to Learn
Teaching the Silk Road
Image of the book, Why Students Resist Learning
Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide
Small Teaching
Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment
The Skillful Teacher
Creating Self-Regulated Learners
Specifications Grading
Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.
Cheating Lessons: Learning From Academic Dishonesty
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Pracctice
Image of the book, From Brain to Mind: Using Neuroscience to Guide Change in Education.

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