Author: Erin Michael Grimm
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On Teacher-Student Relationship
I’m not going to pretend like I know all the answers for this post, because the truth is that I don’t think there is a universal response for how to have relationships with students. Every student is different and every teacher is different. When I was a hospice volunteer I was told that there is…
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What if things were different? On Self-Care.
I’m reading a really, really good book right now: Who is Wellness For? by Fariha Roisin. She writes with a decolonial mindset, but was raised in Australia, lived in Canada for a while, lived in NYC and now lives in LA. This means that she has an international decoloniality to her. She is Muslim, South…
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A Sadness about Education
I am feeling a sadness about public education right now. And about education in the US in general. I am wondering whether we have lost what education means and what it is to have been effectively educated. When I was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, I was definitely caught up in the humanities education in…
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Writing Practice
One of the most important and crucial aspects of building the discipline of being a writer is to actually write, and for those of us who don’t like handwriting, to type, and for those of us who can’t/don’t type, to dictate. Dictation apps are available on iPhones and I’m sure on other devices as well.…
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We have to do better with scheduling our days…
It has taken me so long to get used to being out of the classroom, to be used to being able to use the bathroom when I want and not during passing period…to be able to actually enjoy my weekends rather than planning or grading for them. Teaching can be a selfless profession, for sure,…
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Going Forward Together
There is something amiss in schools these days, but it’s no one’s fault really. I think what it comes down to is that we are moving past institutions and that we are leaving people who are still in institutions behind. Students are being trained for jobs that probably won’t exist by the time that they…
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Wesley and a Theology of Access
What does justice look like today? I think it would be best termed as access. That we should skirt the idea of social justice altogether and just worry about access, which is related to but not as triggering to conservatives as the current word that is all the rage: equity. The most access-oriented theologian was…
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I’m Terrified to Go to the Career Counselor!
This is a post about emotional and affective accessibility on college campuses and their career centers. My growing concern is that students are going to college and taking all of these general education classes, switching majors all the time, and then dropping out before they get their degree. Then they have debt and are lacking…
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Flipped vs. Teacher-Centered Classrooms
Community is essential to the learning process, although I am concerned about how people with paranoid disorders would be included or would include themselves in any community at all. The teacher-focused approach of “objectivist” teaching is as flawed as the “subjectivist,” “flipped classroom” where the students become the conduits for what is acceptable knowledge in…
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Returning to Seminary, with God
I just wrote about leaving seminary, and indeed I had. I wrote that I was losing my connection with God, that it was making me passive about racial justice because we were reading so much about it, and that it was also causing me to invest too much in my teachers, their work and their…
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