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Blog, Re/Kindling Creativity and Imagination

From Blank Stares to Student Leaders: Using Historical Role-playing Games to Enhance Student Engagement

June 6, 2022

It’s no fun lecturing to blank stares. As a church historian in an undergraduate institution, I teach quite a few general education classes to students who come to me ready to “do their time.” Thankfully, I stumbled upon a unique…

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Backward Design Your Life: A Pedagogy of Self-Care

April 20, 2022

It was Christmas break 2019 and I was exhausted. I had just finished my first full-time semester. I was frantically composing new lecture material during the day and at night nurturing twin toddlers. There was little self-care happening in my…

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That Day I Came to Class Dressed as Athena: The Pedagogy of Fun

January 19, 2022

I took a deep breath and stepped out of my office dressed as the Greek goddess Athena. My historically inaccurate Amazon purchase had me in a “Roman Spartan Costume Helmet,” a “Roman Empress” costume over my clothes, holding a large…

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