9X9X25 Challenge – Page 2 – The Whole Classroom

Two women at a dest holding house plants and smiling.

Here is the Thing.

November 9, 2020 Todd Conaway 6x16Fall2020, 9X9X25 Challenge

Here is the thing. You are writing about your teaching and as you write, you are learning. Maybe a little, maybe a lot, but writing is thinking. As my Prescott College mentor Jim Stuckey often says, you are “wrinking.” Writing

A Day at the Improv

November 4, 2020 Todd Conaway 6x16Fall2020, 9X9X25 Challenge, schooling

The current of the class is driven by the sway and swerve of student questions and interests that are smashed upon the rocks of my authoritative guesses at what they need to know related to the course content and in

This Badge of Wrangler of Writing

November 28, 2018 Todd Conaway 6x16, 9X9X25 Challenge, schooling 2 comments

I cast my 9x9x25 vote for Terry Greene and pin upon him this badge of Wrangler of Writing. Perhaps it can go by his other notable badges. Particularly, the True Friend badge from the infamous Talky Tina. He used his

KitchenAids, Cookies, and the LMS

November 21, 2018 Todd Conaway 6x16, 9X9X25 Challenge, schooling 2 comments

We have a wonderful cobalt blue KitchenAid mixer. It is well used. And it is well loved. It matches the hand towels in the kitchen, the antique blue vases and glasses, some of the art on the walls and our

This “Doing” of the Work

November 5, 2018 Todd Conaway 6x16, 9X9X25 Challenge One comment

What are we doing here? As we share these grand visions of learning or terrible stories of woe, what are we doing? I remember when I changed my mind about how all this writing was all beneficial to me, or

More Songs about Buildings and Food

October 31, 2018 Todd Conaway 6x16, 9X9X25 Challenge, schooling One comment

Not only is the Talking Heads album “More Songs About Buildings and Food” one of my all-time favorite collections of music, but it reminds me of many of the challenges I come across in my work with faculty. And administrative

Personal Acquisition and Private Possession

October 26, 2018 Todd Conaway 6x16, 9X9X25 Challenge

In 1933, John Dewey, wondering how an alien race might see the American educational landscape pondered, “The Utopians believed that the pattern which exists in economic society in our time affected the general habits of thought; that because personal acquisition

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