Dr. Bethany N. Morrison
@bethanynmorrison.bsky.social
Teaching consultant, political scientist, & data nerd at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) at University of Michigan. Adjunct instructor at the Ford School of Public Policy.
I've been wanting to write more—from my own voice—and the CRLT Substack made a small step possible. This piece is intended as a guided tour of some CRLT and Ginsberg resources supporting instructors building skills for better civil discourse #highered #teachlearnsky
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Promoting Democracy: Fostering Skills for Better Civil Discourse
Resources to support instructors preparing students for productive engagement with differing viewpoints, values, and experiences.
crlt.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I've been wanting to write more—from my own voice—and the CRLT Substack made a small step possible. This piece is intended as a guided tour of some CRLT and Ginsberg resources supporting instructors building skills for better civil discourse #highered #teachlearnsky
crlt.substack.com/p/promoting-...
crlt.substack.com/p/promoting-...
Reposted by Dr. Bethany N. Morrison
How can you manage hot moments in the classroom when just about any topic can be a hot one?
Today on the podcast I talk with @prairiedogking.bsky.social and @bethanynmorrison.bsky.social about navigating high-stakes discussions in the year 2025.
www.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
Today on the podcast I talk with @prairiedogking.bsky.social and @bethanynmorrison.bsky.social about navigating high-stakes discussions in the year 2025.
www.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
September 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
How can you manage hot moments in the classroom when just about any topic can be a hot one?
Today on the podcast I talk with @prairiedogking.bsky.social and @bethanynmorrison.bsky.social about navigating high-stakes discussions in the year 2025.
www.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
Today on the podcast I talk with @prairiedogking.bsky.social and @bethanynmorrison.bsky.social about navigating high-stakes discussions in the year 2025.
www.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
Anyone else use Steve’s Lava Chicken to explain the concept of “bad” words to their kids?
September 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Anyone else use Steve’s Lava Chicken to explain the concept of “bad” words to their kids?
Ways my PhD training fundamentally altered my brain, part 51: I just thought to myself: potential meanings of "teaching statement" has a very narrow distribution, while "teaching portfolio" has quite a wide one. How do I communicate that like a normal person? Should I make a graph?
September 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ways my PhD training fundamentally altered my brain, part 51: I just thought to myself: potential meanings of "teaching statement" has a very narrow distribution, while "teaching portfolio" has quite a wide one. How do I communicate that like a normal person? Should I make a graph?
Hey #polisky, esp. folks who teach state & local politics, I'm working on a short piece on supporting students' engagement in down-ballot/local elections *across the disciplines.* I'm looking for resources/tools students could engage with as an in-class activity or homework...
CivicSearch
Search local government meetings and texts
civicsearch.org
September 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hey #polisky, esp. folks who teach state & local politics, I'm working on a short piece on supporting students' engagement in down-ballot/local elections *across the disciplines.* I'm looking for resources/tools students could engage with as an in-class activity or homework...
Ugh. Why’s it so hard to pick up a class to adjunct??? 😫Come on! I’m super qualified—My fulltime role is all pedagogy all the time. I have a PhD from a top 20 school. I don’t need much from you, local colleges! Just want to do the thing I love, so I can enjoy & be good at supporting others doing it.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Ugh. Why’s it so hard to pick up a class to adjunct??? 😫Come on! I’m super qualified—My fulltime role is all pedagogy all the time. I have a PhD from a top 20 school. I don’t need much from you, local colleges! Just want to do the thing I love, so I can enjoy & be good at supporting others doing it.
Does anyone else find themselves using an em-dash to avoid using too many exclamation points in email???? Gotta rein it in for #highered
#academicsky
#academicsky
April 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Does anyone else find themselves using an em-dash to avoid using too many exclamation points in email???? Gotta rein it in for #highered
#academicsky
#academicsky
Can you imagine if the record for holding the Senate floor was done in the spirit of John Lewis's "good trouble" and not held by a segregationist blocking civil rights?
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Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 19 hours and counting
The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. Monday. Here's what to know about his marathon speech.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Can you imagine if the record for holding the Senate floor was done in the spirit of John Lewis's "good trouble" and not held by a segregationist blocking civil rights?
www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
Last fall, I shared a piece on selecting activities for engaging with politics, policy, & social issues in #highered classes. I created a graphic handout to compliment the piece. It’s nonpartisan, with lots of specific activities linked to civic skills students are developing. tiny.cc/PDTS_handout
PDTS - Classroom Activities for Engaging with Politics, Policy, and Social Issues_Handout
Classroom Activities for Engaging with Politics, Policy, & Social Issues Across the disciplines, we have valuable opportunities to support our students’ civic learning and democratic engagement by fos...
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March 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Last fall, I shared a piece on selecting activities for engaging with politics, policy, & social issues in #highered classes. I created a graphic handout to compliment the piece. It’s nonpartisan, with lots of specific activities linked to civic skills students are developing. tiny.cc/PDTS_handout
Resource share! I often get questions about teaching portfolios in my workshops on teaching statements. I've found this #highered job document hard to parse. @ckorpan.bsky.social demystifies it in this guide. I'm excited to start sharing it with our graduate students. #EdDev #FacDev
tiny.cc/81r8001
tiny.cc/81r8001
Crafting a Winning Teaching Dossier/Portfolio: Insider Secrets to Stand Out in the Academic Job Market — UVA Teaching Hub
<p>How do you successfully document your teaching? In this collection, you will explore self-study approaches that provide you with an authentic representation of your teaching based on evidence of wh...
teaching.virginia.edu
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Resource share! I often get questions about teaching portfolios in my workshops on teaching statements. I've found this #highered job document hard to parse. @ckorpan.bsky.social demystifies it in this guide. I'm excited to start sharing it with our graduate students. #EdDev #FacDev
tiny.cc/81r8001
tiny.cc/81r8001
Hey #EdDev / #FacDev community, last term I did public-facing writing for the first time in ages. It felt good. The pressure of the election cycle (this was the work on teaching during an election) helped me carve out the time. In the absence of that external force, how do you make it happen?
January 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Looking for resources for managing the deluge of student emails, particularly in large courses. Breana Bayraktar & @roberttalbert.bsky.social have great pieces on it from a few years ago (shared below), but wondering what else folks share with faculty. #facdev #eddev
rtalbert.org/dealing-with...
rtalbert.org/dealing-with...
Dealing with academic email
Either we profs are in charge of our email, or it's in charge of us.
rtalbert.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Looking for resources for managing the deluge of student emails, particularly in large courses. Breana Bayraktar & @roberttalbert.bsky.social have great pieces on it from a few years ago (shared below), but wondering what else folks share with faculty. #facdev #eddev
rtalbert.org/dealing-with...
rtalbert.org/dealing-with...
In the morning, I'm all "Yes, I CAN carve out a role for myself, where I can teach, write about teaching, work on civic education across the curriculum, and facilitate impactful programming for faculty. In fact, I'm going to do X and Y and Z today." By the end of the day, I'm all
a stuffed animal with the words oh written on it
Alt: baby Fozzy the Bear sighs and looks crestfallen with the word "oh" overlaying it.
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January 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In the morning, I'm all "Yes, I CAN carve out a role for myself, where I can teach, write about teaching, work on civic education across the curriculum, and facilitate impactful programming for faculty. In fact, I'm going to do X and Y and Z today." By the end of the day, I'm all
Resource Share: At least once a semester, I reference or share @mirya.bsky.social, Ellen Key, and Rebecca Kreitzer's excellent annotated bibliography of research on bias in teaching evaluations. #favdev #eddev #AcademicSky
rebeccakreitzer.com/summaries-of...
rebeccakreitzer.com/summaries-of...
Summaries of Research Articles - Rebecca J. Kreitzer
Summaries of Research ArticlesThese summaries were crowdsourced and […]
rebeccakreitzer.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Resource Share: At least once a semester, I reference or share @mirya.bsky.social, Ellen Key, and Rebecca Kreitzer's excellent annotated bibliography of research on bias in teaching evaluations. #favdev #eddev #AcademicSky
rebeccakreitzer.com/summaries-of...
rebeccakreitzer.com/summaries-of...
Resource share: Georgetown's CTL developed an Inquiry and Discourse Toolkit for instructors in higher ed. It's incredibly well-researched and very thoughtful about the role of belonging, equity, and inclusion in dialogue across difference and deep inquiry into beliefs & assumptions. tiny.cc/znv4001
Cultivating Skills - Inquiry and Discourse Toolkit - CNDLS
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January 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Resource share: Georgetown's CTL developed an Inquiry and Discourse Toolkit for instructors in higher ed. It's incredibly well-researched and very thoughtful about the role of belonging, equity, and inclusion in dialogue across difference and deep inquiry into beliefs & assumptions. tiny.cc/znv4001
Loving a teenager has reduced me to arguing with an *artisan slime company's* customer support. If I buy $$$ artisan slime on 11/30 & you need 6 days (!!!) to process my order, then you should refund me when the USPS is still waiting on said slime on 12/17. Your ruining Christmas, Snoop Slimes.
December 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Loving a teenager has reduced me to arguing with an *artisan slime company's* customer support. If I buy $$$ artisan slime on 11/30 & you need 6 days (!!!) to process my order, then you should refund me when the USPS is still waiting on said slime on 12/17. Your ruining Christmas, Snoop Slimes.
ICYMI: Elizabeth Barre's academic background (and teaching experiences!) make this interview with @bonni208.bsky.social on instructor neutrality so rich and nuanced.
teachinginhighered.com/podcast/hold...
teachinginhighered.com/podcast/hold...
Holding Class While Holding Our Breath, with Betsy Barre – Teaching in Higher Ed
Betsy Barre discusses the times when we are holding our breath while holding class on episode 548 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
teachinginhighered.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
ICYMI: Elizabeth Barre's academic background (and teaching experiences!) make this interview with @bonni208.bsky.social on instructor neutrality so rich and nuanced.
teachinginhighered.com/podcast/hold...
teachinginhighered.com/podcast/hold...
We talk about how #highered instructors, unlike K-12, receive little training in pedagogy. We develop another key skill ad hoc: how to effectively & equitably lead a team of Grad Student Instructors (TAs). Here's a helpful resource by my CRLT colleagues to support this work: tiny.cc/8k51001
UMich_CRLT_Strategies for Effective Faculty-GSI Collaboration
Strategies for Effective Faculty-GSI Collaboration Invest in team development through regular contact and communication Learn about team member experiences in face to face and remote teaching contexts...
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December 13, 2024 at 3:27 PM
We talk about how #highered instructors, unlike K-12, receive little training in pedagogy. We develop another key skill ad hoc: how to effectively & equitably lead a team of Grad Student Instructors (TAs). Here's a helpful resource by my CRLT colleagues to support this work: tiny.cc/8k51001
Emily's reflection doesn’t gloss over the real challenges folks are facing with student reading/writing in #highered, but leaves space for hope. I love that she shared a specific practice that can encourage us & our students to take note of our learning progress. #academicSky #TeachLearnSky
In case you missed it: I shared some particularly vulnerable thoughts about my teaching this semester in last week's blog post: emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/fighting-t...
Fighting the End-of-Semester Blues
With some surprising takeaways from my students
emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Emily's reflection doesn’t gloss over the real challenges folks are facing with student reading/writing in #highered, but leaves space for hope. I love that she shared a specific practice that can encourage us & our students to take note of our learning progress. #academicSky #TeachLearnSky
Resource share: When I first shared this infographic on policy writing from U-M Ford School's Writing Center, it was to encourage instructors to breakaway from the traditional academic paper—policy writing is a pleasure to grade! It's improved my own writing, though, that's a bonus! tiny.cc/dz3zzz
Policy writing overview
fordschool.umich.edu
December 4, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Resource share: When I first shared this infographic on policy writing from U-M Ford School's Writing Center, it was to encourage instructors to breakaway from the traditional academic paper—policy writing is a pleasure to grade! It's improved my own writing, though, that's a bonus! tiny.cc/dz3zzz
Still pretty sure I’m not doing Bluesky right.
December 3, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Still pretty sure I’m not doing Bluesky right.
Apparently designer slime is a thing now. Kids these days. Grumble grumble. 😉
December 1, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Apparently designer slime is a thing now. Kids these days. Grumble grumble. 😉
Initial thouughts to the “babying” in the post-election piece in the @chronicle.com. I needed a few more characters than Bluesky will permit so... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Bethany N. Morrison, PhD on LinkedIn: Yes, I did read the “babying” in the post-election piece in the The…
Yes, I did read the “babying” in the post-election piece in the The Chronicle of Higher Education. A few thoughts:
1. By saying that providing structures and…
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November 15, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Initial thouughts to the “babying” in the post-election piece in the @chronicle.com. I needed a few more characters than Bluesky will permit so... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#POD24 ICYMI, UVA's Adriana Streifer & Dorothe Bach's session on Values-Driven Consultation Moves provided a thoughtful approach & useful strategies to grapple with a common challenge to #facdev / #eddev —how/when do we bring up our concerns about practices/mindsets shared with us in consultations?
November 15, 2024 at 2:38 PM
I can see the sea otters AND go to the #POD24 afternoon sessions. All I need to do is get on only double decker train going in the right direction of just two options. Easy peasy. 😳 😫
November 12, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I can see the sea otters AND go to the #POD24 afternoon sessions. All I need to do is get on only double decker train going in the right direction of just two options. Easy peasy. 😳 😫