Open Education Resources & Blog for Educators in Urban Studies & Social Science
Experiences and resources informed by over a decade of teaching and learning in public higher education in New York City.
Are students attending the lectures and paying attention? Is there a way to encourage accountability among my students? How can I offer extra credit that doesn’t drastically increase my workload? To address these questions, I created the Bonus Quiz. It’s…
Keep reading…College classrooms are spaces to build community, but community is more than a collection of students sharing in an experience. True classroom community engenders a shared sense of accountability which is best expressed through moments when we learn from and…
Keep reading…I have yet to teach a course without one or more students handing in a late weekly assignment or asking for an extension. And this will continue to happen because students are human beings and as such will make mistakes,…
Keep reading…WELCOME I am an environmental psychologist, educator, and independent critical scholar living and working in New York City. This is a space to organize and share ideas, practices, and materials I’ve created or curated while teaching in Urban Studies at Queens College and completing an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Environmental Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
On this site you will find:
Educators and learners with an interest in urban housing, political economy and neoliberal critiques, critical race, class, and gender studies, Marxian frameworks, and environmental psychology may find this site useful.
This is a work-in-progress done in my spare time and a labor of love. Please bear with me as I build out the OER and add new content.
THANK YOU for visiting.
