For a student with anxiety, many commonly used classroom procedures trigger the fight, flight, or freeze trauma responses.

As I teach college-level or community courses, I prefer commitments / covenants rather than traditional do / do not rules. Rather than only

When a teacher presents pre-determined rules for the classroom, they are establishing themselves as the authority in the classroom.

A positive language learning environment designed with hands-on-learning, freedom to try and fail, authentic assessments, community connect

Many common teaching practices are not anxiety-friendly (e.g. pop quizzes, true/false exam questions, heavily-weighted group projects, high

Barriers that are often overlooked or dismissed are invisible emotional challenges such as anxiety. One reason for not recognizing or...

Many teachers give surprise pop quizzes. These exams trigger fight, flight, or freeze emotional responses in students; they inhibit even the

My first priority is to create a safe learning environment for my students where they can learn in ways conducive to their neurodiversity, t

"To move our school structures into more open, fluid, and correspondingly inventive forms, we need new forms, not reform” (Jacobs, 2010)....

As I mentioned in my last post, I do not ascribe to any educational philosophy in particular but my personal philosophy has humanist,...