Teaching On The Pulse
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Teaching On The Pulse
About Lynne
Hello! As Director of the Wabash Center, I celebrate the opportunity to express myself through writing. I am a scholar who wants my work on pedagogy to be accessible to a wide gamut of readers and colleagues. My blog column for the Wabash Center, entitled “Teaching on the Pulse,” is meant to engage colleagues in the craft of teaching and to assist during the challenging seasons of the teaching life. The stories I tell, the politics I engage, the poetic prose I offer, is meant to inspire, provide humor, and insight. I hope you find, in my writing, a little bit of encouragement. I believe that, with intent and hard work, teaching can be improved. I hope my blog conversation assists you with improving your understanding and practice of teaching.
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Build, Compose, Make
Blog Series: Teaching On The Pulse
September 01, 2025
Tags: art and teaching | Classroom | Create | build
Below is the jargon which has pervaded our conversation. I call this the “re-” lexicon: re-design re-invent re-arrange re-imagine re-create re-think re-conceive re-examine re-vision re-consider re-work re-cover The call to “re-” the system of education has been in response to shrinking student pools, dwindling tenure-track positions, collapsing denominational structures, tightening ...
Emotional Labor in Teaching
Blog Series: Teaching On The Pulse
August 01, 2025
Tags: self care | Ritual | grounding | teaching on the pulse | emotional labor | burnout
If I have learned anything in this life of teaching, it is this: the emotional labor of teaching is genuine. Routinely, class sessions left me exhausted. After most sessions I would need to sit in silence for an hour to regain my energies or have a meal to replenish my ...
Agency: Onward Through the Fog!
Blog Series: Teaching On The Pulse
July 01, 2025
Tags: institutional change | academic leadership | adaptive teaching | transformative pedagogy | classroom innovation | educational crisis | teacher empowerment | faculty mentorship | imagination in teaching | educational reform | resilient leadership | teaching for the future | navigating change in education | academic responsibility
The task is impossible, yet ours to accomplish. Our students need us to shape our classrooms for a future we cannot foresee or anticipate. In the courses we design, our students need us to hone their voices, imaginations, and problem-solving abilities for a future that is unmappable yet will require ...
Permission Giving
Blog Series: Teaching On The Pulse
June 01, 2025
Tags: teaching theology | academic freedom | teaching and healing | faculty empowerment | educational transformation | permission to rest | pedagogy and liberation | faculty wellbeing | work life balance in academia | higher education culture | resisting grind culture
The Wabash Center teaches toward freedom in hopes of liberation and healing. We have learned that acts of freedom occur in many forms, and occasionally involve receiving permission. Since 2019, I have had the honor of reading the feedback forms completed by participants at the end of events and programming experiences. ...
Fear Will Make You Hurt Yourself
Blog Series: Teaching On The Pulse
May 01, 2025
Tags: critical thinking | courageous teaching | leadership in crisis | higher education challenges | fear and silence
Fear is the anxiety that you are about to lose something you love, need, have rightfully earned or deserve. Fear will make you hurt yourself, silence yourself, edit yourself in ways that contradict or disavow your own best pursuits. Since we teach who we are, showing up afraid will only ...