Media + Correctional Programming = WIN!
What are the challenges and benefits to inviting media inside your institution or campus to see and report on the great work you’re doing? This post takes a look and offers some insight into getting our work out to the rest of the world.
Are You Open to Feedback?
Learning how to give and receive feedback is a critical tool in any great leader’s tool kit.
From Burned Out to Fired Up: Sleep
Lack of sleep is one component of burn out. Let’s look at why and how we can get what we need to be our healthiest selves.
Giving Students Choices (even incarcerated ones)
Choice menus are an excellent way to give learners and staff agency over their learning. Used in a behavioral modification framework, they can also motivate learners (students and staff) by incentivizing pro-social behaviors. Working in a jail, prison, detention center, or other alternative setting? Choice menus work wonders!
What about Project Based Learning?
Can you safely use Project Based Learning in a carceral classroom with incarcerated students? Absolutely!
Going Inside Out
This week, Sunday Morning Coffee discusses The National Inside Out Prison Exchange Program, an innovative method of bringing college to incarcerated students to learn alongside main campus students.
Beginner’s Guide to Sunday Morning Coffee
Musings, ideas, ideals, IRL problem-solving, and of course, coffee. Join me each Sunday morning.