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Covid 19 Reflections

Fostering Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty: Taking the Digital Storytelling Internship Virtual

Fostering Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty: Taking the Digital Storytelling Internship Virtual

By Matthew Decker, Assistant Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Digital Storytelling Internship, with Jamie Gillan, Associate Professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Digital Storytelling Internship, Montgomery College For many Montgomery College community members, March 2020 was a stressful time. Faculty and students learned they would not be returning to their physical classrooms, and […]

A Sense of Normalcy in a Difficult Time: A Renewed Spirit of Collaboration Provides Virtual Academic Support at Montgomery College

A Sense of Normalcy in a Difficult Time: A Renewed Spirit of Collaboration Provides Virtual Academic Support at Montgomery College

By Dr. Lucinda Grinnell, Acting Manager WRLC, Rockville , Tanya Camp, Manager WRLC, Takoma Park/Silver Spring , Dr. Elysse Meredith, Manager WRLC, Germantown , Dr. Elizabeth Benton, Professor of English, Rockville When COVID-19 forced a shift to emergency remote learning, our team of learning center managers utilized every second of those first couple of weeks to evaluate and […]

Turning to Each Other: Reflections on Teaching and Collaborating during the Pandemic of 2020

Turning to Each Other: Reflections on Teaching and Collaborating during the Pandemic of 2020

By Dr. Elizabeth Benton, Professor of English, Montgomery College Continued and disruptive turbulence[1] in COVID-19’s path demands educational change in higher education. This commentary reflects my vantage point experiencing educational change in three teaching situations: full-time teaching and faculty leadership at a community college; teaching one evening a week at the university level; and teaching […]

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- “The Flap of a Butterfly Wing”: From Incarceration to College Access
  By Sharon Anthony, Elizabeth Benton, Schai Schairer, Jarvis Slacks In August 2021, then-president of Montgomery College, Dr. DeRionne Pollard recommended that several deans meet with Ms. Schai Schairer, a graduate of Montgomery College who had started a nonprofit organization that focused on working with incarcerated women at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women (MCIW). By […]
- Math and Art in Islamic Geometric Patterns: Creating and Teaching in Collaboration
  By Rebin Muhammad, Ph.D. In first grade when I was in Iraq, I took my first art class. Given that my parents weren’t well-educated, and my dad was embroiled in the Iran-Iraq war, art had never been a part of our home life. I do not recall that we ever had colored pencils while I […]
- With Time to Listen, a Montgomery College Professor Finds New Voice
  By Esther Schwartz-McKinzie, Ph.D. I offer this advice for my colleagues who are eligible to apply for a sabbatical project at Montgomery College but have not done so yet: Ask yourself where you need to grow and do it. Sabbaticals create opportunities for personal expansion and self-challenge that are unique among the professions. I have […]
- Some Departing Thoughts: On the Privilege and Responsibility of Inclusive Teaching
  By Professor Tuere Marshall, Professor of English, retired As I retire this summer from my faculty position in the English department, reflections on my teaching career are flooding in. The seed for teaching was first planted during those twelve years of my early education when my teachers up through high school were nuns of the […]
- “Foster My Skill Set as a Faculty Member of Color: Faculty Representation at Community College”
  By Dr. Elizabeth Benton, Acting Dean of English and Reading, Dr. Rodney Redmond, Interim Provost, College of Southern Maryland, Professor Jarvis Slacks, Program Manager, Professor Ellwood Johnson, McMFI Intern, Professor Jermaine Jones, McMFI Intern, and Professor William Martin, McMFI Intern In 2018, the Montgomery College English and Reading Area established an internship to increase the […]
- Robert L. Giron
  I'm happy to have been a part of this project [...]
- Elizabeth Benton
  This book and article are critical at this time in [...]
- Deborah A Dessaso
  Bravo! Ms. Marshall's farewell column expertly combines memories with [...]
- Beverly Stryker
  I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article. So well said [...]
- Tuere Marshall
  The article is timely, relevant, showing profound insight. Thanks so [...]

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