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Cultivating capacity with a mentoring guild: Constellations continued Open

Tracy W. Smith, Jennifer Luetkemeyer, Rachel Wilson, Aftynne E. Cheek, Denise Brewer · 2022

This article describes the rationale, development process, and initial activities and outcomes of a faculty mentoring guild that engages experienced faculty volunteers in supporting their near peers in navigating their teaching, research, …

Constellations of Support: A Community Development Model Open

Tracy W. Smith, Melba Spooner · 2021

This article describes the rationale, development process, and initial artifacts and outcomes of a faculty support (a.k.a. mentoring) model developed for a specific academic context: a College of Education at a Southeastern comprehensive p…

The Diffusion of Faculty Development: A Faculty Fellows Program Open

Tracy W. Smith, Sara J. Greenwald, Lillian Nave, Victor N. Mansure, Michael J. Howell · 2020

This critical retrospective review describes the ideation, creation, and implementation of a faculty development fellows program at a regional comprehensive university.The authors share their perspectives as fellows regarding primary consi…

Wiser Together: Sustaining Teaching Excellence With a Self-Study/Critical Friend Open

Tracy W. Smith, Leslie Bradbury · 2019

This article examines the development of a self-study/critical friend (SSCF) model of educational development . The SSCF model provides benefits for the self-study teacher in the form of personalized, sustained support . The critical frien…

Using Students’ Perceptions of Online Teaching and Learning to Inform Faculty Development Open

Tracy W. Smith, Emory Maiden, Mona Abinader · 2019

The purpose of this study was to collect students’ perceptions of their online courses and learning experiences at a single, comprehensive university and to examine how those perceptions could be used to inform faculty development approach…

Wiser Together: Sustaining Teaching Excellence With a Self–Study/Critical Friend Open

Tracy W. Smith, Leslie Bradbury · 2019

Invitations and Expeditions, but Hardly Ever Destinations Open

Tracy W. Smith · 2018

This essay characterizes educational development as an invitation. The author provides a rationale for using Invitational Theory (IT) to guide educational development programming and practice. The five assumptions of IT are included and li…

Invitations and Expeditions, but Hardly Ever Destinations Open

Tracy W. Smith · 2018

Living, loving, and leading in the wild and dazzling middle grades: An open letter to prospective and newer middle grades teachers Open

Tracy W. Smith · 2017

Examining the Retention of African American Males in Ninth Grade as a Roadblock to Graduation: Charting Student Perceptions Open

Tracy W. Smith · 2015

In the United States, more students are being retained in the ninth grade than in any other year in their K-12 school experience (Blackwell, 2008). In addition, African American males are retained more than any other group (Morrison, 2014)…

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