Building Engaged Classrooms: Insights from Dr. Clare Forstie on Inclusive Practices

In this episode, Dan and Lauren talk with Dr. Clare Forstie, an Education Program Specialist. She provides programming and consulting, with a particular interest in inclusive teaching principles and practices at the University of Minnesota. They discuss creating or joining faculty communities of practice, fostering engagement in the classroom, and balancing flexibility with structure in teaching spaces.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

• Teaching to Transgress (to learn more about classes as communities)
• All About Love (to learn more about connecting care with action for change)
• CJ Pascoe's book: Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High
• Creating Significant Learning Experiences with Dr. Dee Fink
• Subscribe to the POD Network Open Discussion Group at discussion@podnetwork.org 
• Heather Dubrow, English professor at Fordham University, who described a teaching practice involving students' reflections on each others' contributions in class. It was highlighted in this Chronicle teaching newsletter ----more----