Gillian Galle, Sarah Chambers, and I started this blog as a website for the Castleton Center for Teaching and Learning at the start of the pandemic. Our hope was to use it for all of the various helpful communications that had to go out to faculty and eventually transition it to become a resource site when things settled down. It seems like ever since then the situation has been changing, with unexpected challenges presenting themselves at a regular pace. We adjusted to keep up. As did opportunities, and so we expanded the purpose to remind us that everyone who works at Castleton is an educator and highlight their good work when we could. With the new VTSU Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation set to start up in July, we are beginning to take down the shingle for Castleton’s CTL. All good things, as they say. We aren’t sure what will happen with The Educator, but it may still have a life telling stories about Castleton educators. We will have to wait and see what changes the summer brings!
This issue follows some of our favorite themes.
Maybe you heard the news that Castleton’s Campus Activities Board won a national award. This is due to the hard work of its student leaders, including student Adsel Sparrow, and the mentoring of Associate Dean of Students Matt Patry and Assistant Director of Student Activities James Wolfe who is profiled in this issue.
In a previous issue we learned about the hopes and dreams of Castleton educators. This issue follows that idea to consider how faculty can create course goals that lead toward those big dreams.
Finally, in the tradition of important communications, we include a copy of Associate Dean of Students (and eCampus liaison to Castleton) recent email about the new bookseller coming to campus.
