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Learning should be an adventure—one that challenges, inspires, and transforms.

Whether you're an educator or leader, our programs will move you!

03/03/2026

This feels a bit vulnerable to post.

I lost my voice for two weeks. Completely. Not even a squeak. Just email, text, and a lot of silence.

It’s slowly coming back - but not fully - so I took a bit of a risk. This video uses AI to carry my words.

We’re stepping into Chapter 2 of my book, Educative Encounters: The Classroom CARE Model in Higher Education.

And here’s the tension.

This chapter defines educative encounters - those moments in teaching shaped by human presence, relationship, and the quality of how we meet one another.

Using AI to speak about relational pedagogy feels… ironic.

But teaching right now holds that same tension. Technology is here. So are we. How we meet and how we ensure learning is happening is the heart of the matter.

Have a listen to my ideas, and my non-voice.

02/04/2026

If you’re new here, welcome.
I’m spending this year walking through the ideas in my book Educative Encounters - one short reflection at a time.

This week’s focus is Nel Noddings’ care theory. One idea that keeps tugging at me:
care not received as care isn’t care at all. And care is something we enact through relationship not a character trait we possess.

For educators, this shifts the work. It’s not about good intentions. It’s about noticing how our teaching is experienced and adjusting our practice accordingly.

My invitation this week: notice one small moment where care shows up in your classroom or work. Was it felt? How do you know?

01/22/2026

Teaching isn’t fixed.

Learning about epistemology helped me see teaching as a practice, something we can keep growing in over time.

01/05/2026

An invitation to begin.

This video opens a year-long walk through Carrie Nolan's book, Educative Encounters. This is meant to be a reflective conversation about what actually stays with learners, and with us, in teaching and leadership.

Educative Encounters is available through our website or on Amazon if you’d like to read along.

07/23/2025

Teach in ways that matter. Together.

Join the Educative Encounters Community of Practice - a book-club-style space for faculty to reflect, connect, and bring CARE into their classrooms.

📘 Based on the book Educative Encounters
💻 Online & facilitated by author Carrie Nolan
🗓 Meets monthly, Sept–April
💸 Just $75 for the full series, book included

Whether you’ve read the book or are just getting curious- this is your invitation.
Let’s move from page to practice, together.

👉 Register now: https://www.advened.com/workshopsandretreats

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