Teaching in Higher Ed
Unpacking Resilience & Grief
Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People are grieving and hurting.
-Chinasa Elue
Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now.
-Chinasa Elue
Language is power.
-Laura Howard
We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve.
-Chinasa Elue
Educational developers are caregivers.
-Este Jordan
The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity.
-Chinasa Elue
People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard.
-Chinasa Elue
We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces.
-Chinasa Elue
It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.
-Chinasa Elue
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