Volume 4, 2025
Welcome! In Deeper Learning Journal of Practice (DLJP) Volume 4 you are presented with engaging articles, filled with the authors’ strategies to promote deeper learning. Rabina Baksh-Bissessar discusses what she provides to help create a positive classroom culture. Many of us observe that our students do not pay attention to our feedback and Breana Bayraktar details how she has fostered students’ involvement with reading and responding to her guidance. Tove Rasmussen recounts her first implementation of project-based learning, and how she will enhance the implementation in future semesters.
When Martin P. Smith’s students learn about historiography, the study of how history is written and interpreted, they realize how the history of Black people in the United States is portrayed gives insufficient attention to a powerfully, positive Black history event. Donna Vinton spotlights strategies she has used to support her graduate students in overcoming their difficulty in articulating their reflections. Ivan A. Shibley Jr and David J. Aurentz provide an array of strategies to foster organic chemistry content learning and which, together, also strengthen students’ metacognition. Shaundria L. Gibson discusses a tool she devised to organize various special accommodations students require for equal access. Ann H. Aust reviews Mindset for Success: The Powerful Partnership of Problem-Based Learning & PLC at Work by Terry Goodin and Heather Dillard, a book she has found to be an invaluable resource.
Please note that strategies used at specific grade levels will duplicate, inspire, or adapt well for the students or faculty, with which you work; and DLJP is delighted that two Volume 4 authors discuss their work with students and teachers at grade levels, other than college or graduate programs. In addition to the Journal’s dedicated, talented authors, I applaud Volume 4 Editorial Board members, whose diligent work has been instrumental to the strong quality of DLJP’s articles.
Enjoy Deeper Learning Journal of Practice, Vol. 4!
Lee Anna Stirling
Editor-in-Chief