Month: April 2021

Mets piling up wins by playing old-school gritty baseball

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You’re telling me that Buck Showalter couldn’t get back into a major league dugout for three years because teams’ owners and new-age front office personnel thought the old school manager would demand too much authority?

Oh, my goodness gracious.

The culture shift in Queens has been as dramatic as the turnaround in the Mets’ record from 77-85 in 2021 to 69-39 (and counting) this year, following their 8-5, 6-2 doubleheader sweep of the Braves on Saturday that extended their division lead to 5 games … and with Jacob deGrom on tap Sunday for the finale of this five-game set, in which the home team has taken three of the first four.

Last year, fans and players were making thumbs-down gestures at one another. This year, there is mutual love flowing from the stands to the field and back again, with the Mets 30 games over .500 for the first time

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US House Votes To Block Key Education Rule

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Five Things to Do During the Grumpy Time of the Semester

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If you have taught before, then you are familiar with the grumpy time of the semester. This is when the semester starts to feel long. It is usually about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through the semester when we (and our students) start to feel a little grumpier. We believe there is value in acknowledging this eventuality, naming it, and then proactively and intentionally devising plans for what to do when we get into the grumpy time of the semester. Generally speaking, we advocate for the infusion of empathy (one’s ability to take on the cognitive and emotional perspective of others; e.g., Elliot et al., 2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., 2022 for a discussion of the empathetic course design perspective). This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. We work hard to proactively and intentionally

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