Allison Levine

Understand and acknowledge for yourself and your students that living through a pandemic is not "normal" and thus, feeling increased anxiety is completely understandable.

I have been teaching online and using online supplements in my teaching for 5 years now. In fact, I have the privilege of working in the first online rehabilitation counselor education program in the country.

The ways in which politicians and leaders in our country talk about obtaining a job is as though someone comes around waving a wand and under their reform, if you want a job, you get a job (used a lot of restraint to not include an Oprah meme here).

The last week of the semester is always full of chaos. Students are running around trying to calculate minimum passing scores, and faculty are regretting assigning holistic final exams instead of easily graded multiple-choice exams. It’s a time when most faculty are repeating the same jokes to one another about “another tough semester”, and students are huddled over their laptops on every inch of campus in their sweats.

Have you heard of this term before? Likely not. I’ve not found a unified definition of it, but suffice it to say, inspiration porn is the objectification of people with disability via the representation of people with disabilities as being infinitely inspirational.