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Download our NEW ebook for professor-recommended strategies to effectively teach using AI:

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In the latest episode of Higher Listenings, author Susan Hrach reveals how movement, sensation, and physical space can transform the classroom experience.

🎧 Listen to Is Learning a Full-Body Experience? now: https://t.co/ukZMiOrOym

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We've spent generations designing classrooms around the idea that learning happens primarily between our ears. But what if we've been overlooking the rest of the human body?

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In our latest Higher Listenings, Dr. Susan Blum challenges us to rethink some of the structures we take for granted—and consider what might happen if we designed less around “doing school” and more around learning itself. Listen now: https://t.co/RowOE2dqbj

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Grades. Requirements. Deadlines. Getting the right answer. Checking the right boxes.

They’re such familiar parts of higher education that we rarely stop to ask a more fundamental question: are they actually helping students learn in meaningful ways?

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Meet the 2026 Shannen’s Dream Scholarship recipients! 🎓 In partnership with the @FNcaringsociety, Top Hat is proud to provide $20K in financial support to First Nations students evoking change through education, advocacy + community leadership. https://t.co/ifqQSgQEQb

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Looking for your next great read this summer? ☀️📚
Top Hat’s 2026 Summer Reading List is packed with our top books and podcasts from brilliant educators including Flower Darby, Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Susan Blum and more.

Read now: https://t.co/0cojeOJ3r2

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AI is changing learning—shouldn’t assessment change too?

Join Dr. Susan Blum (author of "Ungrading") for a live webinar on April 30 to explore fresh, alternative approaches that boost student engagement and deepen learning. Sign up: https://t.co/EekTybgBqE

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Reading isn’t just about keeping up with coursework—it might be one of the last places students can actually slow down and think.

James Lang (author of "Small Teaching") reframes reading not as a requirement—but as a gift—in our latest podcast episode.

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Are traditional grades still serving learning—or holding it back?

Join us for “Alternative Assessment or the End of Learning,” with Dr. Susan D. Blum, author of "Ungrading." We’ll explore how instructors are rethinking assessments in the age of AI.🧠 https://t.co/C2O6nbvWeq

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AI isn’t the end of assignments—it’s a chance to make them better. ✨

In this video, Dr. Jessa Roisen at St. Ambrose University shares ready-to-use AI assignment ideas that spark deeper thinking, engagement and meaningful learning in any classroom.

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Because in an AI-infused world, what matters most aren’t just answers—but adaptable, conscientious thinkers who ask better questions.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/Cy9VXX0Lki

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Education was built to deliver information. The future demands something more.

This week, Tawnya Means joins us explores the need to design learning that develops human potential, deepens thinking, and uses AI as a partner in discovery.

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Attention, motivation, memory—psychology shapes how students learn.

At @McMasterSocSci, Michelle Cadieux turned that into a 90% attendance rate with the help of Top Hat.

See how: https://t.co/MmtbhtfUHN

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Bestselling author Zach Mercurio ("The Power of Mattering") shares practical, research-backed ways to help people feel seen, valued, and needed.

RSVP now: https://t.co/Cy9VXX0Lki

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Are you teaching students, leading a team, or working alongside colleagues? This conversation will change how you show up. Because the real issue isn’t apathy or disengagement—it’s the feeling of insignificance.

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AI is reshaping education—but engagement is still everything.

Join us on March 26 at 2 PM ET for a live webinar with Dr. Jessa Roisen (St. Ambrose University) and Clare Castro (Top Hat) on "Engaging Hearts & Minds in the Age of AI." RSVP here: https://t.co/9u4K4YdVZr

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Drawing on positive psychology and the science of human flourishing, Flower makes a compelling case: when instructors thrive, students do too.

Listen now: https://t.co/zLO3VHCnDJ

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We’re thrilled to welcome Flower Darby back to Higher Listenings to discuss her new book "The Joyful Online Teacher" — and the radical idea that joy belongs at the center of serious teaching.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/zLO3VHCnDJ

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On March 5 at 2 PM ET, Top Hat and Wiley are hosting a virtual event: “Designing Learning Experiences Students Want.” Get practical strategies to encourage curiosity without pressure and extend engagement using trusted Wiley content in Top Hat. RSVP now: https://t.co/W2Tn4GAhzO

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Are students physically present—but mentally checked out? The difference between attendance and true engagement often comes down to the affective side of learning—where curiosity, connection and cognitive rigor meet.