Julie Sochacki

Director, Writing Programs: LOVE coaching & empowering new faculty, mentoring teachers & building community & belonging. Love my 3 boys❤️❤️❤️

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

@EWhitteck Check out Penn's resilience skill set--6 pillars--one of them is strengths. When i talk about this framework, I started with surfacing strengths. https://t.co/nMoj3LfEKF

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

@EWhitteck Awesome! I just emailed you and then saw this! So glad you are enjoying!

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

@drnels @EWhitteck Nels you were missed. I looked for you! Our next one is in September. Enjoy your weekend!

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

@vijisathy Viji, I was in my provost's office the other day telling her how much I would love for you to speak at our teaching and learning festival this spring. Your work inspires me to serve and support faculty in all things related to inclusive teaching! Thank you!

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

Today is day one of Dir of Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation--a 6 month deep dive into inviting, guiding, and leading conversations about inclusive teaching, including encouraging welcoming communities that cultivate belonging in our classrooms--my passion!

[Brian Aspinall @mraspinall]

Kids don't plan to come to school to get into trouble. Behaviour is a form of communication and quite often - the reason for it will make you sad, not angry.

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

@LangOnCourse The same happened to my son! And even in my course this semester: after creating norms and having discussions about effective collaboration, I had a few issues.

[Dr. Erin Whitteck @EWhitteck]

Why is so much research in education still focused on “fixing students” and not the environment. Can we please get away from this deficit based approach?

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

@LindsayMasland @katherinemsd Thank you both for this suggestion! I am the interim director of our center for teaching excellence and innovation and was just tasked with choosing the book for new faculty, and this may be the perfect choice since my focus is inclusive teaching. I appreciate this!

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

bell hooks <3

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

Congratulations to my FYS students who presented on our course Becoming More Resilient and received the award in Creative Thinking! https://t.co/S0bAOut0Og

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

Instead of asking: what do you want to be when you grow up? Ask: What problem do you want to solve?

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

The question is not how we help creative children thrive within our current system.
The question is how can we transform the system to support all children who all have the potential to be creative and authentic--discovering their individual talents and gifts.

[Julie Sochacki @profjulies]

We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools We must decrease on-the-job stress and dismantle the stressful structures we created! https://t.co/9FxPW51Y4E

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

“Teaching is about taking things apart; writing is about putting things together.” ~ Toni Morrison