Building Team Cohesiveness

Today’s post is on an aspect of forensics we often take for granted (if we’re lucky).  Team cohesiveness often happens naturally on forensics squads.  After all, they have a common interest built in and they are forced to spend long hours together in vans, hotel rooms and small classrooms.  But, it never hurts to insure [...]

Happy National Constitution Day!

Today is National Constitution Day.  As educators of advocacy and civic engagement, today offers us a reason to celebrate and to remind our students of the importance in being able to vocalize the importance of the principles protected in this document, as well as being willing and able to take advantage of the opportunities this [...]

Debate Collectives – West Coast Style

Well, I’ve still been unable to get on a “blogging schedule”.  But, hopefully this week, my life will settle down and my schedule will become somewhat more “regular”.  I did want to write a post about a great experience for me and my students last week.  Diablo Valley College (Becky Opsata, Director and Libby Simas, [...]