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2022 · Virtual

Compassionate or Cruel? Configuring Zones of Optimism

Session OD.73

Area: First-Year Writing · family: First-year composition

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Speakers Patrick Clauss University of Notre Dame → University of Notre Dame What Really Matters: Load-Bearing Walls in the Writing Classroom
Speakers Erin McLaughlin University of Notre Dame → University of Notre Dame Toward an Embodied Pedagogy of (Un)Belonging in the Post-Pandemic Classroom
Speakers Nathaniel Myers University of Notre Dame → University of Notre Dame Untethering Ungrading from the Improvement Imperative
Speakers Jessica Shumake University of Notre Dame → University of Notre Dame Cultivating Zones of Optimism in the Online Writing Classroom in a Global Pandemic

Source

NCTE's program, near page 30 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Compassionate or Cruel? Configuring Zones of Optimism.” 2022 Convention Program, Virtual, session OD.73. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 3, 2026.