Friday is an Administrative Day! - Law School Academic Support Blog

Over the years, I have heard several colleagues describe Friday as their administrative day. I found this fascinating because I never seemed to have time for one. I was the sole member of an office th...

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Abridged Law School ABCs: “C” is for Counter-arguments and Conclusions - Law School Academic Support Blog

Being able to answer the call of the question, spot the issues, recall the relevant legal principles, and remember key phrases is a genuine victory. However, your analysis or application is incomplete...

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Who Gets to Be an Expert? Helping Students See Expertise as Something They Can Develop - Law School Academic Support Blog

There is a particular moment in law school when a student realizes that someone else seems to know everything. The professor asks a question, and another student immediately answers. Or a classmate ca...

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Novice to Navigator: Unlearn and Relearn How to Learn - Law School Academic Support Blog

As a first-year law student, you are excited about the new opportunities to learn the law so you can achieve your aspirations of becoming a lawyer. However, the journey may be a little bumpy. We expec...

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Abridged Law School ABCs: “B” is for Bar Exam Application - Law School Academic Support Blog

Welcome to the law school experience. Although you are still adjusting to the law school environment and its expectations, we need to discuss the bar exam. Bar preparation may seem premature for a new...

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Music to my Ears: Class Playlists for Introductions - Law School Academic Support Blog

Anyone that has been to a college or professional sport game should be able to tell you at least one song that perked up their ears. Some teams even have their own music traditions …cue “Sweet Carolin...

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Novice to Navigator: Put Yourself in Another Person’s Shoes - Law School Academic Support Blog

If you are a first-year or a transfer law student and are one month in or even a week into your law school journey, you have experienced a great deal in a short amount of time. You may have moved to a...

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Abridged Law School ABCs: “A” is for Application/Analysis - Law School Academic Support Blog

By this state in your legal education, you have encountered the terms “legal application” and/or “legal analysis” which are often used interchangeably. In essence, this refers to the process of examin...

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Starting Somewhere: Three Lessons So Far - Law School Academic Support Blog

Hello, my name is Kiana Wilson, and this is my first blog post as a contributing editor. Let me start by saying that I have been in the academic success world for almost two years, and I've been out o...

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First Principles on Meeting Schedulers - Law School Academic Support Blog

A confluence of technological updates provided the fodder for this week’s post on meeting schedulers, or, to use the more formal term for them, appointment scheduling software. My annual Calendly rene...

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Scaffolding Socratic Dialogue - Law School Academic Support Blog

Susannah Pollvogt expresses that law schools rarely teach students how to actually participate in Socratic dialogue, even though professors expect this skill thus leaving many 1Ls anxious and inadequa...

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From Intervention to Prevention - Law School Academic Support Blog

Academic support often arrives at the moment when something has gone wrong. Maybe it’s a student receiving a disappointing midterm grade. Perhaps a student realizes they are spending hours studying bu...

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New Contributing Editor – Kiana Wilson - Law School Academic Support Blog

Please welcome our new Contributing Editor, Kiana Wilson. She will post her thoughts every other Tuesday. Kiana Wilson is the Assistant Director of Law School Academic Support at the University of Ala...

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Happy Labor Day - Law School Academic Support Blog

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Labor Day is “an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.” It also notes that the holiday is “rooted in the push to re...

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Reaching for Success: Strategies to Support the Adult Learners in your Classrooms - Law School Academic Support Blog

As financial aid restrictions take hold and economic downturns result in job loss, the likelihood that your class roster includes more than a few adult learners increases. In today’s post, I define an...

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Attribution, Do You Do It? - Law School Academic Support Blog

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “attribution” in multiple ways but the key ones I would like to focus on here are: “the act of attributing something” or “an ascribed quality, character, or right.” ...

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The Learning Curve - Law School Academic Support Blog

Did you know that the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Academic Support has a publication, The Learning Curve? If you did not, this is your opportunity to read and explore. Click ...

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Thank you Erica! - Law School Academic Support Blog

Many thanks to Erica Lux for her dedication as a Contributing Editor for the Law School Academic Support Blog! Erica's posts have been thoughtful, insightful, and vulnerable. Thank you, Erica, for exp...

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New Energy, and the Boundaries to Contain It - Law School Academic Support Blog

This week, I welcomed my 3L students into my online section of our MEE/MPT class. It doesn’t matter how long I’ve done this. (But if you’re counting, this fall begins year 17 of full-time ASP teaching...

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Scholarship Matters: Why Academic Support Professionals Should Share What We Learn - Law School Academic Support Blog

Academic Support professionals are constantly learning. We learn from our students. We learn from data. We learn from failed workshops and successful interventions. We learn from conversations with co...

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The Legal Community Works Better with Us - Law School Academic Support Blog

Keeping in line with this year’s Disability Pride month theme, “The World Works Better with Us,” let’s talk about how we can grow inclusion, belonging, and support for our disabled law students—as wel...

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The Difference Between Academic Support and Academic Rescue - Law School Academic Support Blog

Every Academic Support professional has experienced it. A student arrives just days before finals with weeks of reading unfinished. Another wants someone to tell them exactly what to study. A third as...

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Designing Academic Support for Students Who Don’t Think They Need It - Law School Academic Support Blog

One of the most frustrating things about being in academic support is that the students who could benefit the most from our services aren’t usually the ones who walk through the door. As a result, man...

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Bridging Students, Faculty, Administrators, and the Bar - Law School Academic Support Blog

Academic support often occupies an unusual position within law schools. We work directly with students, but we also work with faculty and administration. We think about individual learning challenges,...

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Teaching Students to Think Like Coaches, Not Critics – Law School Academic Support Blog

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Teaching Adaptability as a Core Legal Skill – Law School Academic Support Blog

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What Do I Do After AASE? – Law School Academic Support Blog

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Helping Students Understand the Role of Analogy in Legal Reasoning – Law School Academic Support Blog

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