As part of CUAHSI's 25th anniversary, we're featuring a series of reflections from some of the people who have helped shape CUAHSI’s story over the years. Our first contributor is Rick Hooper, CUAHSIs ED from 2002-2017. A Challenge for Today’s Hydrologic Scientists www.cuahsi.org/community/ne...

Two and a half exciting updates to my hydroinformatics book (or: data science and hydrology?) 1. The materials all use the updated USGS dataRetrieval package now, yay! Www.hydroinformaticsbook.com More below

@hydrochrista.bsky.social @domciruzzi.bsky.social, and I asked hydrologists across the country for their syllabi so we could investigate how instructors were teaching hydrology courses and think about the future... Here’s what we found + suggestions agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Current State of Undergraduate Hydrology Courses in North America: A Path Forward

Examined syllabi for introductory courses in hydrology The titles, topics, and approaches to assessment varied widely across courses Found limited consensus in how hydrology courses are taught a...

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Can I get students to read... something?? In which I may be setting myself up for scheduling hell at the end of the semester and/or a failed experiment in new ways to engage with my students... open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Can I get students to read... something?

The war for attention is real, can extra credit power help?

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Better late than never... fall 2025 course meme competition highlights: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Course memes return!

Students bring the heat in meme competition.

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When reflecting on my student course evaluations after this semester, I thought discussion of some comments that frequently pop up might be helpful! Featuring Liz Lemon and Gandalf. open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

What student comments have taught me about good teaching.

You don't need any magical special sauce...

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What grad students found useful in a course about teaching… open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

What graduate students learned in a teaching class

Three semesters of reflections say...

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This week's two posts are about Connecting concepts and Practicing. Can you guess what Ron Swanson gif I managed to fit (maybe) into one of them? thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

Thinking Through Teaching | JP Gannon | Substack

Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

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This week in my college teaching class we talked about Retrieval Practice and Interleaving! I wrote about our discussions! thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com

Thinking Through Teaching | JP Gannon | Substack

Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

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Yesterday in my college teaching class we discussed predicting as a learning strategy. Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class? open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Teaching about... Prediction

Prediction as a learning enhancer

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A discussion about exams, wherein a student compares teaching well to making a movie, and I don't disagree. open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Teaching about... Exams!

No one ever has opinions about exams.

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From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices! open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Teaching about... Assignments etc

The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon

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What students* think about quizzes, lectures, learning styles, laptop bans, which teaching strategies are active, which are effective... *my small graduate "how to teach college" class thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...

Graduate Teaching Class: Teaching Methods

What is active learning? What is effective teaching?

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Writing through my teaching class: A discussion broadly about curricular type things wherein I remember a nasty teaching eval comment from 10 years ago. open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

Curriculum type things

Discussions about curricular strategies and more from a class on teaching college

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The save icon continues to be an interesting indicator of changing computer literacy/practices: Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk. TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all! We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?

This semester, I'm going to write about what we discuss in my college teaching class. The first 2 weeks have been a doozy, but I managed to get some stuff down! On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...

Graduate Teaching Class: Week 1 & 2

Writing my way through teaching a class on teaching

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Teach hydro modeling? Want to introduce modeling in an intro class? Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own).. Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software! dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool

We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...

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I spoke at our college graduation and told graduates 4 things. In retrospect those things are pretty related to teaching, so I posted them here: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...

What I told graduates

Four things...

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Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...

Code in Class: All of the topics

Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.

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❤️

Christa Kelleher@hydrochrista.bsky.social · last yr.

.. and if you are teaching about hydrologic modeling and need a smooth on-ramp, highly recommend @jpgannon.bsky.social HBV model: cuahsi.shinyapps.io/HBV-model/ Before working with other platforms, we had a calibration competition - prizes given for best AND worst NSE for different watersheds!

This week's teaching post: students teaching students thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/students-t...

Students teaching students

Peer teaching is powerful!

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Highly recommend. This is one of the books we work through in my College Teaching class and really helped me develop my own teaching philosophy.

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's the book! It's been adopted by a bunch of departments for new grad students and is all about infusing mutual respect into the fundamentals of how we run our classrooms. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course. thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/integratin...

Integrating coding into an existing class

How I teach students to code along with disciplinary material

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This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...

Assessment and Retrieval Practice in a Code-Heavy Class

Some ideas for assessments that help students learn

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CUAHSI is happy to share our 2024 Annual Report! New this year, we’ve added a Research Highlights section capturing much of what we do to support and engage with the community. We hope the report is informative and is a positive point of reflection. www.cuahsi.org/uploads/libr...

This weeks' post about live coding: how to talk. "I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end." thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...

How to talk while live coding

normalizing errors, growth mindset, stereotype threat....

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Our April e-Newsletter is out and it is loaded with content and announcements including new funding opportunities, a new workshop, a new cyberseminar and much more! us3.campaign-archive.com?u=aad7e9257f...

This week's writing about Live Coding: This week I’m writing about nuts and bolts. How do I get students the code, what do we do in class, how do you like… do it. thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...

Live Coding: Making it Happen

setting up to run a class

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One of my classes went so poorly today (endless tech issues, mostly) that one of my students emailed to say I’m doing a great job 😂 Simultaneously thoughts of “students are great” and “wow yes that really was bad”

This week's teaching post: How I set up for live-coding in class. "I think of my strategies for live coding as strategies to keep from giving students reasons to disengage. " thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/setting-up...

Setting up to Live-code in Class

More exciting that is sounds!

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