Students no longer choose a lifelong career; thus, engaging students in career exploration advising when selecting a college major has payoffs for institutions and students. With nearly 40% of students never utilizing campus career development services, bringing career exploration into the classroom is necessary. This article introduces a series…

Four stories of social learning from one Australian university reflect on communities of practice (CoPs) focused on different aspects of quality in teaching and learning. Each convener writes about their CoP convening experience in the context of Wenger-Trayner and Wenger-Trayner's mapping of the "mindset of a systems convener" (2021,…

The authors report on a pilot project designed to integrate habits of mind into a skills-based first-year seminar. This project featured the development of a curriculum map outlining the primary learning objectives for seven habits of mind--curiosity, perseverance, introspection, courage, humility, empathy, and civility--and this study shares that…

Employing narrative inquiry, this study explores how pre-service teachers at a Chinese comprehensive university have been transformed by structured mentoring as a "third space." The research details two narratives under the theoretical framework of the third space. "The Sense of Mission Under the Laugh" highlights the…

This article outlines the formation and ongoing development of a Pedagogic Research Community of Practice using physical and digital social spaces. Community meetings, writing retreats, writing cafés, and an annual conference offer opportunities to interact, network, and form multi-disciplinary research teams. Supplementing these synchronous…

This study investigated how the implementation of a personal change project impacted school psychology graduate students' knowledge of the change process. Ten school psychology graduate students completed a personal change project (PCP) in which they initiated a change within their personal life. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected…