Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Sarah Rose Cavanagh is senior associate director for teaching and learning at Simmons University, where she also teaches in the psychology department as an associate professor of practice. Her latest book is Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health With Compassionate Challenge. You can find her on Twitter @SaRoseCav, and her website is Sarahrosecav.com.
Stories by this Author
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Advice‘They Need Us to Be Well’
The surprising recipe for building students’ emotional well-being in the classroom? Rest and joy — for professors. -
Advice
Will Mandated Mental-Health Breaks Do More Harm Than Good?
New policies presume it’s beneficial for anxious students to take days off from class. That assumption has several critical flaws. -
Advice
4 Classroom Lessons From Haunted Houses
What research on “recreational fear” — the fun of being scared — can teach us about learning in the college classroom. -
Advice
Your Most Important Resource Is Eyeing the Door
What colleges and universities need now is compassion, but not for the reasons you might think. -
Advice
How to Play in the College Classroom in a Pandemic, and Why You Should
Seven ways to lighten things up in class that are emotionally, academically, and pedagogically sound. -
Advice
How I’m Spending My Pandemic Summer Vacation
A professor creates a syllabus to guide herself and other faculty members in preparing for more remote teaching this fall, amid Covid-19. -
Advice
The Best (and Worst) Ways to Respond to Student Anxiety
A faculty member who has struggled with clinical anxiety explores how to deal with the rising rates of undergraduate mental-health issues. -
New Semester
How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging
Stimulate your students’ curiosity — and help them learn — using the tried-and-true techniques in this comprehensive guide. -
