Everyday Teaching Awardees

May 2024 – Daniel Fologea  “Completely dedicated to helping students succeed in STEM courses: undergrads, grad students, HS students.  He runs help sessions on his own time, and is passionate about active learning in his classes.  Provides students from multiple majors with mentored research opportunities.  He truly cares deeply about students’ understanding and success.”

May 2024 – Jillian Moroney “Jillian excels at connecting her students with the community. She works with partners to identify authentic problems and questions suited to students’ developing skillsets. Her preparation and guidance ensure that when students visit field sites they are confident and focused. Her students’ work based on community-engaged projects is always inspirational!”

May 2024 – Tyrin Stevenson “One of the aspects of Tyrin’s courses that students rave about is his innovative approaches to the dreaded Discussion Board. Tyrin constantly seeks to improve his teaching. He spent time thinking about his undergraduate experiences and what he and his fellow students talked about when it came to college classes. Discussion Boards were the most despised. So, he set out to fix this problem by rethinking how he utilized Discussion Boards in his courses. In this remodel, he required students to post more often and do more work than in ‘traditional’ Discussion Board posts, but it paid off. Students actually rave about Discussion Boards in his class – they love them.”

April 2024 – Franziska Borders “Franzi teaches German and is a Discussion Group Leader for 2 different sections of UF100. Franzi is constantly thinking about how to better the student experience, both in and outside of the classroom. She creates engaging experiences exploring identity and culture, often meets with students outside of class to help them with assignments, and helps students obtain resources on campus”.

April 2024 – Cody Coker “Cody is an excellent teacher and mentor. He is currently working with a former student on an independent project stemming from the class he taught that they were in. He helped the student apply for the COAS research grant. He is also working with students on a panel for the upcoming Northwest Communication Associations’ annual conference.  In general, students love him and flock to his classes because of his warm personality, engaged teaching style, and clear concern for student well-being”.

April 2024 – Luke Jones “Luke completely redesigned our MBA 531 – Design Thinking & Strategic Perspectives class. This is one of the first course in our Professional MBA program (evening MBA for working professional managers). He was exceptional. He brought in relevant guest speakers, coordinated a full consulting project and used hands-on methods to teach. Course evaluations were better than ever and it was evident he spent so much time working on this course! Impressive for any instructor, but especially for an adjunct working FT at Simplot.”

March 2024 – Megan Dardis-Kunz “is a model of what community concern and advocacy looks like for our students, with them often commenting on her passion and commitment to a high level of social justice advocacy in our profession. Professor Dardis-Kunz openly shares examples of her community work with our students, so they can see what we teach them ‘in action’; this modeling is imperative in our area of teaching.”

March 2024 – Anastasia Tracy “was not only given the ominous task when she started as new faculty at Boise State to take the Diagnostic Medical Sonography (DMS) program over as the new program director, but also move the academic and laboratory experiences online. Ms. Tracy has not only successfully accomplished this once considered impossible feat, but has now had the new method of delivery via Boise State’s DMS program approved as the first JRCDMS/CAAHEP accredited online BS DMS program in the United States.”

February 2024 – Jayson Gill “is really good at engaging students of all levels. In his Intro to Archaeology class (mostly non-majors), he integrates hands-on activities that get students interacting with each other and prompts them to think like an archaeologist. In his upper-division courses, he holds class discussions that allow students to simply have a conversation together about the material, and they feel comfortable doing so because Jayson provides a laid-back, low-pressure environment where students feel comfortable. […] Overall, Jayson is very dedicated and wants the best for all of his students, and it shows”.

February 2024 – Ashley Nichols “goes above and beyond as not only a faculty member, but our program lead. She is personable in her teaching style, and models the behaviors she is trying to teach. One semester, after asking the students what they needed to succeed in her class and learning that they all felt really hungry during that course period, she started bringing snacks to class for them. When I have gone to her for help with my own students, she goes out of her way to find me/my students resources that they need. She moved our online learning program to OER text only and is a big advocate for economic accessibility for our students”.