Hello everyone! Welcome to Clinical Teaching Practicum. I look forward to getting to know each of you this semester and sharing my knowledge and experiences with you!

This blogpost will be replaced by the static home page of the teaching website we will all be collaborating on together.  Currently posted also is a late draft of Habit One, to show you an exemplar of the web pages you will be drafting this semester.  (It is currently missing links and cites which one of you will add as part of your semester’s work; we expect all the web pages to have these.)

I look forward to watching this website grow over the semester, with your work and Sue’s and my individual work.  We are eager for your ideas about how to make the website more useful, more encouraging, and more complete for clinical teachers now and in the future.

The website also needs a name!  Please weigh in, perhaps starting in the comments to this page. (We don’t plan on comments on any public or permanent parts of the website, but we may experiment a bit in the comments during the course of the Practicum)

This website aims to offer to clinical law teachers materials developed by me and Sue Bryant of CUNY Law School, individually and in collaboration.  Sue and I are both retiring imminently, and we have closely collaborated since 1999.   We have taught clinics in domestic violence, representation of children, immigration, asylum, prisoner’s rights and disability advocacy over our careers.  We are perhaps best known for the Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering, a curriculum now taught in law school clinics around the country. As part of this curriculum, we have created tools for lawyers wishing to improve their competencies in cross-cultural work and talking about race in the classroom.

The Practicum aims to create a fun, collaborative community of discussion of clinical teaching, centered around these teaching resources and the growing clinical pedagogy of the seminar students.