Engaging Educators as Scholar-Practitioners

Chaz Shipman is the band director in a school district in Butler/Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania. Like so many teachers we know, the pandemic promoted him to evaluate his career and thinking[...]

Welcome to the Scholar-Practitioner Nexus. This website is an outgrowth of our book, On Being a Scholar-Practitioner: Wisdom in Action.  In the book, we stress the importance of Communities of[...]

Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. New York: Viking, 2008. My Stroke of Insight Although this book does not deal directly with education, we[...]

Piantanida, Maria. A Call to Learning: From Resistance to Engagement. Pittsburgh: Learning Moments Press, 2020. A Call to Learning “When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the[...]

Piantanida, Maria, McMahon, Patricia L., & Llewellyn, Marilyn. On Being a Scholar-Practitioner: Practical Wisdom in Action. (Pittsburgh: Learning Moments Press, 2019). On Being a Scholar-Practitioner: Practical Wisdom in Action On[...]