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Jun 11

Will This Teaching Idea Work for Me? Why Context Matters

When I learn about an amazing new teaching practice, I often get excited about the wonderful possibilities it offers to improve my…

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Apr 21

A Framework I’m Developing to Decide When to Say Yes to Service Requests

When I became an associate professor of the practice, I said yes to almost everything because I thought that was what I was supposed to do…

A woman working at a desk with a speech bubble from someone off screen saying “Hey, can you do…”

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Feb 19

Brainstorming with an LLM Student Activity

My LLM brainstorming student activity was accepted to SIGCSE TS 2026’s Special Session ACM Generative AI Task Force Special Session…

3 students brainstorming with a robot on the laptop screen.

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Dec 31, 2025

Impacts on my workload when I became an Associate Professor

I became an Associate Professor of the Practice in January 2024. This means academic year (AY) 24–25 was the first time I had to negotiate…

A boxplot showing the number of total hours spent working per week per semester.

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Jun 27, 2025

There’s Always More to Do: How I Made Peace with That

Spring 2025 was rough for me. I was teaching a new course alongside one of my usual courses, which had over 100 students. On top of that, I…

Yellow emoji crying face with an assortment of books and paper on its head.

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May 16, 2025

A Peek Inside My Teaching Team’s Task Tracker

TLDR: This post is a behind-the-scenes look at a task tracker I’ve developed over years of managing teaching teams (from 3 to 36 teaching…

Screenshot of some of the lists from the Trello board.

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Mar 22, 2025

Helping Students Connect the Dots: The Power of a Class Plan Slide

While going through my mid-semester survey this semester, I discovered an expert blind spot in myself. One variation of an expert blind…

A screenshot of a slide with lines including “mid-semester survey report back”, a bullet saying “Struggles in Prepare” with multiple subbullets under it.

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Dec 14, 2024

Generative AI Thoughts, Timestamp Fall 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) exploded into the academic teaching landscape in 2021, and we have been coping ever since. I’ve been quietly thinking…

An AI-generated image that says “Geneerative AI Thoughts Timestamp Fall 2024” (yes, it did make a typo)

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Oct 14, 2024

Your Productivity System Needs to Evolve with You

If you follow this blog at all, you know how much I love thinking about productivity (to-do list tracking, calendar time management, time…

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Jul 23, 2024

How I Track My Time

A common tactic for better managing your workload is tracking how you spend your time. But what does that even mean? Most of what I’ve read…

A screenshot of a spreadsheet with many rows, colors, and tabs of the author’s time tracker.

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Kristin Stephens-Martinez

Creator and host of The CS-Ed Podcast https://csedpodcast.org/ Associate Professor of the Practice in Computer Science at Duke University.

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