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Teaching Strategies

Find teaching inspiration and practical methods to keep your students engaged and learning.

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Hitting Sears When It’s Down

It has been painful for several years to see the retailer Sears disintegrate before our eyes.  The company did not adjust well to changes in its environment, and it has paid a...
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James Lang On How a Shared Document Can Speed Up Grading

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJames Lang, author of the book Small Teaching, briefly describes how he uses a shared document with his students to that he can save time in the grading process.   [...]Read...
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Digital Assets And The Estate/Gift Tax

Contributing Author: William A Raabe One aspect of estate planning that will be of interest to your students is the treatment of a decedent’s digital assets upon death, as to taxes but also...
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James Lang on the Minute Paper Teaching Technique

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJames Lang, author of Small Teaching, spoke at one of our Empowered Educator webinars.  In this audio clip he describes how faculty can use the “Minute Paper” small teaching technique to...
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A Deeper Dive into Hot Assets

Contributing Author: James H. Boyd  A Deeper Dive into Hot Assets  One aspect of partnership taxation creates much of the complexity of Subchapter K:  the idea that ordinary income treatment must be preserved and allocated to...
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Ice Breakers and First Day of Class Activities

Planning for the start of the semester is on my mind. I’ve always believed the first day of class sets the tone for the semester. I teach large sections of gen-ed history...
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New Microsoft Word 365 REWRITE Feature

Reading Time: < 1 minuteImagine you are drafting a curriculum masterpiece that you will share with your whole college team, but your “wordsmithing” superpowers are woefully tired for the day. So the new Word feature...
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Should the Individual AMT Be Repealed?

Contributing Author: Jim Young  The alternative minimum tax (AMT) was put in place in 1969, and it has been a controversial part of the tax law ever since.  Taxpayers who are subject to the AMT discover...
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