Prof. Lisa Baldez

When Lisa Baldez joined Dartmouth’s government department a decade ago, the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) was just forming—and Baldez, who officially took over as director of DCAL in November, thought she already knew how to teach.

“Part of why I came to Dartmouth was because Dartmouth cares about teaching,” says Baldez, who chairs the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies program. “I thought of myself as a good teacher. But I found teaching very challenging. The difference between a good class and a bad class, a good lecture and a bad lecture, seemed random.”

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