It is always intimidating to ask professors for reference letters. I’m committed to writing to good letters for strong candidates that I know well and have some familiarity with. To help ease you through the process, I have listed some requirements for students that I write for:
How I sort my documents and e-mail for PTR.
An overview of course preparation for my own use.
Thoughts about organizing a one-day retreat.
A description of my writing ritual.
A little bit of biography copy.
Notes and resources from a conference.
Ways to get involved in math in Toronto.
Do you have any questions?
If you’re a student doing interesting things, please make a website.
How to prepare a probationary review dossier as a teaching stream faculty at UTSC.
These are scattered bullet point notes from Lauren DeDieu’s Margaret Sinclair Award Lecture
The best exam that I ever took.
Thoughts on AI and writing.
A summary of the Kangaroo Volunteer Orientation 2025.
How I sort exam papers using bucket sort.
An e-mail from a student about my teaching and blogging.
Early thoughts from Parker Palmer about Quaker education.
This is a checklist of things that I need to do on a weekly basis for work. It was inspired by Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
Recordings are great, until they are not.
Creating a repertoire of mathematical experiences for sharing with others.
What to do if you think I might be dead, who to contact, and some thoughts about why that matters.
Thoughts about how to undo the effect of docstrip.
How to get your course evaluation data and format it in $\LaTeX$.
Things I wish that I’d known when I started teaching.
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