For this Thursday's #ResearchSpotlight, we have a resource for teachers to consider comprehensive rubrics as a tool to offer feedback to student writing.
Check out these rubric examples by Brooke Carlson! https://works.hcommons.org/records/4rwp1-27n16#description-heading
Here is another #ResearchSpotlight for language teachers to develop lesson plans that consider their students' success not only with language proficiency but also with intercultural competence. 
https://works.hcommons.org/records/sp3w9-mb560
#ResearchSpotlight day calls for another instructional resource! Here is a helpful piece about backward course design, its faults, and making sure it's used correctly. Check out Miranda Rodak's work! 
https://works.hcommons.org/records/ktq7y-3ma63#description-heading
Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a resource by Rebecca Davis for building attendance flexibility into a course. Check out the work to find more about "Oops Tokens." https://works.hcommons.org/records/p83n8-j2j46
Our first #ResearchSpotlight for the month of August is this toolkit for developing good course descriptions 
Share it with the instructors and teachers in your life! https://works.hcommons.org/records/zvbkk-a8a78#description-heading
July has come to a close, so here is our final #ResearchSpotlight, marking the end of Disability Pride Month. Today, we are highlighting a monograph by Leora Fridman. This work, part lyric essay and part cultural criticism, discusses the relationship between crisis, community, politics, activism, and disability. https://works.hcommons.org/records/9jsjs-msw79#description-heading
Attention, Lord of the Rings fans! 
Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a journal article by Todd A. Comer analyzing the Lord of the Rings' Frodo as a hero who is not self-sufficient. By interpreting Frodo as a disabled hero, Comer argues that the movies present a more ethical way of living "that recognizes dependence on others and the world." https://works.hcommons.org/records/t0236-nyv16#description-heading
Our #ResearchSpotlight of today is a book section by Angela M. Carter, R. Tina Catania, Sam Schmitt, and Amanda Swenson. Their work discusses the difficulties around disability and disclosure in graduate school as experienced by disabled students. https://works.hcommons.org/records/tfvv3-b2z55
Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a book section by Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman about the harmful relation between monstrosity and disability in Medieval and Early Modern art and literature. https://works.hcommons.org/records/3whp4-qnt63#description-heading
Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a journal article by Alexandra Morris about the Egyptians' understanding of Cerebral Palsy. The article explores how Egyptians depicted this disability artistically and how they believed their god Harpocrates also had it. https://works.hcommons.org/records/fcex0-3ra27#description-heading
Another day of Disability Pride Month means another #ResearchSpotlight! Today, we are sharing a syllabus for an Introduction to Literary Studies course by Dr. Hayley Stefa, titled "Reading Bodies & Disability." Check out this amazing resource available through KCWorks! 
https://works.hcommons.org/records/ewtek-d4k51#description-heading
Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a conference paper by Jonathan Paul Mitchell about how "normal ability" is a social construct rather than an "objectively existing state of affairs" that normalizes certain modes of embodiedment over others, creating"disability." 
https://works.hcommons.org/records/przet-fyw18#description-heading
Today's #ResearchSpotlight features a book section by Michelle Maroto and David Pettinicchio, examining how ableism leads to disparities in higher education, employment, and wealth among people with disabilities. Check out the link! https://works.hcommons.org/records/ktjs6-zcc71#description-heading
Our final #ResearchSpotlight of June is this journal article by Kanika Batra about gay liberation literature in South Africa and its importance. https://works.hcommons.org/records/tvfsy-zcx72#description-heading
Stay tuned for the announcement of our spotlight theme for July!
It's #ResearchSpotlight Thursday! Today's deposit is a thesis by Melissa Rakshana Steiner
about the relationship between digital information management, cultural heritage institutions, and ethical archival practices particularly when it comes to queer, trans and intersex people of color (QTIPOC) collections. https://works.hcommons.org/records/sgz5y-hpe27#description-heading
Here is another #ResearchSpotlight following our Pride Month theme! This deposit is a journal article by Samuel Ross, which offers a transgender reading of the Bible's Genesis 38. Check the link to read more about it! https://works.hcommons.org/records/k89dy-5ea62
What is lesbian scholarship without Audre Lorde? Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a journal article by Sarah E. Chinn about blindness and its connection to lesbian sexuality in Lorde's "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name." https://buff.ly/PQuNU9y
Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a book chapter by Alexa Alice Joubin from the Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. Check out this deposit to read about gender performativity and transness in works like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, the Wachowski Sisters' Matrix trilogy, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. https://works.hcommons.org/records/11kgt-2m376#description-heading
June's first #ResearchSpotlight features a book chapter by Freyja T. Catton, who shares their experience job hunting after graduating from an MLIS while being a nonbinary trans person with disabilities. The work explores the challenges associated with these intersecting identities when seeking employment. https://works.hcommons.org/records/n2v2t-yef45#description-heading
The final #ResearchSpotlight of the month is a journal article by Nicole L. Lozano, Elyssa Maria Fatima G. Virrey, and Teresita T. Rungduin, which "provides insight into the factors influencing college students' attitudes and experiences concerning mental health support." 
https://works.hcommons.org/records/n7yfg-sqe04
