Cameron Conaway

A 5-Step Approach to Developing Feedback-Literate Students

As a long-time adjunct with a full-time job outside academia, I’m always looking for “impact efficiencies,” ways to shift my performance that both save me time and allow me to deliver better results. For that reason, I’ve been cautious about assigning traditional cases in my graduate-level marketing courses. The more deliberate nature of case discussions doesn’t often align with my nimble, fast-paced teaching style.

Recently, however, I was pleased to find Quick Cases, which enable my… Mehr zeigen

As a long-time adjunct with a full-time job outside academia, I’m always looking for “impact efficiencies,” ways to shift my performance that both save me time and allow me to deliver better results. For that reason, I’ve been cautious about assigning traditional cases in my graduate-level marketing courses. The more deliberate nature of case discussions doesn’t often align with my nimble, fast-paced teaching style.

Recently, however, I was pleased to find Quick Cases, which enable my students (and me) to enjoy much of what traditional case discussions offer—without as much effort. Weniger anzeigen

Last semester, I taught a simulation for the first time in my decade-long career as a college educator. It went so well that, as soon as it ended, I started thinking about when I would teach another. My advice for those considering teaching a simulation is twofold: There’s more risk in not teaching a simulation than in going for it, and the reward will be worth the effort.

We all receive feedback from time to time. But are we able to process it and make the most of it? Not always. Processing feedback goes far beyond listening to it in the moment and implementing it; it involves continuous reflection, conversation, and practice. While much of this happens because of the way we receive feedback, there is much we can do, too, to make sure we’re processing feedback the right way.

“Cameron Conaway has created a collection of poems from deep in the heart and soul of an ever-changing and healing masculinity. He masterfully uses personal experience and perspective to make visible what so many of us feel but never question, much less articulate. Each poem is an invitation to the reader to feel, to reflect, and to change. As someone who uses artistic expression to ask men and boys to consider and create healthy masculinities, I am grateful to have Man Box as an extraordinary… Mehr zeigen

“Cameron Conaway has created a collection of poems from deep in the heart and soul of an ever-changing and healing masculinity. He masterfully uses personal experience and perspective to make visible what so many of us feel but never question, much less articulate. Each poem is an invitation to the reader to feel, to reflect, and to change. As someone who uses artistic expression to ask men and boys to consider and create healthy masculinities, I am grateful to have Man Box as an extraordinary resource.”
—Dr. Tom Schiff, Founder and Executive Director, Phallacies, Inc. and Founding Director of the UMass Men and Masculinities Center

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“In this exquisite collection, Conaway breaks the manacles of manhood by bravely disrupting its ‘lexicon of destruction.’ In dialogue with texts that range from ancient to popular culture, his poems explore the myriad ways that boys are ‘the first victims / and the second perpetrators …broken to see / the world as theirs but not / until they murder it.’ The strength of these poems comes from the tenderness and vulnerability they unapologetically express—and the dazzling prosody by which they express it. If ever a book of poetry had the promise to make a vital impact on our contemporary culture, it is Man Box.”
—Christina Cook, author of Ricochet and A Strange Insomnia

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“Man Box is a heart-full exploration of how we train men to be men, how men go about being men, and the consequences for us all. From boyhood to war to moonlight to death, Conaway bares his soul to help us see our own.”
—Keith E. Edwards, PhD., scholar and educator on men’s identity Weniger anzeigen

Chittagong by Cameron Conaway is a book of poems and essays that focuses on the shipbreaking industry in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Shipbreaking is the dismantling of decommissioned ships, and the industry is known for its pollution and child labor violations. The result of a collision between travel writing, contemporary poetics and bearing witness, Chittagong pushes genre boundaries as it explores the "whirling and whirring dust of togetherness" in Bangladesh's second largest city.

Malaria kills nearly one million people each year. Hundreds of millions more are sickened by the disease, and many of them are permanently disabled. Billions are spent each year to understand it. Researchers know the molecular details of the interaction between the mosquito and our own red blood cells, and the myriad ways in which malaria impacts the global economy and the advancement of humanity. But what of the public? Though its story is told in thousands of articles and in hundreds of… Mehr zeigen

Malaria kills nearly one million people each year. Hundreds of millions more are sickened by the disease, and many of them are permanently disabled. Billions are spent each year to understand it. Researchers know the molecular details of the interaction between the mosquito and our own red blood cells, and the myriad ways in which malaria impacts the global economy and the advancement of humanity. But what of the public? Though its story is told in thousands of articles and in hundreds of books, many in the developed world are unaware of how prevalent malaria still is. Malaria, Poems testifies to the importance of bridging the chasm between science and art. It adds thread to a tattered and tragic global narrative; it is poetry’s attempt to reawaken care in a cold case that keeps killing. According to Cicero the aim of the orator is threefold: to teach, to delight, and to move. Poets during the renaissance embraced this idea, and Malaria, Poems reinvigorates it. Allen Ginsberg called for a poetry of social consciousness, a “bare knuckle warrior poetics.” Cameron Conaway, a former MMA fighter, offers Malaria, Poems both as a response to Ginsberg’s call and as a new call to contemporary poetry. Weniger anzeigen

Four fictionalized female juveniles represent each of the four levels from a juvenile detention center's Restorative Justice Model. With this as structure, Until You Make the Shore inhabits the humanity of mind, justice and traumatic childhood as it carves its way through systems and harsh realities to find where empathy shines.

Bones of the dead are ground into nutritious meal that give rise to other lives. Through taut and muscular poetry, Bonemeal pulses this theme into the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, the laundry workers of Mumbai, the BP oil waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the spoonmaker in Laos and the young Rwandan boy searching through dead bodies in the hopes that he’ll find his mother. This book isn’t so much a guide as a torch willing to light wherever the reader is willing to point it.

Accomplished MMA fighter and award-winning writer Cameron Conaway presents in Caged the true story of a young man who overcomes a family background and his own inner torment by learning to channel his frustrations into the physical world of mixed martial arts fighting and the cerebral world of poetry and writing. It teaches the value of personal reflection, how life's most painful moments can lead to a deeper understanding and appreciation of human nature, and just what is possible when… Mehr zeigen

Accomplished MMA fighter and award-winning writer Cameron Conaway presents in Caged the true story of a young man who overcomes a family background and his own inner torment by learning to channel his frustrations into the physical world of mixed martial arts fighting and the cerebral world of poetry and writing. It teaches the value of personal reflection, how life's most painful moments can lead to a deeper understanding and appreciation of human nature, and just what is possible when optimism and determination combine to overcome tough odds. Caged shows how the pursuit of two seemingly disparate passions helped a struggling boy blossom into a simple man. The result is a literary and lyrical philosophical journey into the heart and mind of a modern-day warrior. Weniger anzeigen