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Alexia Franzidis is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She serves as the program coordinator for the Tourism, Recreation, Sport program, and teaches courses related to Tourism, Hospitality, and Events Management. She has been teaching full-time in higher education since 2009 and has published five peer-reviewed articles on applied learning initiatives and engaging teaching strategies.
Last Updated: 05-16-2022

- How Can I Use the First Day to Set the Tone for a Semester of Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers meaningful, teacher-tested activities for the first day of class, that can easily be integrated into any course, which maximize the interest, investment, and interaction for students for the rest of the semester.
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- From Research to Practice: A Co-Mentoring Model for Women in Faculty Development Leadership
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar demonstrates how you can create an effective support system for women leaders through a proven model created by the expert presenters and backed by research.
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- How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Discover how to integrate meaningful communication skills with instruction and reflection to enrich the online student learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities through service learning.
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- The Discussion Board and Beyond: How Can I Engage Students Online?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to overcome common challenges of online discussion boards while examining other options for engagement both by using the learning management system (LMS) and engaging students outside of the online classroom.
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- How Can I Adapt 5 Popular Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to the Online Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor shows you how to use the insights gained from using CATs to adjust future lessons and target your instruction to better meet the needs of your students.
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- How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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- What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who have mixed- or low-level reading skills among students combined with course materials that are reading intensive, this 20-Minute Mentor details skills to implement that help strengthen student reading as well as instructional techniques to intervene before students lag behind.
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- Transferable Training Skills
- $39.00 – $299.00
- For student affairs professionals looking to enhance the leadership skills of the students they work with, this Magna Online Seminar, presented and facilitated by Leadership Trainer, will help maximize engagement and develop leadership capacity in their students.
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- Engaging Students with Reflective Dialogue
- $39.00 – $299.00
- For student affairs professionals looking to enhance the leadership skills of the students they work with, this Magna Online Seminar, presented and facilitated by Leadership Trainer, demonstrates how reflected dialogue can be effectively used to best engage students to create better learning and growth opportunities.
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- Purposeful Training for Advisors
- $39.00 – $299.00
- For student affairs professionals looking to enhance the leadership skills of the students they work with, this Magna Online Seminar, presented and facilitated by Leadership Trainer, delivers development and training skills that can be immediately used in their campus advising and mentoring work.
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- How Can I Reach and Teach Struggling Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For teachers whose students are struggling to keep up with course content, pace, and assignments, this 20-Minute Mentor provides effective strategies for engaging students, assessing progress and comprehension, and promoting a growth mindset.
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- How Can You Become More Intentional About Culturally Responsive Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty desiring to improve student success by creating a more student-focused approach to teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers strategies that address diversity through the adaptation of content, instruction, and materials of Culturally Responsive Teaching and its link to student success.
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- How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty whose students are not applying feedback beyond a specific assignment, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how by creating a dialogue around feedback, students will learn not only what needs correcting in a specific assignment, but how to apply this learning to future assignment as well. Learn how to combine feedback with student engagement to create meaningful learning.
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- How Can I Apply a Resilient Mindset to My Teaching Practice?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty experiencing burnout from tough pandemic teaching conditions, this 20-Minute Mentor shows you how one educator embraced resiliency to create a positive outlook in a difficult time.
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- What Did We Learn from Pandemic Teaching and What Are We Keeping as We Move On?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- While hard to realize, the pandemic was a time of instructional learning and growth. This 20-Minute Mentor guides faculty in choosing the best improvements to keep as you move on to classroom teaching.
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- How Can I Teach with Confidence in the Hyflex Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who must teach hyflex sessions, this 20-Minute Mentor delivers specific and creative engagement tactics to enhance engagement in each setting to bring the entire class together in achieving academic success.
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- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
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- For faculty who feel overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how the benefits of hyflex teaching outweigh the challenges for both teachers and students alike while delivering time saving successful strategies to employ.
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- What Are Best Practices for Hyflex Course Design and Delivery?
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- For faculty not understanding or being overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor provides clarity on steps to take in both planning and instructing a hyflex course as well as successful tips for engaging students in hyflex learning.
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- How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty whose syllabi are often unread by students, leading to confusion and even misinformation later in the course, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how to make a visually appealing syllabus that quickly communicates crucial course details to students in an engaging way.
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- Design and Teach an Equitable and Inclusive Course
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar provides a five-point framework to establish inclusive teaching practices and expand faculty’s inclusivity mindset.
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- How Can I Use Everyday Interactions to Instill a Growth Mindset in Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor delivers practical advice from an experienced educator who has learned to change her communication with students in order to build small moments of opportunity for shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset.
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- What Are Best Practices for Online Pedagogy?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve or are just not conversant with online teaching, this 20-Minute Mentor establishes the overall goal of virtual instruction while providing clear, practical, and proven online learning best practices.
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- What’s Different About Teaching Online, and How Do I Change So My Students Succeed?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor provides a clear distinction between online learning and face to face learning differentiating best practices and course design for more effective instruction.
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- Understanding Racial Justice Through Food Studies
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar explores the relationship between race and food in order to teach key leadership skills for racial justice in institutions of higher education. Examine how food systems create racialized problems for minority communities along the lines of food insecurity, health, and identity.
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