Teaching and Learning Teaching and Learning is a photographic essay that I began as a faculty member at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, in 2006. I gave my students and myself an assignment: to document in photographs our lives and the lives of our peers outside the classroom doors. In pursuing this project, we observed and shared the many challenges facing our respective groups. The result was the development of a mutual respect for our respective workloads, as well as the many challenges we face in becoming model students and instructors. Student photographs depict the reality of attending multiple institutions, as well as balancing coursework with employment, home and social life. The photographs of faculty likewise bring to the fore the many duties they have in the pursuit of ongoing professional development and student learning outcomes. By the close of the 2006 academic year, I had gathered hundreds of student photographs on a multitude of issues facing them both in and out of the classroom. I had also established a considerable body of my own work on the topic of teaching and learning. My photographs throughout that year gradually expanded to include campus administrators, such as the president, CAO, and several deans. This brought into light a vital part of campus work: collaboration. As I continue to work on this project today, the focus of it is increasingly on that topic. Student photographs, as well as more of my own work on the Teaching and Learning project can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/teachlearnproject Click picture for close up