Where We Are: Writing Initiatives Designed to Support Well-Being Facilitating Well-Being in a Pandemic through Writing Course Innovation

In addition to supporting equitable instruction, this approach reduced student emails while having the added benefit of modeling effective course design for GTAs. [...]apprentice GTAs seemed to have stronger capacities to support students. Though their early foray into teaching was not without difficulty, the support they received helped to free up their cognitive and emotional resources, which they were then able to allocate to tasks such as reaching out to and encouraging struggling students, providing personalized and constructive feedback on students' writings, and empathizing with and advising students on managing stressors that arose. [...]an ethic of kindness surfaced in the pandemic that transformed how we collectively think about teaching in general.