{"id":138044,"date":"2018-06-15T07:59:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=138044"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:51:10","slug":"kristi-kaeppel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/06\/kristi-kaeppel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dropping Out of High School Helped Grad Student Learn About Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that a student who dropped out of high school goes on to pursue a Ph.D., but that\u2019s the story of Neag School of Education doctoral student Kristi Kaeppel.<\/p>\n<p>Kaeppel, who studies Adult Learning in the Learning, Leadership, and Educational Policy program, runs a blog called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/gcci.uconn.edu\/category\/blog\/\">That Wasn\u2019t on the Syllabus<\/a>\u201d for the Graduate Certificate in College Instruction program as a graduate assistant. Her blog posts on college education trends and issues included one very personal to her experience: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/gcci.uconn.edu\/2017\/05\/23\/what-being-a-high-school-drop-out-taught-me-about-teaching\/\">What Being a High School Dropout Taught Me about Teaching<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julie Bartucca from the UConn 360 podcast sat down with Kaeppel to talk about how her background informs her research today, and about her other research on topics including women supporting each other in academia.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-138044-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kristi-kaeppel.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kristi-kaeppel.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kristi-kaeppel.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For the full podcast and other episodes, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast\">uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Bartucca from the UConn 360 podcast discusses with Ph.D. candidate Kristi Kaeppel how her background informs her research today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":138470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2459,2141,2076,1875,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1929],"class_list":["post-138044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-students","category-podcast","category-research","category-grad-school","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 12:18:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139529,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138044\/revisions\/139529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/138470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138044"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=138044"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=138044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}