At the outset of Spring 2003, Robin Nuzum, Nishant Shahani, and Harun Karim Thomas formed a pedagogy discussion group to create a platform for new and experienced Teaching Assistants and any interested parties to engage with their pedagogical practices and raise any form of practical and theoretical concerns related to the classroom context.

While we have often been encouraged to privilege our own academic concerns over teaching responsibilities, we feel that there are more useful ways in which this academic vs. pedagogic divide could be negotiated.