The BRCC Library has added a new book of interest for those of us looking to expand our teaching toolkit. Why Students Resist Learning edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling is offered as a practical model for understanding and helping students. The authors spend some time on the subject of student resistance that you may encounter as you begin to move them from passive to active learners. The book is written in a way that helps us "develop a coherent and integrated understanding of the various causes of student resistance to learning...and enable them to create conditions conducive to implementing effecting learning strategies." There is also a new volume (54, number 1-February 2017) of the American Educational Research Journal in the collections. There are a number of articles related to teaching in the STEM disciplines. In addition, the opening article, Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation by Joseph Kahne and Benjamin Bowyer might be of interest to you in your attempt to teach information literacy and critical thinking to our students.