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'Barrio Sipsipnget' and Other Good Stuff: Professor JANET TIBALDO on Communicating Empathetically

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Reaping the fruits of her maternal, academic, and Christ-like labor, our esteemed speaker gives us an inside scoop on work-life balance as a teacher striving in a global pandemic, in more or less a hundred minutes. You think you have a lot on your plate more than you can masticate? Tibaldo's students sit in awe as they are filled in on her school-wise life updates: finishing her PhD during lockdown meant a virtual graduation that would not exactly live up to the actual march to the stage and an exciting journal article in the editing pipeline, already accepted for publication early November 2020. An alumna herself of Saint Louis University (SLU)'s Mass Communication Program, Janet S. Tibaldo also acquired her MA in Language Education and PhD Language in Baguio's top university. Born in the Martial Law Era and an activist prior to her heydays as a tertiary educator, Tibaldo of the Department of Language and Communication in SLU's School of Teacher Education and Liberal A