I'm co-facilitating a learning community this year & one of the profs off-handedly mentioned how they've tried to make their course as tech-free as possible. Which is not a new idea, but it's interesting because of WHO said it. It wasn't someone who never learned tech tools in the 1st place ...

When my wife posts on Bluesky, she calls it “fluttering,” and I think we should all go with that.

Y'all, we need to work harder on including salary ranges in job posts. And if you think there's a policy preventing that, ask questions of both HR & Finance to make sure that's really, really true. We used to not post them & now we do because questions were asked. (And no, I'm not on the hunt. 😁)

Reminder that the Gmail Snooze button is a handy tool this time of year. Some things are getting snoozed till December 16 for a deep work retreat but a lot are snoozing till January. I used to keep things in the inbox till handled, but switching to snooze has been a great anxiety management tool!

Come work with me! And I mean really, really closely with me! 😁 Our team is the very best, and we'd love to have you join us. appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/48673

Tonight at the ARC bar, #POD24 friends! It's just a fun, clique-averse get-together to hang out and see each other. I'm just a bit too scattered to do all the PR for it. All are welcome!

Alright goofballs, here’s the POD Conference day 1 fit. Come find me! Even if we don’t know each other in real life! We can hug if you want! We are maximizing dopamine right now to prepare for whatever comes next in the fight.

Hi #POD24 friends. Are you maybe a little tired this week (month..year..years) like I am? If so, join me in making conference decisions that are about your joy/peace/other personally-meaningful noun. This is not a time to “get your money’s worth.” Whatever comes next needs us rested and grounded.

So, I made it through the beginning of the school year as a new (unplanned) executive director, through a catastrophic hurricane and its lingering effects, and through my last conference directing, all without a migraine. It seems the election was the straw that broke the camel's back, though ...

I get that compliance can be a useful tool in maintaining access so good work can continue. But compliance becomes complicity much faster than we think. And I'm pretty sure no one realizes they've made the switch until it's too late.

I don't care about sportsball but people in my life do, so basketball brackets: engaged! I did one based on the relative sassiness of the mascots (which involved MANY google image searches). And another based on the aesthetics of university homepages (many more searches). Obviously, I will win. 😆

I opened applications for our summer Course ReDesign institute 24 hours ago. We've got competition this year as others are starting to follow both our timing and compensation models. Good, but also 😳 Well, I just checked and we already have 20 applicants, including representation from all colleges!

If your job relies on people "buying in" before doing what you want (learning, buying a product, etc), please read The Art of Gathering. This is not a new book nor rec, but I continue to be stunned by the way people start things (Zooms, classes) in ways that ignore this wisdom. (🫠 in a webinar)

My team at App State is hiring TWO Educational Developers! Come work with me! appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/45013 #HigherEd #EdDev #FacDev

Want to come work with me and the awesome CETLSS team at App State? We're hiring for two new Educational Development Specialist positions! Position is mostly on-site with some remote hours each week. Suggested salary range is $74K-$78K. Link to posting: appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/45013

"This is the first math class I've taken where I don't feel stupid." - heard in my class today 🥰 (Last time—prob ever—I'm teaching a stats course, and this is really my only learning objective. That everyone comes to believe that they can do stats. That stats is just story-telling with numbers.)

Does anyone have or have access to this? “Innovation” Discourse and the Neoliberal University: Top Ten Reasons to Abolish Disruptive Innovation. From the book Mutant Neoliberalism Christopher Newfield

Today in my Teaching and Student Success Lab (TASSL), my students will be completing an analysis of student evals for an instructor (something we provide by request). But of course I'm not going to let this opportunity to cause good trouble go to waste. 😈

Now feels like a good time to say that my husband and I entered our wedding reception to “Welcome to Atlanta.” 🤣

Look y’all. I don’t care a bit about sportsball. But the first official commercial of this sports match was for a freakin’ musical, and that feels like a win.🪄

If you saw a list of faculty/ed development offerings and one of the sections on that list was "Courses" what would you expect those offerings would consist of? And how would those offerings be different from other things on that list? Would a week-long course design institute go there?

Back from the beach & ready for dry January, meaning a sabbatical from alcohol & all social media for at least the next month. If you need me, text, email, or messenger. And maybe don’t expect a speedy response on any of those cause I’m working on turning down the noise and turning up the signal.✌🏻

I don't get to put up my out-of-office responder till next Friday, but I *really* want to say something like, "Do not expect an email response until January 2nd, because there is no such thing as an educational development emergency." 😬

I will never understand people who dump on “grade grubbing” students. Grade grubbing is a very logical reaction to the very illogical system that students are subjected to.

And with that, I just submitted my last set of grades EVER for the Intro to School Psych course I've taught for 10 years. I have one more course to teach in that grad program in the Spring, and then I am shifting over fully to ed dev and teaching first-year seminars. What a ride!

I am obsessed with students who write in their real voices. Who literally type stuff like "Oops, we are now 2 pages in and I am going to finally address the prompt." It's such a joyful validation of my approach, because they wouldn't be so real if they were afraid I'd penalize them for it.

I was talking through a frustration with a good friend yesterday, and she said such a good thing: “Capitalism depends on misalignment. It requires that people are unaware of misalignments between values and behaviors and that they push ahead anyways.” 🙌🏻

For those following along, it took a hot minute, but we were able to get both the salary and remote work explanation added to the ad for our new Faculty Development position. (And remember, we have more coming in different areas, but w/ similar salaries). appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/43487

As I mentioned previously, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success is GROWING! First up is this position, with more to follow. Come work with us! appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/43487

"With 362,094 minutes logged on our site, you were one of our top .0001% WebMDers in the world. Congratulations! You’re a certified Advanced Stage User. We can tell that you really, really, really care about your health."

"Does your child have any special needs?" "An audience."

Ditto this, but for college students. I think people forget that WE MADE ALL OF THIS so we can UNMAKE ALL OF THIS.

In my 1st semester of college teaching, I taught a selected topics course on stuff I know about. To my complete surprise, the students were *deeply affected* by it & told me their lives would have been different if they had taken that class as a freshman. I committed then to make that a reality. 1/

NO Grammarly, I do NOT want to change "y'all" to "you all." That piece of my vocabulary is curated and intentional, thankyouverymuch.

100% of my Teaching & Student Success Lab (TASSL)students have reported they are coming back next semester. Even though they already have enough research credit & even though some are graduating. AND we're growing by 60% w/ new members. Just students helping teachers. We're on to something here! 😁

Capitalist productivity culture is a trip y'all. I've spent the whole morning preparing data from a student well-being survey that my research lab will use in a thematic analysis later today. Students using real data to learn skills. Producing a real analysis to help programs improve teaching. 1/2

For almost 17 years my friend Liz Hammer has had her dream job as a center director. This spring she is stepping away to teach psychology full-time. Want to work with a fabulous team at a mission-drive university located in the heart of New Orleans? Consider this job:  jobs.xula.edu/postings/2872

I know that small group feedback processes can be exhausting, but it really is so fun when I'm able to tie a bunch of disparate student comments together in the moment and I say, "so tell me, is this the main thing?" and the whole class excitedly exhales a "yes!" Like I'm a genius or something. 😆

In case anyone needs a permission slip to show up differently to work today post- #POD23, here it is. Because if you felt any magic last week, you’ll probably need to show up differently to hold onto it. Maybe less “productivity” and more care?Maybe less doing and more being? ♥️

From the audience at the #POD23 anchor session… the idea of amplifying “relational leadership” AS leadership. That this touchy-feely version of leadership IS rigorous, effective leadership. That right there explains any gap I ever feel between what I do and what the system expects. 😭

#POD23 friends, I’m writing a blog post for CETL about the conference, and I’ve been asking my team every day to characterize their takeaway for that day in one word or phrase. So, let me know: how would you sum up your takeaway(s) from POD in one word, phrase, or short sentence?

While it's true that "karaoke Lindsay" is the real Lindsay, so is the deeply emotional one who is committed to building spaces in our workplaces that align to our deepest values. Work feels better when it comes out of who we *are.* Talking with Jordan Troisi about that today in 306 at 9:30! #POD23

Did anyone get a picture of me doing PowerPoint karaoke? That was the most joy I’ve felt in a long time and want to mark to moment. I’m so thankful I have a place to *do me.* #pod23

Listening to Lorgia García Peña at #POD23 was like church. I didn't realize till I was sitting there how much I needed to be "degaslighted" about the way I view the work of teaching and learning. Of course I'm always feeling wrong. To the system I *am* wrong. That is a feature, not a bug. 1/2

In @lindsaymasland.bsky.social et. al's session on positioning the CTLs as disruptors and a takeaway so far is that CTLs, even when not explicitly invited to be in leadership conversations, can insert themselves into critical campus dialogues by sharing guidance broadly. #pod23

Love the focus on transparency and boundaries from @lindsaymasland.bsky.social and E. Shelley Reid www.chronicle.com/article/stud...

Alright, time to get (at least temporarily) serious about this Blue Sky situation. Is there a good app for this on my phone? I've just been doing it from a browser, and I just taught myself to make a feed in Skyline but that was all on my laptop. Do I still do browser on a phone?

@derekbruff.bsky.social said I could get Ravenclaw points if I made a #POD2023 feed. I am a total Bsky newb, but Ravenclaw points were on the line, so here ya go: bsky.app/profile/did:... Ranvenclaws will do anything for points. Because none of us were ever in ungrading classrooms as students. 😆

Hey #POD23! I'm here and I'm queer! And because professional photos are misleading, this is what I look like right now, plus ANIMAL PRINT PANTS. So come up and say hi!

Hey #POD23 folks . . . I am participating in two sessions this year and would love to have you stop by! Please come think and dream *otherwise* with us.