I have a syllabus Easter egg that gives extra credit (or a late pass for a response paper depending on the class) if students take a selfie in front of my office door and email it to me by the end of the first week of classes. Office hours visits went up bc they knew where I was! And saw the snacks.

Friday afternoon course prep for the week ahead. Plan grading and mindless tasks for the time between classes on the days you teach (ahead of time so you don’t habe to decide in the moment). Go outside between classes, even just a lap around the outside of the building.

A-line dress, cardigan, low-top chucks.

You could always decompress with some natural disasters. Johnstown Flood. Children’s Blizzard.

A few years ago I got an email from Netflix with the subject “Spending Friday night alone?” that read “we think you’ll like these” followed by a selection of holocaust documentaries. Which is to say, I find this conundrum relatable.

This is excellent! You can also do this with “Concatenate” in an Excel spreadsheet if that’s how you’re doing the grading itself, and upload that cell as the “feedback” for the assignment in whatever LMS you use.

Davidson is super close to UNC Charlotte and I would love to meet you if you have time!

This is the real hidden curriculum.

Oh also! Right tab stops for aligning dates on your CV.

I didn’t learn CTRL+T will hanging indent your whole reference list for you until I had tenure 🙃

Do you know about using the size and position dialog box in PowerPoint to make your poster elements perfectly sized and aligned because it is my favorite and I try to evangelize it to all my students.

This is a *phenomenal* article and I can’t wait to put it on the syllabus the next time I teach abnormal psych.

(It was a class on “the science of happiness.”)

Something like this? 😂