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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 18

Finally!!

New title: Assistant Teaching Professor 👩🏻‍🏫

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · Jun 11

"Liking is not a feeling. It is a *set of practices* that leads to a feeling"

Really great and thought-provoking talk from Asou Inoue this morning. #TheGradingConference

The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 11

From our keynote by Asao Inoue: "We need ways to like our students and their writing." #TheGradingConference

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 12

...and @youtoobio.bsky.social presented results showing that using multiple grading schemes especially benefits students excluded based on their ethnicity or race in STEM courses. Also, this doesn't negatively affect their performance in subsequent courses in a series! #AltGrading

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 12

In yesterday's session "Special Topics: Equity" at #TheGradingConference, Robert Erdmann shared research showing equitable outcomes of dropped grade policies...

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 11

Three awesome talks in "Research: Student Perceptions" at #TheGradingConference.

Across different institutions and even types of #AltGrading, students GET IT. They see how alt grading aligns more with true learning, and their views of it only become more positive after experiencing it.

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 11

The idea of "tolerance for error" comes from the original Universal Design framework (not UDL) - the idea that a well-designed item or space should be easy to use and resistant to people using it incorrectly and causing any kind of issue.

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 11

Session "Special topics: Neurodiversity" at #TheGradingConference:

@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 11

Learning the details of transcription is helpful, but what's WAY more helpful is learning what experiments were needed to get us here and how to analyze that data.

Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 11

Really struck me, as I am a huge process-knitter and could mainly care less about what I'm actually making. 😅

Thinking about how to communicate this idea more overtly to students in my bio classes:

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 11

Semi-live skeeting #TheGradingConference 2025:

Asao Inoue Keynote: 🤯
What really resonated with me: He said he really wanted to get students thinking about the PROCESS of their writing over the PRODUCT of their writing.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · Jun 10

Excited to hang out online with 900 of my closest friends at #TheGradingConference starting tomorrow!

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 10

@thegradingconference.com

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 10

Just in time for the start of 2025’s #TheGradingConference tomorrow! (And yes, I stitched this during last year’s conference. 😂) #BreakFakeRules

Cross stitch with “Break fake rules” in block letters overlaid with lines depicting increasingly larger glass shatter patterns.

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bahahahaha. Voluntold!

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Apr 28

Happy 13th wedding anniversary and 20 years together to my ride or die! Longer together than apart 💕

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 17

My husband finally convinced me to get some Bose (I thought the $ was too self-indulgent) and so glad I did!!

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Neil Abrams @neilabrams.bsky.social · Feb 16

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.

Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · Feb 16

"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"

Something something in advance

www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority | CNN Politics

Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rel...

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 17

Pattern (my own work): www.stitchfiddle.com/c/sfjf1y-8qs...

Stitch Fiddle

Stitch Fiddle is an online crochet, knitting and cross stitch pattern maker.

www.stitchfiddle.com

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 17

Partially finished cross stitch of a dumpster fire. Over the photo are the words “Dumpster fire is shaping up nicely lolsob.”

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 16

I am just contemplating retreating ever deeper in the Enchanted Forest.

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 15

Oh, there is SO MUCH more tea. Will have to tell you privately, lol.

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 15

100%. I have been bolstered recently by @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social’s entreaty not to obey in advance and @drew-lewis.com’s reminder that if ppl aren’t complaining about you right now, you might not be doing enough. Love this community. 💜

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 15

They said it was racist and sexist.

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 15

Someone filed an official complaint this week to our Office of Equal Opportunity about this cross stitch outside my office door.

Cross stitch with “I’ve got 99 problems and white heteronormative patriarchy is basically all of them”

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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Feb 15

Thank you, Rissa! This is a good strategy.

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