Joan Middendorf

middendo at iu dot edu

Joan Middendorf is Adjunct Professor in Educational Leadership at Indiana University and consultant on Decoding the Disciplines, which she developed with David Pace to address real difficulties students face not knowing how to deal with unfamiliar ideas and mental models. Joan and Leah Shopkow published a practical guide to Decoding: Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks. In the History Learning Project (Diaz, Middendorf, Pace, and Shopkow) Joan specialized in addressing emotional bottlenecks, receiving top research prizes in SOTL and educational development. In her Disrupting work, she led faculty communities on inclusive teaching, implicit bias, and making disciplinary thinking more available. She guest edits the Decoding/Disrupting volume of Transformative Dialogues Journal. Joan is a member of the Monroe County NAACP and enjoys camping and kayaking in her spare time.

ESC Writing Group

1. "What will this writing group make meaningful for you?"
2. a)         Interacting with different people who have new/different ideas. b)        The wiki is needed as an enduring resource, organizing the curriculum of Decoding and Disrupting—all the bottlenecks, the lessons, the SIG and educational development ideas, publications, videos, websites, etc. Maybe we can indicate if they are useful for beginners, intermediate, advanced Decoders/Disruptors.