A FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
DECODING the DISCIPLINES
Friday-Saturday, November 1-2, 2024
Bloomington, Indiana
with an opening reception Thursday night
Format — In addition to regular sessions in which participants present their work with Decoding, there will be opportunities for training and to gain experience at using Decoding and Disrupting interview techniques and alternative methods for making explicit the steps that students must master to get past bottlenecks to learning.
Registration fee is $175.
This includes a reception, lunch, snacks and conference costs.
Note to International registrants: Select your country first, then the "State" field should provide options like N/A or relevant regions.
ACP teachers and Decoding Transitions to College Fellows will register here, but please check your email for how to pay / invoke the special rate
Refunds are available through September 20, 2024
The conference will be held on the IU Bloomington campus at the School of Education:
201 N Rose Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405
Accessing WIFI with Eduroam:
• If you have access to eduroam from IU or another U.S. institution, that is the preferred way to log into the
IU network. Select “eduroam” from the list of available networks and follow the login directions.
Guest WIFI:
To connect your device to the free wireless internet service for IU campus visitors:
• In your device settings, make sure wireless networking (or Wi-Fi) is turned on.
• In the list of available networks, select IU Guest.
• If your browser doesn’t open to the IU Guest page automatically, launch your browser.
• On the “IU Guest WiFi” screen, enter your email address, check the box to accept the terms of use,
and then select Connect.
We welcome both experienced and new-to-Decoding practitioners.
Workshop A on Friday is a good place to start if you are new to Decoding!
5:30P - 7:00P
Welcome Reception (Atrium)
Meet for food and cash bar
Ice Breaker Activity – Joan Middendorf
Poster Presentations – Decoding Transitions to College Project
All day:
Decoding Fellows Room – Room 1201
Break Room for All – Room 1006
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Coffee Bar (Atirum)
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Conference Opens (Atrium)
Welcome by Rebecca Itow
Keynote Address, David Pace, Where are we now? Where do we want to go?
Announcement, Joan Middendorf
Conference Logistics, Tara Darcy and Erika Lee
9:45AM – 10:00AM
Break
10:00AM – 11:00AM
Concurrent Sessions 1
Paper Presentations
(30-min each) (Room 1204)
(1) Visions of Decoded Art History.
Rosemarie Trentinella, Sarah Archino
(2) Overcoming Bottlenecks in Contemporary Black American Intensive Writing Courses: A Transformative Approach.
Nana Amoah-Ramey
Workshop A (Room 1250)
Introduction to Decoding: Create a bottleneck lesson plan.
Tara Darcy, Erika Lee
Workshop B (Room 1225)
Common Ground: Situating the Decoding Model as Pedagogical Theory.
Laura Cruz, Joan Middendorf
11:05PM – 12:05PM
Concurrent Sessions 2
Paper Presentations (30-min each) (Room 1204)
(1) Decoding reading primary literature in biology.
Megan Dunn
(2) Analyze This, Contextualize That: Decoding How Historians Read and Write about Primary Sources.
Natalie Mendoza
Workshop A (Room 1250)
Repeat: Create a bottleneck lesson plan.
Erika Lee, J. Duncan
Workshop B (Room 1225)
Privileging what is not said: Decoding dominant pedagogies and resistance to action bias.
Kathy Takayama
12:05PM – 1:00PM
Lunch (Atirum)
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Concurrent Sessions 3
Paper Presentations (30-min each) (Room 1204)
(1) Overcoming The Mechanism Bottleneck in Organic Chemistry.
D.J. Aurentz, L.E. Cruz, B.N. Robinson, I.A. Shibley
(2) Addressing the secondary/higher education chasm: Teacher candidates as student partners in decoding the disciplines research.
Kevin Covert, Ryan Dicostanzo, Emma Efing, Anthony Thompson, Jared McBrady
Workshop A (Room 1250)
Introduction to Decoding: The Decoding Interview.
David Pace, Erika Lee
Workshop B (Room 1225)
Inspiring Research Engagement through a Decoding Approach to Co-Curricular Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
Taharka Anderson, Ibrahim Bawa, Alice Kurima Newberry, Samantha Tonini, Heather Wright
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Concurrent Sessions 4
Paper Presentations (30-min each) (Room 1204)
(1) Reconciliations: scholarship and practice.
Carol Azumah Dennis
(2) Decoding Information Literacy: New Threshold Concepts for Faculty Development.
Craig Gibson, Sara Miller
Workshop A (Room 1250)
Repeat Session: Introduction to Decoding: The Decoding Interview. David Pace, Tara Darcy
Workshop B (Room 1225)
Disrupting and Decoding's Challenge: addressing bottlenecks in racism, colonialism and identity.
Lee Easton, Joan Middendorf
3:05PM – 3:20PM
Break
3:20PM – 4:40PM
Building the Decoding Community (Auditorium)
Lee Easton, Larkin Hood
4:40PM – 5:00PM
Concluding Activity (Auditorium)
Dinner with Friends Signup
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Coffee Bar (Atrium)
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Concurrent Sessions 5
Paper Presentations (Room 1250)
Decoding in the High School Science Classroom.
Sherri Nelson
Decoding Study Skills in Biology 101.
Megan Dunn
Extra Expertise in the Classroom: Decoding Students.
Christian Brig
Workshop B (Room 1225) (backup Auditorium)
Flash Decoding and Disrupting: Alternatives to the Interview.
Joan Middendorf, Miriam Barnat, Victoria Mondelli, and Pieter Riegler
10:30AM – 10:45AM
Break
10:45AM – 12:05PM
Workshop (Room 1225)
Next Gen Mash-up for Learning Games: Decode, Disrupt, Discover
Victoria Mondelli
12:05PM – 1:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Breakout Session 6
Workshop A (Room 1204)
Learning to Embrace Emotional Obstacles: “But I’m not creative!...Not a math person! …Not good at writing!”
Jennifer Lale
Workshop B (Room 1250)
A Decoding Community needs a Decoding Wiki!
Peter Riegler
Workshop C (Room 1225)
Using Decoding to Learn and to Evaluate Teaching: An Interactive Demonstration Using Cats, Art and YouTube.
Erika Lee, Jenny El ShamyLearning
2:00PM – 4:00PM
Decoding and the Future (Auditorium)
The Future of Decoding: A Dedicated Scholarly Society.
Lee Easton and Larkin Hood
Group Discussions
Closing Remarks, Rebecca Itow
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Biddle Hotel & Conference Center
$199 plus tax
217 W Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, IN
$129 plus tax
Inexpensive option
Travelodge by Wyndham Bloomington
Reasonable rate
SpringHill Suites Bloomington
Bed and Breakfast
Grant Street Inn
Another Downtown Option
Graduate Bloomington
There are many other options, including a selection of AirBnB options in town.
You should choose what fits your budget.
The conference will be held on the IU Bloomington campus at the School of Education. Further details and options for getting to the conference once you are in town will be emailed to participants upon registration.