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DECODING the DISCIPLINES

The 2024 Decoding the Disciplines Conference: Adapting Decoding for the Next Generation

Poster for the 2024 Decoding Conference

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.

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Registration fee is $175.
This includes a reception, lunch, snacks and conference costs.

Register for the 2024 Decoding Conference

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

Location

The conference will be held on the IU Bloomington campus at the School of Education:
201 N Rose Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aNwGzDWctyETA7Vm6


A preliminary conference schedule and other details will be available later in the summer of 2024.

About this Conference

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!

Schedule

Thursday, October 31, 2024

5:30P - 7:00P

Welcome Reception (Atrium)
Meet for food and open bar  

Ice Breaker Activity – Joan Middendorf
Poster Presentations – Decoding Transitions to College Project

Friday, November 1, 2024

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

Introductions and Keynote (Atrium)

Introductions by Rebecca Itow
The Challenge of Taking Decoding Mainstream with David Pace
Decoding Journal with Joan Middendorf
What you need to do today with Tara Darcy and Erika Lee

9:45AM – 10:00AM

Break

10:00AM – 11:00AM

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)

New to Decoding Session: Create a bottleneck lesson plan.
Tara Darcy, J. Duncan, Erika Lee  

Workshop B
(Room 1225)

Common Ground: Situating the Decoding Model as Pedagogical Theory.
Laura Cruz, Joan Middendorf

11:05PM – 12:05PM

Breakout Session 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)

Continued: Create a bottleneck lesson plan.
Tara Darcy, J. Duncan, Erika Lee  
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

Breakout Session 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)

The Decoding Interview. David Pace

Workshop B (Room 1225)

Inspiring Research Engagement through a Decoding Approach to Co-Curricular Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
Dulce Alonso, Ibrahim Bawa, Alice Kurima Newberry, Jasmine Wright, Heather Wright

2:00PM – 3:00PM

Breakout Session 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)

Continued: The Decoding Interview. David Pace

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)

Committee Reports

4:40PM – 5:00PM

Concluding Activity (Auditorium)

Find Dinner Friends

Saturday, November 2, 2024

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Coffee Bar (Atrium)

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Breakout Session 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) (backup Auditorium)

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)
Using Decoding to Evaluate Teaching: An Interactive Demonstration using Cats, Art and You Tube.
Erika Lee and Jenny El Shamy

Workshop B (Room 1250)
A Decoding Community needs a Decoding Wiki!
Peter Riegler

Workshop C (Room 1225)Learning to Embrace Emotional Obstacles.
Jennifer Lale

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

Hotel Options

IMU Biddle Hotel (heart of campus)

www.imu.indiana.eduFor Reservations: 1-800-209-8145 or 1-812-856-6381
Biddle Hotel & Conference Center

Courtyard Marriott Bloomington (traditional, downtown)

$199 plus tax

Hyatt Place Bloomington (modern, downtown)

217 W Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, IN 
$129 plus tax

Other Hotel Options

Inexpensive option
Travelodge by Wyndham Bloomington
Reasonable rate
SpringHill Suites Bloomington
Bed and Breakfast
Grant Street Inn
Another Downtown Option
Graduate Bloomington

Search for Hotels Near the Conference

There are many other options, including a selection of AirBnB options in town.
You should choose what fits your budget.

Travel

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.

  • If you are attending only the Decoding Conference, it is easiest to fly in and out of Indianapolis (IND).
  • If you are attending ISSOTL beforehand, you may find it much easier to fly into Louisville and out of Indianapolis.
  • When you register, we will ask you to indicate if you will want transportation between French Lick and Bloomington. We will do our best to provide you with an option for that transfer.
  • Need a shuttle to or from the Indianapolis Airport?Go Express Travel

Questions?

Email us at decoding.web@gmail.com