Joan Monahan Watson

A seasoned educator with over two decades of teaching and leadership experience, Joan has taught students in grades 6–12 and at R1 institutions, espousing pedagogies that support learner-centered, inquiry-based, and self-directed learning environments. Her research interests include the impact of professional and faculty development in K–20 education; self-efficacy in team-based interdisciplinary teaching and learning environments; and ethnographic analyses of assessment practices in education. Joan’s newest book is "Learning with AI: The K–12 Teacher’s Guide to a New Era of Human Learning" (Hopkins Press, 2024). She serves as an administrative director in Virginia Tech’s Department of Computer Science.