Joan develops curricula for the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways, a transformative redesign to modernize entry-level college mathematics programs through working with states, systems, universities, and colleges. She leads the development of co-requisite materials for DCMP’s Quantitative Reasoning course. In addition, Joan develops and facilitates online professional training sessions and represents the DCMP at workshops and conferences.
Before joining the Dana Center, Joan taught at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, serving as an adjunct instructor, tenure-track instructor, and professor. During her time at Clark, she taught a range of precollege math courses, College Algebra, College Trigonometry, Math in Society (quantitative reasoning), Finite Math, and Calculus I, II, and III. Joan created and taught several workshops and a 10-week professional development course in how to incorporate active learning in community college classes, served on several campus-wide committees, and served as department scheduler.