Teaching
As a teacher educator, I believe that my role is to help future teachers center social justice and equity into their practice so that they can engage in anti-racism inside and outside of their classrooms. Across my teaching, I have students focus on issues of power in schooling and societies in order to help them to learn (and unlearn) the ways we have been socialized to believe certain things about individuals and groups.
I also believe that future teachers need to have a clear understanding of how their own identities (such as race, gender, class, and sexuality), intersect with power within schools and society. Through my teaching, I find ways for students to critically investigate their identities and lived experiences through the lenses of power and opportunity in relation to schools and teaching.
Finally, I believe that I am constantly growing as an educator alongside my students. Freire’s (1993) concept of humanization drives my instruction. That is, like my students, I am in a constant state of becoming, and I continuously interrogate my multiple identities and their relation to the power I have at the front of the classroom.
University Teaching Experience
Michigan State University
TE 101: Social Foundations of Justice and Equity in Education
TE 102: Pedagogy and Politics of Justice in Education'
UGS 102: Contested Spaces: Learning to Change the World (Study abroad in Costa Rica)
TE 807: Professional Development & Inquiry (Masters—Online)
TE 870: Curriculum Design, Development, and Deliberation in Schools (Masters—Online)
TE 818: Curriculum in its Social Context (Masters—Online)
TE 825: Diverse Learners and Learning Subject Matter (Masters—Online)
TE 250: Human Diversity, Power, and Opportunity in Social Institutions
TE 201A: Special Topic in Urban Education
TE 501 & 502: Internship in Teaching Diverse Learners
TE 352: Immigration Language & Culture
Western New Mexico University
EDUC 503: Action Research
EDUC 570: Elementary Methods and Curriculum
EDUC 505/507: Exploratory Field Experience
EDUC 536: Classroom Management
EDUC 573: Elementary Methods and Curriculum II
EDUC 572: Elementary and Curriculum I
K-12 Teaching Supervision
Michigan State University
Field Instructor
As a field instructor, I was responsible for supervising 7 elementary student teaching interns during their year-long internship in three schools across two years.
Western New Mexico University
Director of Field Experience
I was responsible for observing alternative certification teachers in their classroom placements as part of their MAT program requirements. I was responsible for 19 teachers in grades K-12 across two years.
K-12 Teaching Experience
Gallup-McKinley County Schools,
4th & 5th grade teacher, Indian Hills Elementary, Gallup, NM, 2008-2012
United States Peace Corps
1st-6th grade English teacher, San Jose de Buena Vista, Antique, Philippines, 2006-2008
The Quarry Lane School
K-5 After School & Summer Camp Coordinator, Pleasanton, CA, 2004-2006
Gratiot-Isabella RESD
9th-12th grade German Teacher, Ithaca, MI, 2002-2004
German I
German II