Teaching
I’m a creative and perceptive educator with ten years of full-time classroom experience and expertise in teaching literary analysis, analytical and creative writing, and discussion skills. I also recently received my qualification to teach Senior Visual Arts in Ontario! Please contact me for my full resume.
This year, I am thrilled to be the College Essay Specialist and Education Consultant at JLG Education Services, helping students recognize and refine their ideas and voice. I enjoy learning about my students’ stories and identities, and I appreciate that the college essay gives them a chance to find a cohesive narrative in parts of their life experience.
I’m currently working one-on-one to help students recognize and refine their ideas and voice.
As an English teacher, I help students develop their analysis and communication skills and build curriculum that fosters joy in learning and empathy for others.
I was an English teacher at a high-performing public school in Massachusetts for ten years. In my time at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, I developed students’ reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills—at a breadth of grades and levels—within a classroom community that emphasized student voice, concern for social justice, and rigorous examination of literature and life. I designed lessons, units, and yearlong courses about writing, theory and literary criticism, and contemporary social issues that are still offered in the school’s English Department. I also mentored new teachers and coached over 450 juniors and seniors through the college essay writing process.
I’ve trained through formal degree programs, ongoing professional development, and extensive hands-on experience in university writing centers and the high school classroom.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in English Literatures and Cultures from Brown University, from which I graduated with honors in Creative Nonfiction Writing (2010). I returned there to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching for Secondary English Language Arts (2012). Throughout my time at Brown, I worked as a Rose Writing Fellow and Writing Center Associate providing support to undergraduate and graduate student writers.
In 2016-2017, I completed a fellowship through the Globalizing the Classroom program at Harvard University developing curriculum for teaching global journalism to high school seniors.
Some of the other courses I’ve taken throughout my time teaching have focused on neurodiversity, gender, differentiated instruction, and Universal Design for Learning. In the summer of 2023, I also took a wonderful course through Queens University to become qualified to teach Visual Arts at the senior level in Ontario.
I’ve developed many of my most important teaching skills working directly with my students, who have shown me most of what I know about how learning happens.