Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Studies at Sonoma State University. I am incredibly grateful to work with a collaborative, innovative, and creative department who support one another and work as a team dedicated to instantiating Social Justice in the education of young children.
Between 2014 and 2019, I taught multiple capacities at Stanford University:
I also taught in introductory teaching and diversity class at The Alder Graduate School of Education in the summer of 2019.
- I co-taught and TAed for both elementary and secondary candidates in the Stanford Teacher Education Program
- I was the TA for the leadership seminar for POLS (Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies) Master's students in the Graduate School of Education
- I solo-taught the course Introduction to the Profession of Teaching, a highly selective course for Stanford undergraduates
I also taught in introductory teaching and diversity class at The Alder Graduate School of Education in the summer of 2019.
Before my doctoral work at Stanford, I spent five years as a fourth grade special education teacher. My students had average or above-average IQ, but struggled with speech and language, including textual and listening comprehension. These incredible people helped me to think about comprehension in new ways and to see the world through their eyes. Their ways of speaking, listening, and knowing will always drive my research and my passion for giving students more opportunities to flourish.
In addition to classroom teaching, I also led a math tutoring program for low-income and Emergent Bilingual students who had no math-based disabilities but who were more than one year behind in mathematics instruction. Through this program, I helped adult citizens grow into expert tutors and helped students discover new ways to think about math. |
Finally, I spent time leading a kindergarten classroom as well as designing and running various summer programs, imaginative play therapy, and comprehension-based private tutoring.
In addition to the teaching I do for Stanford listed above, I continue my teaching and work in classrooms through work in elementary classrooms related to my dissertation, through leading text-based discussion groups, through assessments of early childhood learners, and with private tutoring clients in elementary and middle school.