I’m a Social Science and Mathematics teacher and curriculum developer — with over 12 years experience teaching, tutoring, coaching, directing, and mentoring students.

About Me

I am a fervent and highly qualified education professional, skilled at developing and presenting curricula across a variety of fields, including Mathematics, Robotics, Engineering, and Social Science.

I have implemented these courses in a variety of unique educational settings, ranging from traditional in-person classrooms to entirely virtual spaces, in both public and private schools.

My teaching philosophy revolves around empowering all students to become motivated antiracist leaders and active critical thinkers, preparing them to analyze all sources and situations through an ever-present equity lens.

My Philosophy of Education

Specialties

Ancient and Classical Civilizations, global

Europe, post-Roman to Modern

United States, post-Civil War to Modern

Robotics and Engineering Design

Algebra-based Physics

Calculus-based Physics

Algebra 1 and 2

Geometry

Trigonometry

Pre-Calculus

Calculus

Statistics and Data Analysis

Exemplars

lectures, lessons, and assignments with student work samples

Featured

Reading Art: Learning about Society from Paintings

Within my unit on the Renaissance is one of my favorite assignments, created long before me by one of my colleagues and many times over modified and tweaked throughout my years using it, our Renaissance Art Analysis Presentation.

Historical Identity Groups: Representation in a Survey Course

To facilitate more authentic inclusion and representation in the survey course I teach on United States History, this year I created Historical Identity Groups for specialized study. Each group is planning a Teach-in when they take over the class for a day.

Teaching Research; Teaching Writing

Second semester Honors World History includes a formal research project. Each step of the way, I have designed check-ins and scaffolded work to support students in their individual research process.

Teaching and Learning Physics: Being a Long Term Sub

During second semester 2018, I stepped in to serve as the long term substitute for the Advanced Physics and Engineering course. I created curriculum on the topics of electricity and circuits and supplemented classroom work with applications of past and current material through Rube Goldberg machines and student-led lessons with 3rd graders.

When Math Meets History: Great Depression Data Analysis

United States History activity analyzing economic data from the 1920s and 1930s to understand the impact of the Great Depression and New Deal

How To: A Systems of Equations Project

Accelerated Algebra I example project assessing systems of equations

Reconstruction: A Video Lecture

An example video lecture from my virtual classroom during COVID-19