Learning should be fun, meaningful, and co-created with learners (students). Spaces for learning should embody the practices and places we hope to create in our professional work. For me, this means valuing life experiences and practice wisdom, trying on co-determination, committing to practicing anti-racism and anti-colonialism in ways of gathering, talking, and working, and a steadfast ethos of care, inter-dependency, and community. It is premised, as much as possible in institutional forms of education or social work practice, on an ethic of invitation: what kind of world do we want to create as we gather in this moment? How do you want to be part of it?
I see teaching as deeply interconnected with research and engagement. I seek to co-create inclusive classroom spaces as communities of practice engaged in active, experiential, and hybrid learning; that value lifelong and lifewide learning experiences; and that embody an ethic of care for my students as colleagues, as intellectuals and activists, and as developing professionals. Since there is no teaching without learning (a lesson I’ve learned from @IleneDawn), learning is the primary focus in my classrooms.
Fall 2022 – Current
SWK 500 – Human Behavior in the Social Environment
SWK 530 – Generalist Integrated Field Seminar
Spring 2019 – Spring 2022
YOST 3032/5032 – Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers
Fall 2018
Ways of Knowing in Youth Development Leadership: Using Research and Evaluation to Support Community
Fall 2016
GRAD 8200 Multicultural Inclusive Learning and Teaching
Spring 2015
GRAD 8200 Multicultural Inclusive Learning and Teaching
Fall 2013
YoST 4315/5314 Youthwork in Schools
GRAD 8101 Teaching in Higher Education (Teaching Intern)
Spring 2013
PA 3961 / OLPD 3302 Leadership, You, and Your Community
Spring 2012
PA 1961W / EdPA 1301W Personal Leadership in the University
PA 3961 / OLPD 3302 Leadership, You, and Your Community
Directed Study for 2 undergraduate students
Fall 2011
PA 1961W / EdPA 1301W Personal Leadership in the University
PA 3971 / OLPD 3306 Leadership Minor: Field Experience
Directed Study for 3 undergraduate students
Spring 2011
PA 1961W / EdPA 1301W Personal Leadership in the University
Fall 2010
PA 1961W / EdPA 1301W Personal Leadership in the University