Teaching
My teaching is grounded in inquiry, thinking, and relationships. I create learning environments where students feel valued, learn to engage with multiple perspectives, and develop the confidence and curiosity to make sense of a complex world. I help students develop the human capacities that technology cannot replace—curiosity, judgment, empathy, imagination, and the ability to think deeply with others. I also encourage students to become comfortable with uncertainty, recognizing that meaningful learning begins with questions that do not have easy answers.
Media Studies & Digital Literacy
I help students become thoughtful, critical participants in an increasingly complex media environment. Through inquiry-based learning, my students explore and understand how media are created, circulated, and shaped, and how algorithmic systems and AI increasingly play a significant role in these processes. Students learn to question sources, recognize different perspectives and interests, and develop the judgment needed to navigate our digital information environment. I encourage students to consider questions of agency, ethics, power, and responsibility as technology becomes increasingly embedded in everyday life.
English Language Arts
I bring extensive experience teaching English Language Arts across elementary, middle, and secondary grades. My approach emphasizes inquiry, communication, and the development of students’ own voices. I create opportunities for students to engage deeply with literature and language while connecting texts to their cultural experiences and the wider world. Through literary exploration and creation, students learn about texts, the world, and themselves.
Social Studies
I am an experienced social studies teacher with particular expertise in human geography, American and world history, and historical thinking. I encourage students to investigate the past through multiple perspectives, ask thoughtful questions about evidence and interpretation, make meaningful connections between historical events and contemporary issues, and become more civically engaged humans. Through the Thinking Historically for Canada's Future project, I work as part of a team developing a pedagogical historical thinking model for K-12 teachers and students.
Courses Taught
K-12 Courses
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English Language Arts (Grades 6 to 12)
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Advanced Public Speaking (Grade 12)
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English as a Second Language (Grades 1 to 12)
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Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography
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Advanced Placement (AP) World History
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United States History: Pre-Colonial Peoples to the Civil War (Grades 5, 7 and 9)
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United States History: Civil War to the Present (Grades 8 and 10)
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Texas State History (Grade 4)
K-12 Guest Lectures
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Advanced Placement (AP) Research, Collingwood School, West Vancouver, BC. Qualitative methods in research. (2025, September 15)
University Courses
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Media Studies Across the Curriculum: EDCP 481, The University of British Columbia (UBC)
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Digital Pedagogies & AI, Inquiry Seminars I, II, and III: EDUC 450, 451, and 452, UBC
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Elementary Social Studies Methods: EDCP 331, UBC
University Teaching Assistantships
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Media & Technology Studies: Review of Research in Curriculum & Pedagogy: EDCP 508, UBC
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Working with Data: MGMT 2606, Dalhousie University
University Guest Lectures
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Contemporary Issues in Social Studies: EDCP 332, UBC. Making artificial intelligence intelligible. (2025, November 17)
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Technology Education, Inquiry Seminar III: EDUC 452, UBC. AI and education: A relational approach. (2025, June 5)
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Contemporary Issues in Social Studies: EDCP 332, UBC. Critical media literacy in the age of AI. (2024, November 4)
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Seminar in the Teaching of ICT: Critical Thinking in the Age of Social Media: EDCP 570, UBC. Agency in the age of algorithms. (2023, February 9)