I've taught for 27 years — middle grades, pre-K, English language learners, high school, college, and adult learners already in the work world. I've worked two decades with high school students, most extensively with AP English Lit, creative writing, journalism, and Theory of Knowledge, a critical thinking course in the International Baccalaureate Program. Some of my most successful students have gone on to Harvard, Princeton, MIT — and prestigious careers in medicine, broadcasting, law, journalism, engineering, social justice work, the arts, education — even astrophysics. And some of my students have thrilled to be the first in their family to attend college.

I've also worked extensively with new migrants to the US, transitioning into a new culture and  working to gain English proficiency. I've worked with newly developing writers still learning to trust their own ideas and working to say what they mean effectively. And I've worked with reluctant readers who just 'weren't into' reading — or even professed to thoroughly hate reading — and I've enjoyed the project of helping them connect with texts, to find ideas that matter to them in what they read.