Writing Samples
I never loved writing through high school like I loved math and science, so I was a bit reluctant heading into Hamilton College to face the famous writing requirement. From my freshman year course called Adventure Writing onward, however, I learned to love the drafting and editing processes and today I enjoy the opportunity to put my thinking and research to words.
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In this essay for a course called Moral Leadership I consider the moral landscape that educators face and then sketch a vision for three guiding concepts needed in educators’ ethical toolkits, drawing inspiration in turn from Heifitz’s leadership framework, longtermism, and Lear’s radical hope. I conclude that educators navigating a challenging ethical landscape must orient towards being adaptive, imaginative, and radically hopeful.
I recently co-authored for the Harvard Graduate School of Education student magazine a reflective piece of short fiction to explore my own experiences with teacher-student relationships under the threat of climate change. My work is on p. 18-19 and 24-25 here.
In Reshaping Teacher-Student Relationships Amidst Crises of the Anthropocene (based on work in a course with Dr. Naomi Oreskes) I propose that teacher training and teachers' reflective practices and actions need to more critically assess and prepare for the ways in which the crises of the Anthropocene will undermine traditional pillars of strong and productive teacher-student relationships like trust, respect, and epistemic authority.