This is my tenth year as an educator – I have taught English, Math, and History. I have an Ed.M. in Instructional Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where I also won the Phyllis Strimling Award for my contributions to the education of women in society. I also have a B.A. in Political Science and South Asian Studies from Columbia. From 2018-2023 I worked at the Avasara Academy in Pune, where I taught English and Global Perspectives and Research. I have also worked in teacher professional development and spent the 2022-2023 academic year as a school leader. Prior to moving to Pune, I worked as a Teach for India Fellow in Mumbai, where I taught 85 students English, Social Studies, and Mathematics over the course of their 8th and 9th grade years. As a Fellow, I wrote about my experience and my challenges here. Before the Fellowship, I tutored writing and worked as an overseas college counsellor in Singapore.
I believe that there is so much we don’t know about truly excellent, high-rigour, empathetic and empowering pedagogy. What works and why it does is something I am constantly figuring out, in part through writing on this platform.
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