An educator specializes in serving linguistically diverse and marginalized communities with interest in developing educational programs to enhance educational success for children and adults. Exceptional in creating partnerships with different educational entities. Knowledgeable with the educational systems and updated changes. Knowledge of public schools and their method of operation. Extensive experience conducting an assessment to […]
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Sarah Gotowka is a practicing textile artist and instructor. She has been weaving since 2005, and has been growing natural dyes since 2010. She received her BFA in Fibers and Material Studies from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007, and her MFA in Fibers and Material Practices from Concordia University in Montreal in 2013. […]
Teaching Philosophy When I ask myself what is valuable about teaching, my answers tend toward unabashedly utopian ideals and values represented by collaborative and conversational learning, rethinking and critiquing stagnant conventions of thought, encouraging polyvalent exchanges of ideas, and finding nourishment in the broadly ranging forms of language that are the instruments of our heterogeneous […]
Teaching Philosophy My teaching philosophy centers on honoring each student’s agency, curiosity, andsingular creative voice. My pedagogy emphasizes engaging with history and ourcontemporary world, and the rich artistic traditions that precede and surround us.Centering BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ artists is a matter of course. Research is keyto my process, and I model for students digging […]
In the words of President Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world!” As a product of the public-school system that failed to engage me culturally in the daily curriculum, I truly believe that it takes a village with a social justice foundation to educate a child […]
Michael J. Love is an interdisciplinary tap dance artist, scholar, and educator. His embodied research intermixes Black queer feminist theory and aesthetics with a rigorous practice that critically engages the Black cultural past as it imagines Black futurity. Currently, Love is a 2021-23 Princeton University Arts Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts. In […]
Phillippe Diederich is the author of the novels Diamond Park (Dutton, forthcoming in 2022); Playing for the Devil’s Fire (Cinco Puntos Press, 2016), which was named the 2017 Best Young Adult novel by the Texas Institute of Letters and 2017 Young Adult Library Services Association Best Fiction for Young Adults; and Sofrito (Cinco Puntos Press, […]
Education MA in Education, Culturally Responsive Early Childhood Education, Goddard College BA in Business Administration and Finance, Evergreen State College
Kris Hege is a doctoral candidate at Union Institute and University with dual concentrations in Education Studies and Humanities & Culture. Her dissertation research includes a designated emphasis on Education for Social Justice, specifically in progressive and popular pedagogy, feminist studies, and intersections of academia and activist movements. She has also completed a Graduate Certificate […]
Teaching Philosophy As a 2006 graduate of the program myself, I have seen and felt firsthand what makes Goddard Graduate Institute such a unique and invaluable experience. This journey into “the heart of the mind” is all at once an encounter with the world and an encounter with the self, one which results in remarkable […]