Building a class ethos of care and respect is essential to ensure each person in class feels comfortable participating fully and genuinely. To cultivate such learning environments in classrooms and online spaces, I practice located accountability as a fundamental commitment to design and facilitate courses in ways that are accountable to students and the localized contexts in which class takes place. My practical application of Angela Haas’ located accountability is shaped by the Buddhist concept sangha which is usually translated as “community,” but also connotes “refuge” or sustaining space within which community members feel comfortable enough to allow their best nature to be present. While located accountability centers the human needs of students, sangha/refuge actively attends to them by situating coursework as inseparable from the real world, promoting inclusion through accessible design, and drawing from students’ existing knowledge.

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Teaching Experience

This is a list of courses I have taught as instructor of record. Click the links for representative course syllabi and sample assignments.

Purdue University

Southwest Colorado Community College*

PHI 112: Ethics – Syllabus	Spring 2017
PHI 111: Introduction to Philosophy – Syllabus	Fall 2016
PHI 112: Ethics	Spring 2016

*Southwest Colorado Community College is now called Pueblo Community College Southwest. All courses taught used Polycom technology meaning I taught face to face at one campus while simultaneously broadcasting video, audio to a satellite campus.

San Francisco State University

PHIL 130: Political and Social Philosophy – Syllabus	Fall 2014
PHIL 110: Introduction to Critical Thinking – Syllabus	Fall 2014
PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy – Syllabus	Spring 2014
PHIL 110: Introduction to Critical Thinking	Fall 2013