Courses

Sara has more than five years of teaching experience in public and private institutions, including a degree granting college-in-prison program. She has designed and taught courses in English literature, composition & rhetoric, and creative writing, including:

• American Prophets: U.S. Poetry and Social Protest (Fall 2022, University of Notre Dame)

• Literature of Suffering (Summer 2022, Moreau College Initiative at Westville Penitentiary)

• Cast Out! Identity, Belonging, and Religious Difference in American Literature (Spring 2021, University of Notre Dame)

  • This course was featured by the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.

• The Art of Attention: Intermediate Poetry Writing (Fall 2020, University of Notre Dame)

• Novel Boundaries: Navigating and Marketing Postcolonial Fiction (Teaching Assistant, Fall 2020, Moreau College Initiative at Westville Penitentiary)

• Rhetoric of Origins: Multimedia Writing and Rhetoric (AY 2018-19, University of Notre Dame)

• Written Expression: Writing and Rhetoric (2014-2016, University of Vermont)

Curriculum

Sara has over a decade of experience in the development of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for K-12 ELA.

She has served in a variety of roles—manager, expert reviewer, senior developer, and project manager—on the following projects:

• Great Minds’ Wit & Wisdom (including Geodes and Projected)

• StandardsWork’s ModEL Detroit Project

• EngageNY’s 8-12 ELA Curriculum

She has also contributed to variety of curriculum projects with the following organizations:

• Student Achievement Partners

• Vermont Writing Collaborative

• Reading Done Right