Projects

Applied Work &Community

My work bridges theory and practice, ranging from digital tools for language learning to community-based nonprofit leadership. Below is a selection of current and ongoing initiatives.

PROSLA Lesson Design Tool

Proficiency Oriented Second Language Acquisition (PROSLA) is the backbone of my language teaching. I am developing a lesson-design tool that helps teachers create PROSLA-aligned tasks, learning outcomes, and assessments. The project combines my classroom practice with machine learning to suggest activities, sequence tasks, and keep proficiency—not test-prep—as the central goal.

Machine Learning Feedback for Language Learners

In this project, I experiment with ML models that provide targeted feedback on student writing and speaking without replacing teacher judgment. The focus is on clarity, tone, and communicative effectiveness in the target language, with the system designed to be transparent and easily overridden by the teacher. The aim is to give students more practice opportunities while keeping the classroom humane and relationship-centered.

PROSLA Classroom Labs

I design and run classroom “labs” where Proficiency Oriented Second Language Acquisition is implemented across full units. Students work through task-based sequences that integrate interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication, supported by clear rubrics and ongoing feedback. These labs serve as living case studies for how structured, high-expectation teaching can coexist with warmth, flexibility, and student agency.

Storytelling and Podcast Projects

In my language and literature courses, students create podcasts, stories, and multimodal projects that require sustained target-language use and serious engagement with texts. These projects are designed to move beyond simple comprehension checks and into interpretation, argument, and creative expression. They also function as testbeds for how digital tools can support student voice in rigorous but accessible ways.

Rise for Hope: Supporting Families Facing Pediatric Cancer

As founder and director of Rise for Hope, I lead a nonprofit that supports children with cancer and their families through practical assistance and hopeful community. This work includes fundraising campaigns, volunteer coordination, and partnerships with local organizations. It is a concrete extension of my belief that education, technology, and care must ultimately serve real human needs.

Workshops for Teachers and Schools

I design and deliver workshops on PROSLA-based language teaching, humane uses of AI in education, and critical approaches to digital tools. These sessions help educators understand what ML can and cannot do, how to integrate it without losing their professional judgment, and how to design classrooms that are demanding, inclusive, and hopeful.

Projectional Reciprocity in Education

Building on my theoretical work on projectional reciprocity, I am developing a series of seminars and materials that help educators think about classrooms as sites of mutual formation. The project explores how feedback, relationships, and institutional structures shape both teacher and student, and how technology can either flatten or deepen these dynamics.

Data-Informed, Human-Centered Curriculum Design

This ongoing project explores how to use learning data to refine curricula without reducing students to metrics. I work on small-scale pilots that combine PROSLA outcomes, classroom observations, and ML-supported analysis to adjust tasks and assessments in ways that remain faithful to the complexity of human learning.

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