I embrace teaching as an opportunity to inspire and develop. I strive for students to feel seen and heard and safe. I teach from an anti-oppressive framework using UDL principles. I always begin my teaching fully embracing the AODA principles, this making teaching transparent for all learners. In any teaching context, I work to promote student responsibility for learning by creating a learning community that is stimulating and respectful of diverse perspectives and ways of knowing and learning. I believe seeing your students as more than just the thing that stands out in the classroom, as far as race or their gender, and understanding that there is a long background to all those things. Understanding context is also key to teaching at and with intersections. Understanding diversity and the uniqueness of each students learning styles and experiences is key to enhancing this engagement. The process by which I work to stimulate student engagement is unique to everyone and the learning community. I am passionate about finding the most effective ways of stimulating and sustaining theoretical and practical growth among those who enter my classroom. Learning is a complex process that is individual, content and context specific. Our students are contextual learners and digital natives. As an educator, I am attentive to these factors and work to be flexible, adapting my approaches accordingly. Implement these ideals in the classroom in several ways. Teaching is rarely "value-free" and my own classes carry messages of openness to difference, social justice, respect and dignity for all peoples, intelligent risk-taking, fairness, and questioning assumptions I am a firm believer in active learning, to me, teaching is not about lecturing to students; it is about presenting theories, concepts, and empirical material to students in a way that they can critique and integrate this information into their own application of theory to practice and to embrace innovation.