Theme

Ritual

Small repeated structures doing enormous invisible work.

Journal entries

Sep 5, 2026 · EDOC 7120 · Slides 35–36, closing reflection

What I first thought · I learned that · I wonder if

The prompt I gave the room at the end of the presentation, and the norms question I want every adult in a school to sit with.

Aug 28, 2026 · EDOC 7120 · Week 6, decolonizing neurodiversity

Not broken — differently attuned

Two constructs at odds: a Global North paradigm that medicalized difference as defect, and Global South paradigms that had already integrated it.

Feb 18, 2026 · Group Work & Belonging

The hallway is a curriculum

We keep asking why students disengage in the hall between classes. But the hallway is where the real sorting happens — and we've never once designed it.

Open questions

live

Can belonging be built as infrastructure rather than hoped for as a feeling?

Research ideas

developing

Belonging as designed infrastructure

A framework treating belonging as the product of maintained structures — schedule, ritual, space, interruption rights — rather than of individual warmth.

Projects

Field Experience Seminar · Winter 2026

Field observation set: transitions

Five days of structured observation of passing periods, coded for interruption rights, greeting patterns, and route choice.

Reading & influences

Article · Marium Akhund, PhD, licensed psychotherapist

Decolonizing neurodiversity

Reframed demand avoidance as intuitive dissent and clock-based time as an erasure of neurodivergent pacing. It made me look at my building's bell schedule as a cultural artifact rather than a neutral container.