Since 2011, I have worked as both a tutor and teacher at Phillips State Prison, a medium-security facility in Buford, Georgia with Common Good Atlanta and the Georgia State University Prison Education Project. While this is my longest standing relationship tutoring and teaching in prisons, I have also taught courses at Metro Reentry Facility in Atlanta, GA and Walker State Prison in Rock Springs, GA.
Tutoring
From 2011-2015, I served as Director of the Writing Studio @ Phillips State Prison. In this role, I facilitated tutor training and set up once-monthly one-on-one tutoring appointments between Writing Studio tutors and incarcerated students at Phillips. In the below interview with Hal Jacobs from June 2015, I discuss tutoring at the prison with The Writing Studio @ Georgia State.
Tutoring with The Writing Studio @ Georgia State
I created two training videos for tutors to prepare them to best work with incarcerated students in 2019 that can be seen below:
Common Good Atlanta Writing Studio Training Video #1: What is the Conversational Model?
Common Good Atlanta Writing Studio Training Video #2: Responding as a Reader, Not an Expert
Teaching
I have taught several enrichment and credit-bearing courses at Phillips over the years. In summer 2014, I taught a course on The Shorter Works of Herman Melville; the syllabus for that course can be found here. I discuss the class in an interview with Hal Jacobs from June 2015 below
Teaching Herman Melville @ Phillips State Prison
As a Perimeter College faculty member, I also taught credit-bearing classes including Composition II: “We Understand Then, Do We Not?’: Narrative and Empathy in Fictional Form(s) in spring 2019 and World Literature: “Not Untrue, But Incomplete” In Search of World Literature in Spring 2022. The syllabi for these courses can be found here and here, respectively.
Tutoring
From 2011-2015, I served as Director of the Writing Studio @ Phillips State Prison. In this role, I facilitated tutor training and set up once-monthly one-on-one tutoring appointments between Writing Studio tutors and incarcerated students at Phillips. In the below interview with Hal Jacobs from June 2015, I discuss tutoring at the prison with The Writing Studio @ Georgia State.
Tutoring with The Writing Studio @ Georgia State
I created two training videos for tutors to prepare them to best work with incarcerated students in 2019 that can be seen below:
Common Good Atlanta Writing Studio Training Video #1: What is the Conversational Model?
Common Good Atlanta Writing Studio Training Video #2: Responding as a Reader, Not an Expert
Teaching
I have taught several enrichment and credit-bearing courses at Phillips over the years. In summer 2014, I taught a course on The Shorter Works of Herman Melville; the syllabus for that course can be found here. I discuss the class in an interview with Hal Jacobs from June 2015 below
Teaching Herman Melville @ Phillips State Prison
As a Perimeter College faculty member, I also taught credit-bearing classes including Composition II: “We Understand Then, Do We Not?’: Narrative and Empathy in Fictional Form(s) in spring 2019 and World Literature: “Not Untrue, But Incomplete” In Search of World Literature in Spring 2022. The syllabi for these courses can be found here and here, respectively.
