Welcome to Cabrillo. I've been teaching English courses full time at our college since 2000. My Master of Arts degree is in English, Teaching of Composition, from San Francisco State University. I am a native New Yorker from the city of Flushing in the borough of Queens. My hobbies include playing chess, playing guitar, collecting baseball cards (primarily New York Mets). My work at Cabrillo has also included being the past department chair of Journalism and teaching the newspaper production courses.
Please reach out to me for help and from all our wonderful support services at Cabrillo. We are here to help you succeed. We are all facing traumatic conditions in our lives, so building community is a key step to our general well being and our ability to engage regularly and successfully with our academic studies.
Office Hours:
Fall '24:
ENGL 1A section 05 Aptos Campus: Every Monday in room 315 from 8:10-9:20 am.
ENGL 1A section 09 Aptos Campus: Every Wednesday in room 315 from 12:40-1:50 pm.
ENGL 2 section 06 asynchronous online in Canvas: Every Tuesday 10:30-11:50 am.
ENGL 2 section 07 asynchronous online in Cavnas: Every Thursday 10:30-11:50 am.
IMPORTANT NOTES FOR YOUR SUCCESS IN CLASS:
Registered students for on campus course must attend the first class meeting to hold their seat in the class. Not attending means losing your space to someone on the wait list wishing to add. Registered students in online classes must log in the first day of class to hold their seat.
Required course texts are available for purchase at our college's bookstore or can be accessed for free via digital copy via our library.
Students in ENGL 1A are required to take LIB 10, a co-requisite class. LIB 10 supports students in research-oriented writing, the focus of ENGL 1A.
My online classes are fully asynchronous, meaning no Zoom meetings to deliver instruction. Study materials and assignments are in CANVAS. Weekly consistent and sufficient participation to show engagement is required; failure to show weekly and consistent engagement means conferencing with your teacher and creating an action plan for improvement. Continued lack of engagement can trigger being dropped from the class.
For online students: There are many ways to communicate with me in support of your studies: CANVAS inbox message, direct messaging in Pronto!, requesting a Zoom meeting, and attending office hours. For on campus students: please attend my weekly office hours or schedule an appointment with me for additional support outside of office hour.
Please access our many student services such as tutoring, Ask a Librarian, ASC (for support with disability-related accommodations), academic counseling, Student Health Services. Our student service professionals are here to support you. You can find in Canvas a link to our Student Success Center which is a one-stop referral system for you to access support services.
Let's have a great semester of learning from and with each other.