Sixteen years ago I started with a stack of paperbacks missing their covers and thirty-one ninth graders who'd decided, collectively, that reading was something that happened to other people. That has changed, slowly, ev...
AP LITERATURE · M.A. COMPARATIVE LIT.
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Head of Academics, St. Xavier's
SSixteen years ago I started with a stack of paperbacks missing their covers and thirty-one ninth graders who'd decided, collectively, that reading was something that happened to other people. That has changed, slowly, every year since. My classroom runs on close reading and honest disagreement — I hand students a text, not a thesis, and the tools to build their own argument. Outside class, I edit the school's literary journal, coach persuasive writing for the debate team, and am — slowly — writ...
Open to senior-school English roles · June 2027
M.A. Comparative Literature — University of Mumbai
B.A. English Honours — St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
B.Ed. (Secondary English) — SNDT Women's University
National Board Certified — English/Language Arts — NBCT
A range built on one habit — read closely before you speak, and speak before you write.
College-level close reading, timed essay strategy, full exam prep.
Fiction and poetry, peer workshop format, a portfolio built across a semester.
Structured discussion method for building argument and active listening.
One-on-one sessions turning a life story into a personal statement.
Scaffolded reading strategies for multilingual learners approaching canon texts.
Persuasive writing translated into confident, structured oral argument.
Currently on the shelf — what's being taught and what's archived from past terms.
College-level close reading, timed essay strategy, full exam prep.
Fiction and poetry, peer workshop format, a portfolio built across a semester.
Structured discussion method for building argument and active listening.
One-on-one sessions turning a life story into a personal statement.
Scaffolded reading strategies for multilingual learners approaching canon texts.
Persuasive writing translated into confident, structured oral argument.
DISTRICT, 2023
NATIONAL BOARD, ELA
"TEACHING VOICE," ESSAYS
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
She's the first teacher who made me actually enjoy arguing about a book.
My son's writing changed more in one semester than in three years before it.
Office hours turned my worst essay into my best one.
The seminar taught me how to actually listen, not just wait to talk.
She's the first teacher who made me actually enjoy arguing about a book.
My son's writing changed more in one semester than in three years before it.
Office hours turned my worst essay into my best one.
The seminar taught me how to actually listen, not just wait to talk.
Open to senior-school English roles · June 2027
One-on-one essay coaching or a seminar consult — thirty minutes, in person or by video.
Bandra West, Mumbai 400050