Kindra’s approach to teaching is driven by two principles. First, post-secondary education is a social good that should be accessible to a variety of students with different learning styles, backgrounds, and perspectives. Second, the self is valuable and indispensable, worthy of reflection, care, exploration, and improvement.
Her courses foster engaging environments for a variety of learning styles. Class formats offer a combination of organized discussion, written reflection, peer-learning, visualization, and lecture. She requires students to think through a variety of intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives, which is a necessary skill for collaboration and the solving of social and environmental issues.
In addition to encouraging and creating the space for dynamic student learning, she also makes time for student meditation, self-reflection, pursuing personal academic interests, and identification of self within the class content. Kindra believes that students are indispensable and have a voice and power in their social-environmental world. It is her goal to tease that out.
Western Colorado University Courses:
- ENVS 100: Introduction to Environment and Sustainability
- ENVS 210: Introduction to Climate Policy
- ENVS 250: Environmental Justice
- ENVS 300: The Science of Sustainability and Resilience
- ENVS 320: Quantitative Skills for Climate Action Planning
- ENVS 623: Environmental Justice
University of Oregon Courses:
- SOC 304: Community Environment Society
- SOC 311: Research Methods