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"Learning through teaching"

The idea of a teacher learning from students may feel backwards, but is rooted in a deep core of respect for the knowledge and capabilities of one’s students. In my teaching career, I’ve had the privilege of working with hundreds of students many of whom have taught me a great deal about science, culture, and teaching itself. I hope to be able to exemplify this tenet and make that trade in learning an equitably reciprocal one.

…through my entire career I learned the most from my current and former students…

Joel Moykr

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

My first full class with NC State University is happening in Fall of 2026, it will be cross listed AEC/NSGE: 295 Animal communications, please reach out to me if you’re interested in taking the course! More materials and information incoming.

AEC 295 (004) – Animal Communication

Communication – the exchange of information between individuals – is the underpinning of emergent function that leads to superorganisms, societies, and multicellularity. If you’re interested in how whales find and recognize each other, why crickets chirp and how they manage it, or how the cowbird, raised by another species, finds out it’s a cowbird, this is the class for you.