My teaching philosophy lies in my understanding of rhetoric and writing as both a discipline that can be taught, and a social practice in which we all already participate. From this perspective, the writing instructor’s job is to both equip our students with the communication skills they need to excel professionally and academically and also to provide the guidance towards empowering them to more deliberately participate in the world as critical thinkers and conscientious citizens. In service of this goal, I actively work to integrate both pragmatic learning objectives and civic pedagogical values into my teaching on the level of curriculum design and in-class teaching methods. Whether teaching face-to-face, asynchronously, synchronously online, or in various hybrid formats, I prioritize student-centered approaches to interactive engagement in the classroom in order to encourage active student learning.