Higher Education Teaching Experience

The University of Houston, Central Campus, Houston, Texas

Adjunct Lecturer, Reading in the Content Areas

Adjunct Lecturer, Reading and Language Arts in the Elementary School

Adjunct Lecturer, Survey of Adolescent Literature

Adjunct Lecturer, Survey of Literature for Children and Adolescents

Adjunct Lecturer, Reading and Language Arts in the Elementary School

Teaching Assistant Fellow, Trends and Issues in Curriculum and Instruction Professional Seminar I

Teaching Assistant Fellow, Trends and Issues in Curriculum and Instruction Professional Seminar II

Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado

Adjunct Lecturer, Elementary, Reading, and Language Arts, K-6

Adjunct Lecturer, Methods of Teaching Language and Literacy: Elementary

Houston Community College, Houston, Texas

Adjunct and Dual-Credit Instructor, Learning Framework

Publications

Translanguaging Pedagogies in PreK-12 Theatre Education (published in the Texas Journal of Multicultural Education, 2025)

Culturally Responsive Theatre Education (Book Chapter in Culturally responsive and sustaining education: Framing diversity, equity, and social justice education in a local to global context, by Cameron White, editor and co-author, 2022)

Grant Awards

2020 recipient of Arts Connect Award for project titled, “Playwriting in the Pandemic”

2019 recipient of Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Classroom Resources Award for original project titled, “Heritage and Experiential Learning Through Theatre”

Research

Teacher Perceptions of Collective Theatre Efficacy, dissertation study, University of Houston College of Education, 2022

Graduate Theatre Education Students’ Perceptions of Collective Theatre Efficacy, special project, Mississippi University for Women, 2024

Sunny’s CV