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  • KRYSTAL ROBERTS
    EDUCATOR. WRITER. SPEAKER
    HELPING TO TRANSFORM US INTO MORE OF WHO
    WE ARE, TO DO MORE THAN WE’VE EVER DONE.
Coach

Engaging, inspiring, and empowering students through a pedagogy that offers meaningful learning experiences with an emphasis on personal development as a transformative dynamic in their academic learning and career success.

Educator

Engaging, inspiring, and empowering students through a pedagogy that offers meaningful learning experiences with an emphasis on personal development as a transformative dynamic in their academic learning and career success.

Writer

Capturing and communicating the human experience through multiple genres while exploring how and what we learn, articulating business challenges and solutions, and offering pathways for personal, professional, and organizational development.

About Me

Coach. Educator. Writer.
Krystal Roberts is the creator of GrowingUpstream.com, an online Docublog that chronicles her personal and professional progress and also profiles impactful and inspirational people and businesses offering some of the most transformative services, products, and resources that aid in her process.

She brings her devotion to individual transformation to the classroom where she teaches University Writing and Research at Wingate University, not only as an academic discipline but also as a vehicle for transformative learning. As a modern educator, Krystal seeks to create an environment where critical reflection and questioning norms are encouraged and supported.

DOWNLOAD CVIn her classroom, she utilizes a pedagogy that offers relevant course content designed to engage students, draw out the skills they already have, and leverage the things they already do. Her focus is to inspire and teach students how to harness those things and learn the rhetorical strategies necessary for effective writing and communication.Krystal is also a writer and speaker that focuses on the relationship between how and what we learn and who we perceive ourselves to be. Her work hones in on how our perception–the stories we construct for ourselves– impact the work we choose (or do not choose) and how we communicate it to the world around us.Some of her work has been published in journals such as Educational Psychology: An Application of Critical Constructivism, Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn, Cultural Collusion and Collision: Reflections on Hip-Hop Culture, Liberator Magazine, and others.

Education

“Education in its inception was understood as a process of harnessing the inner potential that was yet unexpressed and bringing it “out” or “up” into consciousness.” –  Na’im Akbar

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Savannah College of Art and Design

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
2009 – 2012

02
Florida A&M University

Bachelor of Science
2000 – 2004

03
International TEFL Academy

TEFL Certification

The first function of education is to provide identity…the consciousness of our true nature – Na’im Akbar

Experience

Wingate UniversityAdjunct ProfessorCurrent

Currently teaching University Writing and Research with emphasis on expository essay writing, research, discursive prose, and lessons and discussions on diverse texts related to popular culture to promote strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

C.A.R.I.B.EESL Instructor2014

Taught pre-intermediate and intermediate English-language courses for groups of 10-15 students from diverse backgrounds and with varying proficiency levels.

Savannah College of Art and DesignEnglish Instructor2010

Taught Freshman English Composition course, overseeing all facets of curriculum planning, syllabus preparation, assessments, and grading.

Savannah College of Art and DesignWriting and Performance Instructor2016-2017

Served as advisor and mentor for students to support academic goals. Additionally, advised college poetry team, and planned all performance and special events.

Published Work

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  • Essay
  • Poem
  • Cultural Collision and Collusion, Look at Me, Poem

  • Contributor Educational Psychology, Look at Me, Poem

  • Contributor Educational Psychology Reader, Look at Me, Poem

  • In With The New, Eric Thomas advocates for more original music, Atlanta INtown Paper

  • I Bet You Thought Her Life Was About You, Liberator Magazine, Essay

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