Teaching & Curriculum

Maya Steinborn is skilled in curriculum development and culturally relevant pedagogy. She currently teaches English to 9th through 12th grade students. She has also taught 8th grade English and high school enrichment courses including Freshman Leadership Studies, Creative Writing, and Mythology & Folklore. Prior to becoming a teacher, Maya worked with students applying to college and graduate school as a writing coach and tutor for the GRE, SAT, and ACT.

Steinborn, M. & Nusbaum, E. (2019). Cripping Human Rights Education with Disability Studies: an undergraduate reading list. Educational Studies, 55(4), 489-504.

Nusbaum, E. & Steinborn, M. (2019). A “visibilizing” project: “seeing” the ontological erasure of disability in teacher education and social studies curricula. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. 

Steinborn, M. (2017). Reimagining ability, reimagining America: teaching disability in United States history classes. University of San Francisco Scholarship Repository. 

Nusbaum, E. & Steinborn, M. (2017, April). Disability studies and Human Rights Education: developing DS curriculum in K-12 schools. Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Social Science Association, San Francisco, CA.

Nusbaum, E. & Steinborn, M. (2017, February). FAIR-era contexts for inclusion: disability studies in K-12 classrooms. Paper presented at the meeting of the Symposium on Engaged Scholarship, San Francisco, CA.

Steinborn, M. (2017, February). The visual power of conquest: human rights lessons in Spanish memoryscapes. Paper presented at the meeting of the Symposium on Engaged Scholarship, San Francisco, CA.

Steinborn, M. (2014, September). Teaching for compassion: a lesson on complicating personal identity. Poster presented at the Race and Pedagogy National Conference, Tacoma, WA. 

Steinborn, M. (2013). Fidel Castro’s cultural armament of Cold War Cuba: Developing education, 1960 – 1969. Sound Ideas.