Sawyer Henshaw
Authentic Education Consultant
Sawyer Henshaw (she/her) is a freelance writer based in Southern California. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Scripps College and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of San Francisco. Sawyer has worked in education for the past five years, teaching in Kindergarten, third, fourth, and sixth-grade classrooms across California. As an educator, she is dedicated to creating safe classroom spaces for students to feel seen, supported, and inspired by prioritizing equity and emphasizing in-depth understanding through the UbD framework. In her free time, Sawyer enjoys reading and writing literary fiction and taking her dog, Elk, on hikes.
Sawyer’s Work
Check out some of Sawyer’s recent posts to the Authentic Education blog.
Frameworks like UbD and PBL have been instrumental in shifting ways in which we organically incorporate assessments and feedback.
Students engage more and are more motivated when they realize their impact on the world through direct community involvement.
UbD helps us think beyond test scores and memorization to better support students develop thinking and questioning skills that will benefit them in the future.
