Kachine Kulick
PhD Student
Teacher Learning, Research & Practice

I am a First-Gen PhD candidate student at CU Boulder from Towanda, Pennsylvania. I am starting my fifth year in the School of Education, focusing on Teacher Learning Research and Practice. Prior to graduate studies at CU, I taught fifth and sixth grade for six years in Thornton, CO and also taught third grade for two years in Khon Kaen, Thailand. 

My work focuses on the possibilities of learning design when we attend to the self on ideological, emotional, and embodied levels in pursuit of justice, repair, action and accountability in education by drawing on queer and critical/abolitionist perspectives. I am curious about how teacher candidates find connections between abolitionist, anti-racist somatic practices and social justice frameworks for both informed, just classroom pedagogy and importantly, engaged, anti-racist, healing-oriented living.

Field Coach: Supervised and supported student teachers in the Elementary Education major during their field experience. Worked collaboratively with professors, field coaches, mentor teachers and student teachers through reflective observation and coaching cycles for student teachers to complete their licensure. 

Program Coordinator for EPIC Futures in EDUC 2411: Designed, collaborated, and facilitated  international, online, and in-person after school programs that look at how young people can imagine and organize for new social futures that foster creativity, collaboration, and the blending of academic and everyday knowledge. I led and facilitated the international partnership between CU Boulder's School of Education and Ban Luk Rak Children's Home in Khon Kaen, Thailand. 

EDUC 2050: Step Up to Social Justice: Designer of Course and Instructor of Record for an Elementary Education major course. The course examines the self through a cognitive, embodied, and emotional level and one's interactions with the systems and structures in the context of the United States and how that relates to schooling.  

EDUC 3013: School and Society: Co-designed, collaborated, and taught- future teachers and those across campus interested in education- issues surrounding education within the United States. The course reveals the complex relationship between schools and the larger society of which they are a part. Examines issues of diversity and equity from different disciplinary lenses, including history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, psychology. 

Teaching Assistant for EDUC 4331 Elementary Social Studies Methods: Co-designed and collaborated for an Elementary Education methods course that examines the complexities of unique social-cultural contexts and student centered instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking and inquiry-based methods.

Regan, P.V. & Kulick, K. (2023). Queer culture: Freedom in refusal. In. Winn, M.T. & Winn, L.T. (Eds.). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education, 6 (Language, Literacy, Youth, and Cultures), forthcoming.

Strunk, K. & Kulick, K. (2022). “Confessions of Whiteness in Queer Organizing Spaces” In Duran, A., Schey, R., Strunk, K.  (Eds.) Bridging the Rainbow Gap: Exploring the Possibilities and Tensions in Queer and Trans Studies in Education. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers. 

 Tomiko, R., Regan, P., Kulick, K., Ruíz-Martínez, M. (2022). "Co-designing Educator Spaces for Collective Liberation: A Photographic Essay" The Assembly: A Journal for Public Scholarship on Education, Issue 4.