Richard Short
TEACHER, WRITER, RESEARCHER, GAME DESIGNER
ABOUT ME
My principal aim is to investigate the educational affordances of tabletop roleplaying games in order to create practical tools for teaching. TTRPGs represent hope for classrooms reimagined as experiential, relational, individuated, reparative, and playful. Through my own design work, classroom implementation, and ongoing research across these processes, I continue to learn and grow.
As an English teacher, I seek to illuminate the transformational powers of language, and especially narrative, for my students through the cultivation of inquiry. As a literacy scholar, I investigate the systems of discourse, storytelling, and ludology as they inform lived experience, even beyond games. As a person, I am trying my best each day to be a little kinder than I was the day before.
KEY SKILLS
Analysis
Through critical analysis, I reimagine and retool systems. Analysis informs a relentless commitment to improvement personally and professionally.
Synthesis
The ideas that fund such improvement are borne of synthesis. An innate, omnivorous curiosity allows me to bring together diverse information resulting in novel strategies and exciting solutions.
Leadership
My years of experience teaching and training enable me to transmit and receive knowledge effectively and efficiently, fostering collaboration through warmth, respect, and diplomacy.