Taylor Fox
B.A. · M.Ed. · M.A. · Doctoral Candidate
Curriculum designer and instructional researcher with a decade of classroom practice behind the research question that drives my doctoral work: whether what gets designed to teach something actually teaches it.
AP World History and AP US History, secondary humanities, and curriculum design across a full instructional career.
Acceptance rate for the two-week college readiness seminar I designed and ran, built backward from outcomes.
A B.A. in History, an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction, an M.A. in Education-Teaching, and an Ed.D. now in the dissertation phase.
Ten years of the real thing
Every claim on this site was tested on real students first. AP World History, AP US History, AP Psychology, English, music, and drama, taught across a decade at the secondary level, alongside directing and producing full-length musical theater productions as a department head. The research question I now study formally started as a practical one I faced every Monday morning: did the thing I designed actually teach what it was built to teach?
The bottleneck isn't information. It's design.
My doctoral research asks a simple, uncomfortable question: when a course is taught well and students still underperform, is it the students, or is it the design of the sequence they were taught with? My current dissertation investigates this through three years of AP World History exam data.
Human judgment gets more valuable, not less.
"The thing that degrades fastest is the ability to distinguish content that looks like teaching from content that actually teaches. Encoding that distinction into systems that scale it is curriculum work."
AI is changing the landscape of teaching faster than schools can adapt to it. The foundations of how education uses these tools are being set right now, and I want to help set them, not inherit them.
"A master of curriculum design."
From five letters written by principals, deans, and colleagues who've worked alongside me for years.
Taylor operates at an elite academic level and brings that rigor and excellence directly into her classroom.
Taylor is a program builder and academic architect.
She brings a rare balance of expertise, empathy, and practical insight.