About Chloe Hodson

I’ve always noticed when something doesn’t make sense, especially when what people say they value doesn’t match what they actually do. I tend to see the system around a problem, not just the problem itself. I notice what we’ve accepted as normal, where our assumptions might be limiting us, and what becomes possible when we look at something another way.

I’ve spent more than a decade working across education, research, learning design, and facilitation. I taught for six years internationally in Abu Dhabi before returning to the United States, where my questions about education eventually led me to doctoral study. Today, I’m a PhD candidate in Curriculum & Instruction, and my research explores love as praxis in education, particularly what becomes possible when love, presence, and our humanity are treated as central to how we learn and relate to one another.

My background in curriculum shapes the way I see far more than schools. I think of curriculum as everything we learn about how the world works, including what counts as knowledge, what success looks like, whose authority matters, and what we come to believe is possible for ourselves and each other. We inherit these lessons everywhere, often without realizing it.

That is the curriculum I’m interested in.

It’s also what I bring to my work with other people. I’m most useful when something needs another perspective. Maybe a project is still taking shape. Maybe something isn’t working and you can’t quite figure out why. Maybe you have an idea that feels important but haven’t figured out what it could become yet.

I don’t come in with a formula or assume I already know the answer. I ask questions, make connections, and help you see what might be difficult to see from inside the work. Sometimes that means questioning the structure itself. Sometimes it means finding language for something you already know. And sometimes it opens up a possibility neither of us could see at the beginning.

That same way of seeing runs through my research, writing, podcast, resources, and collaborative work. I’m interested in helping us see beyond what we’ve inherited so we have more freedom to decide what we want to create instead.