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unboxED Podcast

Guest User — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:33:00 +0000

When One Teacher Challenges the Status Quo, Students of All Abilities Thrive

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Principal Matters: The School Leader's Podcast with William D. Parker

Guest User — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:58:53 +0000

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The Catholic School Leaders Podcast

Guest User — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:09:00 +0000

Challenging the Status Quo with Tanya Sheckley

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SEEing to Lead Podcast

Guest User — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

Supporting Intuition with Relationships with Tanya Sheckley

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Transformative Principal Podcast

Guest User — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:25:00 +0000

A Project-Based Aligned Literacy Curriculum with Tanya Sheckley and Brittany Botta

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De Facto Leaders Podcast

Guest User — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Becoming a School Founder and Empowering Students Through Project-Based Learning with Tanya Sheckley

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Founders Pack Podcast

Guest User — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:07:57 +0000

Tanya Sheckley, the visionary force behind 91��Ƶ, is revolutionizing education with personalized learning, inclusive classrooms, and a commitment to empowering students of all abilities. As a passionate advocate for educational reform, she also hosts the Rebel Educator podcast, delivers inspiring speeches nationwide, and leads professional development initiatives. Beyond her professional pursuits, Tanya finds joy in yoga, outdoor adventures, and cherishing moments with her family in the vibrant Bay Area.

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Intrepid Ed News Columnist

Guest User — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:35:47 +0000

Tanya Sheckley is Founder and President of 91��Ƶ, an elementary lab school which values innovation, empathy and strength and incorporates a unique neuro-development program for children with physical disabilities. Tanya’s vision and mission show it’s possible to celebrate differences, change what’s broken in the American education system, and that all children can receive a rigorous, well-rounded education. She is an Edpreneur, Author of Rebel Educator: Create Classrooms of Imagination and Impact and host of the Rebel Educator podcast. She speaks frequently on the future of education and entrepreneurship. She is a rebel educator who works with new and existing schools to question the status quo and develop innovative student experiences through inclusion and project-based learning.

The Importance of Productive Struggle in Education

Can You Cheat with ChatGPT?

Not More EdTech: Part 2

Not More EdTech

What is the Purpose of School? A Forgotten Question

Give the Gift of Positivity: You Can Do This!

The Power of Project-Based Learning: Generating Action from an Idea (Summer Series):

Lessons Learned as an Edupreneur, Year 4: But For One, Life Would be Great

Lessons Learned as an Edupreneur, Year 3: Never Make a Decision Alone

Lessons Learned as an Edupreneur, Year 2: You Can’t Be Everything to Everyone

Achieve Equity Through Universal Accommodations by Tanya Sheckley

Why is Overcoming the Expectations Gap So Hard? by Tanya Sheckley

Lessons Learned as an Edupreneur: Year One, Advisors by Tanya Sheckley

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Getting Smart Podcast

Guest User — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:12:00 +0000

Tanya Sheckley on Rebel Educators

Tanya Sheckley is the Founder and President of 91��Ƶ – a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. 91��Ƶ is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend school alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

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Education on Fire Podcast

Guest User — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:08:00 +0000

91��Ƶ: An Elementary Lab School

Tanya’s vision and mission show it’s possible to celebrate differences, change what’s broken in the American education system, and that all children can receive a rigorous, well rounded education. She is an Edpreneur, Author of Rebel Educator: Create Classrooms of Imagination and Impact and host of the Rebel Educator podcast. She speaks frequently on the future of education and entrepreneurship.

She is a rebel educator who works with new and existing schools to question the status quo and develop innovative student experiences through inclusion and project based learning.

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Inclusive Education Project (IEP) Podcast

Guest User — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:05:00 +0000

Inclusion and the Learner-Centered Classroom

We welcome Tanya Sheckley to the show today! She is the founder of 91��Ƶ, a progressive elementary (and soon-to-be middle school) in the San Francisco Bay area that is inclusive of students with physical disabilities. Tanya’s motivation for 91��Ƶ came in the form of her oldest daughter, who has cerebral palsy and needed the right educational fit where she could excel academically and get the physical care she needed. 91��Ƶ classrooms focus on a community framework where universal accommodations allow each student to learn life skills and academic skills to be successful, no matter their disability or learning style.

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The Shameless Mom Academy Podcast

Guest User — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:49:00 +0000

Building Accessible Education to Honor Her Daughter’s Legacy

Tanya Sheckley is Founder and President of 91��Ƶ, an elementary lab school that values innovation, empathy, and strength and incorporates a unique neuro-development program for children with physical disabilities. Tanya’s vision and mission show it’s possible to celebrate differences, change what’s broken in the American education system and that all children can receive a rigorous, well-rounded education.

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Better Leaders Better Schools with Daniel Bauer

Guest User — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:40:31 +0000

How to be a Rebel Educator

91��Ƶ is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

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Disrupt Education Podcast

Guest User — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:06:00 +0000

Inclusive Mix Aged Classrooms

Tanya Sheckley and 91��Ƶ is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

Inspired by the will, drive, and desire of her daughter, Eliza, who was born in 2009 with cerebral palsy, 91��Ƶ is proving that it’s possible to celebrate differences, change what’s broken in the American school system, and provide all children with a rigorous, well-rounded education.

Tanya also hosts the Rebel Educator podcast, speaks across the country on the future of education, and leads professional development programs for school administrators and educators.

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Transformative Learning Experiences with Kyle Wagner

Guest User — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:24:08 +0000

Micro-Schools and Future 'Learner-Centered' Environments

How do we create learner-centered environments and accelerate innovation in education? Small learning pods, blended environments, and micro-schools are emerging everywhere to help answer this question.

With small class sizes and autonomy, they are able to personalize learning experiences, foster community, meet diverse needs, and chart engaging project-based pathways for learners that often get left behind.

But are they here to stay? I sat down with Tanya Sheckley, Founder of 91��Ƶ to find out.

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The Intentional Encourager

Tanya Sheckley — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:04:46 +0000

Social Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker and Founder of 91��Ƶ Tanya Sheckley joins this episode and talks about:

Communication and community.
The guilt of her school being open during COVID when most were not.
Staying true to their school's mission.
The inspiration of her oldest daughter and the challenges of finding the right education with her special needs.
Finding a different way to be inclusive and do education different.
The 2 ways to start a revolution and the 3 parts of starting their school.
The conversation she'd have with the Education Director of the United States.
Selling beer for 10 years and the lessons she learned from it.
Moving along with where the next thing took her.
Becoming like the people she surrounded herself with.
Her daughter's birth without normal function, the battles with doctors and nurses around her care and how to advocate for her.
Losing her daughter suddenly at age six.
The different ways of handling grief and having grace and patience through it.
Trauma changing her brain.
Her daughter's words that became her biggest piece of Intentional encouragement.

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Game Changers Series 7 Episode 5: Ultimate Potential

Tanya Sheckley — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:54:52 +0000

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In this fifth episode of Series Seven of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Tanya Sheckley, Founder of 91��Ƶ, a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. 91��Ƶ is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend school alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms. In this conversation, she tells her inspiring story while breaking down the need for personalisation in schools.

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Fem Founder™

Guest User — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 13:52:00 +0000

“Some days move faster, some mover slower, some have big wins and some have big losses” with Tanya Sheckley

Tanya Sheckley is the Founder and President of 91��Ƶ — a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. 91��Ƶ is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend school alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

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Meaningful Learning Podcast

Tanya Sheckley — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 22:43:54 +0000

In this episode of the Meaningful Learning podcast, I speak with Tanya Sheckley, Social Entrepreneur and Founder of 91��Ƶ, an elementary school in San Mateo, California, which is the first school in the world where kids who are able bodied and kids with physical disabilities learn together in the same classrooms. 91��Ƶ focuses heavily on Project Based Learning, showing that elementary school students aren't too young to engage in authentic experiences.

In this podcast, Tanya and I discuss:

• How to develop core academic skills through student agency

•How to build a school culture that promotes and sustains joy in learning and teaching

•How to model lifelong learning to the students and adults alike.

Join us for another episode of the Meaningful Learning podcast by Coconut Thinking. We hope you enjoy this episode and please let us have your thoughts and feedback.

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Redesigning School: Six Key Pillars From Six of the Most Innovative Schools and Programs

Tanya Sheckley — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:55:15 +0000

“…students feel empowered because they are allowed to take risks. “At UP Academy, there is a difference between a good student and a good learner. A good student learns to pass tests, a good learner knows how to persevere even when they fail.’”