Shella Zelenz

20 years of teaching K- 12, several years of curriculum writing for private schools, and 5 years teaching as a college professor. I taught private lessons for 18 years.

Traditional, democratic, student directed - I've tried and used them all!

Shella Zelenz, M.A.Ed., Ed.D* Social Innovation Award - Fielding Graduate University for my research on The Role of Indigenous Cultural Values and Epigenetics on School Reform. Published "RootEd: How Trauma Impacts Learning and Society" in 2020. https://rootedresearch.org

Shella Zelenz, M.A.Ed., Ed.D.* BA - Arts Administration/Music/Music Education M.A.Ed. - Elementary Education Ed.D. Educational Leadership and Change/Media Studies Teaching in the Virtual Classroom certified

I have researched alternative educational approaches to traditional learning methodologies. This has included unshcooling, democratic classrooms/schools, project-based learning, flipped-classrooms, experiential learning, and student-led learning.