Education

  • Certificate in School Management & Leadership — Harvard Graduate School of Education & Harvard Business School

  • M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction

  • Dual B.A. in Elementary Education and Exceptional Student Education with ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages)

  • B.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities (Fine Art, Religion, and History)

Certifications

  • National Board Certified Teacher (NBPTS), Exceptional Needs Specialist — Achieved 2012

  • New York State Professional Certificates:

    • Students with Disabilities (Grades 1–6)

    • Students with Disabilities (Grades 7–12, Generalist)

    • Childhood Education (Grades 1–6)

Instructional Approaches

Tara is trained in a range of instructional approaches, combining research-based methods with widely used frameworks, including:

  • The Writing Revolution (Hochman Method)

  • Orton-Gillingham Approach

  • Preventing Academic Failure (PAF)

  • Teachers College Reading & Writing Project (Lucy Calkins)

  • Fountas & Pinnell (F&P)

  • Scientific Spelling

  • Project ExC-ELL (vocabulary acquisition for English language learners)

  • Cognitive Connections (executive functioning strategies developed by Sarah Ward)

  • Brain Gym (Educational Kinesiology for mind-body integration and learning readiness)

Program names are trademarks of their respective holders and are used here for identification purposes only. Tara Schneider is not formally affiliated with any of these programs.