About me
Dani Schechner brings 20 years of combined experience in educational leadership including teaching, education consulting, research and scholarship, instruction and curriculum design, direct services, health and education equity policy and practice.
She is the Founding Director of Learners at the Center, a multi-thread engagement organization that integrates and implements equity-by-design praxis inclusive of dynamic instructional opportunities utilizing trademarked evidence-based multi-sensory and integrative methodologies, curricula and partnership programs, data and research, organizational consulting, special education/education advocacy, policy-research-implementation actualization. Focusing on the how to actualize and realize radically affirming praxis, dynamic outcomes, and a love of learning for all learners.
Past professional presentations topics and engagements include Universal Design and High Leverage Instructional Practices, Smith College Disability Studies Conference, Montclair State University, Institute for Inclusive Education, Arts Equity Summit on Equity-By -Design Praxis and Intersectional and Anti-Racist Teaching Methods; NJEEC on Radical Scaffolding and Liberatory Praxis in English Classrooms; MAEA on embodiment and mindfulness in classrooms, liberatory spaciality/temporarily in artmaking/art teaching; NYC Charter School Network on Preventive and Responsive Practices for 'Challenging Behavior,' Trauma Prevention and Response, Multi-sensory and integrative Methods for Designing Inherently Inclusive Classrooms, Weaving Together Multi-tiered Systems of Intervention and Universal Design, Youth Engagement at the International Human Rights Summit; Shifting Binary thinking at Transcending Boundaries Conference; Design Thinking and 21st Century Learning, UDL, Disability Justice, Education and Disability Policy, and inclusive teaching practices for diverse partners and professional developments.
Numerous degrees and trainings include a Master’s in Educational Studies with a focus on education best practices, Bachelors in WGS, Epistemology, Visual Art and Art History, Post Graduate studies in Special Education and Educational Psychology, Women’s Leadership Scholarship Certificate from Institute for Women’s Leadership, Ethical Leadership, Masters in Public Administration.