Cheryl Schnell

Cheryl Schnell has 20 years of teaching experience and holds a Master’s Degree in Collaborative Educational Leadership and Change from Fielding University. During her teaching career, she founded Island City Academy, a place-based, project-based charter school that uses the outdoors and community as the context for inquiry based learning. Now retired from the classroom, Cheryl advocates to support schools and educators that want to expand the learning experiences for students to include an inquiry focus and learning outdoors.