Tammy Schaapherder

Tammy Schaapherder's teaching career has spanned more than 32 years and a few continents. Growing up in Southwest Iowa, she began her teaching career as a special education instructor in Clinton, Iowa, but soon found herself teaching at an international school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She founded her own school in Beira, Mozambique, taught in an alternative school setting, and instructed incarcerated individuals in an adult correctional facility (prison). Whether teaching in a public school, alternative school, international school, or in a prison, she found students’ wants and needs were similar.