Dr. Cassondra Zielinski (aka Dr. Z) balances student interest, curriculum, and rigor using inquiry-driven approaches to learning. The expectation is to bring the community, environment, and content together through advanced learning techniques, strategies, and hands-on approaches. Students are offered opportunities to question, learn, and excel through the engagement of world applications, environmental surroundings, and interactive lessons.
Dr. Z has been teaching for 27 years within K-12 traditional, 9-12 online, as well as graduate level courses in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Georgia. She served as a Southeastern Coach for over 2oo mathematics teachers and administrators in Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida and has coordinated, and presented, at several STEM conferences. Her most recent accomplishment has been a dozen weather sensors on the International Space Station this past spring which collected data for her STEM students and returned to earth on SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule. The data collected is being deposited in a world-wide data bank.
She holds a Bachelor and Master’s degrees in the fields of Mathematics, Distance Learning, Adult Education, and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction. She holds a NASA Lunar and Meteorite Certification and is a member of the Civil Air Patrol. She is gifted certified and a member of the STEM Teacher Leader Academy. She has been a Girls Who Code Sponsor and has attended several SPACE conferences.