Marsha Swindler

Dr. Marsha Swindler is Core Faculty for the School of Education at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena CA. She has been an instructor in Special Education for over 23 years, in the public and private sector, and has been a professor at Pacific Oaks College for over eight years teaching online and on ground courses in special education. She has a passion for teaching Special Education and mentoring new teacher candidates in general education and special education to better understand that all students have the capacity to learn, but it is up to educators to uncover the potential in every individual.

In addition to her work with Pacific Oaks College, Dr. Swindler presents at workshops and seminars, online and in face to face environments, teaching educators how to infuse Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory into every day teaching styles, along with Strengths Finder. The inclusion approach empowers educators to assist every student in the classroom despite unique learning styles. Dr. Swindler's vision in education seeks to create an intellectual understanding of a deep and lasting change to how students in special education must be included in general education classrooms, recognizing that there is a paradigm shift for the new millennium.

Dr. Swindler's doctorate dissertation, Effects of Teacher Training for Individual Differences to Improve the Academic Performance of Special Education Inclusion Students, includes projections for the transformational potential of all educators to become agents of change in support of students at all levels of learning, culturally, social-emotionally, and behaviorally.