
Zack Ponder
Former special education teacher turned homeschool dad, small business owner, and host of the UNspecial Podcast — a community supporting parents of children with special needs.
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Aug 4, 2026
What a Special Education Teacher Taught Me About Presuming Competence | Zack Ponder
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I think the hands down the biggest and most powerful lessons or takeaways, insights, whatever I took from being a teacher for seven years was how amazing and capable and smart and intelligent that my students were.

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But particularly my first two years of profound autism, non-speaking and violent.

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And I remember like a month into it and I didn't do any of the teacher training because the districts were so desperate for teachers.

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So they let me just do my internship as a teacher the first year, which meant I was the teacher.
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