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Zack Ponder

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.

Aug 4, 2026

14:05
Could you speak to that at all?
14:07
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.
14:26
I mean, remind you, they were for five years.
14:29
I mean, I only taught life skills.
14:32
But particularly my first two years of profound autism, non-speaking and violent.
14:37
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.
14:45
So they let me just do my internship as a teacher the first year, which meant I was the teacher.

12 MINS LATER

26:43
Yeah.

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