John Shackelton

Biographical Information
"John Shackelton has been an educator for thirty-four years. His twenty-two years of teaching experience have included lower elementary, middle and high school, and college; he has served as head of three alternative schools, most recently Rainbow Mountain Children's School in Asheville, N.C. John is semi-retired and currently teaches as a part-time adjunct at AB-Tech Community College in Asheville. He is on the board of an alternative school which emphasizes learning in the natural world, Mountain Sun Community School in Brevard, N.C. He also does educator training workshops focused on teaching as a sacred work. He has one published novel, The Lowly Papers, a story of Appalachia."

Affiliations

 * Council, Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World