A Tennessee microschool nurturing discovery & neurodiversity: Former public school teacher Rachel Good on being a founder

Rachel Good is the founder of Discovery Learners’ Academy (DLA), a microschool that opened in Chattanooga, Tennessee in fall 2022. Rachel worked for more than 8 years as a public school teacher in Washington and Tennessee before launching DLA as a state-recognized PreK-12 private school with a personalized educational approach. It opened with 21 learners and today has 50—about 15 of whom attend part-time as homeschoolers. About half of the school’s students are neurodiverse, a population that Good caters to as a former special education teacher. 

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