Author of The Freelance Educator: Practical Advice for Starting Your Educational Consulting Business, Tinashe Blanchet is a former high school math teacher with over 20 years of experience in education and teacher training. She has traveled around the United States to train thousands of teachers on using technology to enhance their instruction. Tinashe has built a strong reputation as a skilled communicator and tech-savvy educator and has presented at local, state, national, and international education conferences and events, including ISTE and NCTM.
Tinashe has been featured on podcasts including Hubspot’s The Growth Show and Every Classroom Matters. She has also been written about and quoted in several publications, including the New Orleans Advocate, The Arizona Education News Service and The Hechinger Report. Tinashe’s work as an educator, speaker and community leader has been recognized locally and nationally. Tinashe was selected as one of New Orleans’ ‘40 under 40’, featured in the national Macaroni Kid newsletter as a ‘Mom Making Waves’, and chosen to speak at TEDxTulane.
With a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Tinashe has served as a non-profit founder and director, college instructor and independent educational consultant. She is now the product specialist for Equatio at Texthelp, a company that creates an award-winning suite of products that helps millions of people read, write and research with confidence worldwide. Tinashe is also an Albert Hamilton Collins Fellow at Auburn University, working towards earning her Ph.D. in mathematics education.
From Louisiana to London
Tinashe with “Team Heart” at the London 2017 Google Innovator Academy. Tinashe served as the only Innovator Coach from the US at this event, supporting team members from Canada, Jordan, Singapore, London, Chicago and Hartford, CT. This was a very special “full circle moment” for Tinashe. Only five years earlier, she became a Google Certified Innovator by attending the Google Teacher Academy in London.
Select Clients + Engagements
Companies + Universities
BUREAU OF EDUCATION & RESEARCH
PESI
KNOWLEDGEHOOK
TEXTHELP
TULANE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Events + Organizations
FUTURE OF EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (FETC)
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (ISTE)
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS (NCTM)
RETHINK LEARNING SUMMIT
UNITED IN EDTECH CONFERENCE
Schools + Districts
ENUMCLAW SCHOOL DISTRICT (SEATTLE)
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC ACADEMY (HAWAII)
DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER SCHOOLS (NH)
MAHWAH TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS (NJ)
NORWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS (BOSTON)
SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
SHUMATE MIDDLE SCHOOL (DETROIT)
From 2014 to 2020, Tinashe launched and ran a successful non-profit organization, the Learning Laboratory New Orleans. Watch to learn more about her work at the Lab.
Tinashe talks about her book, The Freelance Educator, on the Flipboard EDU podcast with William Jeffery.
What people say about Tinashe
“I felt like I learned a lot from you and it is because you are authentic. Keep doing what you are doing because you rock at it and, because of you, I know I can do it too. Thank you!”
“Ms. Blanchet was brilliant. I truly enjoyed her approach, and I learned so much.”
“Just wanted to let you know that you have made a change in my classroom. Thanks for all the valuable information.”
“This may have been the best PD I’ve attended in twenty-one years of teaching. Well organized, fully informative—thank you!”
“Your content is excellent, but your motivation and enthusiasm is uniquely encouraging.”
“Thank you so much. You are clearly an EDUCATOR first, which is a valuable characteristic in a PD presenter. So much of what you did was about making everyone feel valued and heard and able to learn. Thank you, too, for reminding us time and again that it doesn’t matter what bells and whistles we use, but that our impact on kids is most important.”
“As a veteran educator and creator of the nonprofit Learning Laboratory New Orleans, Blanchet is aware of a need to teach to the times.”
“Tinashe Blanchet, the educational expert from New Orleans, said schools always have to remember that true personalization comes from the relationship between teacher and student.”
“Tinashe Blanchet’s job is to make learning math fun. If you just groaned or rolled your eyes at that statement, you helped prove her point.”