Live Your Best Teacher Life!

 Hi!  We’re Paula and Michele, owners and creators of Inspired Together Learning.

We are award winning educators who have traveled the world together teaching, learning, speaking, conducting workshops and doing our part to try to make the world a better place. We’re also the authors of The Inspired Teacher’s Journal: A Weekly Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. 

We’ve observed teaching and learning in hundreds of schools, in dozens of states and even around the world, including Germany, Ecuador, Uganda and Canada. We’ve been in thousands of classrooms and worked with some of the best teachers in the world.

We’ve also attended and presented at hundreds of conferences, workshops and trainings.

Our experiences have given us an incredible perspective.

We’ve seen teaching and learning from every angle and we know what good teaching and learning looks like. 

A little more about us…

Paula Schmidt, Ed.D.

Paula holds a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Special Education from Winona State, a Master’s degree with an emphasis on Students-At-Risk from Marian College, and an Ed.D in Special Education from The University of Northern Iowa. She is a licensed special educator. Her experience includes teaching K-12 students with special needs as well as preparing future teachers as college professor,  Education Department Chair and University Dean.

Paula is known as a passionate and hardworking educator. She is an energetic speaker who has worked with and presented to teachers around the world. She loves traveling, reading, and meeting new people.

Paula has a passion for inspiring others, whether online or in person. Paula’s work as a special education teacher taught her to see the strengths and potential in people and situations, a skill she uses daily in all aspects of her life. She is energized by thinking out-of-the box and enthusiastically challenges others to do the same.

Paula lives in Dubuque, Iowa with her husband. She has three active children. When she is not working, you can find her driving her children to their many activities or sitting on the deck relaxing with her family or friends.

Michele Vosberg, Ph.D.

Michele a life-long educator. She holds a B.S. in Education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an M.S. from UW Madison in Curriculum and Instruction, and a Ph.D. in Professional Studies in Education from Capella University.

Michele is known as an inspirational educator. She has a passion for developing human potential. She writes, speaks and conducts workshops that help people to use their strengths and talents to bring their unique gifts to the world.

Michele is a certified Enneagram teacher. She has conducted Enneagram trainings with teachers as well as at Fourtune 500 companies. She is also author of the book Morning Messages: 6 Minutes a Day to the Life of Your Dreams and co-author of the book Time To Fly: Dream, Plan, Act. 

Her knowledge and experience in education is both deep and wide. In addition to her work as a trainer, speaker, writer and coach, she has many year’s experience teaching in elementary and middle schools and training teachers. She is a licensed Reading Specialist. She also worked to design and develop Professional Development Schools and was a founder of the National Association for Professional Development Schools.

Michele lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and cats, Gatsby and Sassenach. She also has two grown daughters. When she is not working, you can find her sitting in an Adirondack chair with a book. She also loves to swim, sail and paddle a kayak around a quiet lake.