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Blog posts are designed to accompany The Neurodivergent Toolkit & Workshop. But everyone can take something from each one and apply it tomorrow.

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👀 Part 6: Students Learn Better When These 3 Needs Are Met

👀 Part 6: Students Learn Better When These 3 Ne...

Autonomy helps students feel invested, motivated, and safe.Belonging helps students feel safe enough to engage, fail and know it will still be cared for.Competence helps students creatively pursue challenges instead...

👀 Part 6: Students Learn Better When These 3 Ne...

Autonomy helps students feel invested, motivated, and safe.Belonging helps students feel safe enough to engage, fail and know it will still be cared for.Competence helps students creatively pursue challenges instead...

👀 Part 5: Attention Follows Value, Not Just Directions

👀 Part 5: Attention Follows Value, Not Just Dir...

Explain it clearly. Tell students to focus. Repeat the directions. That's still most of the advice out there — and it's not how attention works. Attention isn't a control-it skill....

👀 Part 5: Attention Follows Value, Not Just Dir...

Explain it clearly. Tell students to focus. Repeat the directions. That's still most of the advice out there — and it's not how attention works. Attention isn't a control-it skill....

👀Part 4: How Do Learned Priorities Become Automatic?

👀Part 4: How Do Learned Priorities Become Autom...

Reinforced behavior is predictable. Once a pathway is carved, the brain runs the same script over and over. That's not a flaw. It's an efficiency. The brain doesn't want to...

👀Part 4: How Do Learned Priorities Become Autom...

Reinforced behavior is predictable. Once a pathway is carved, the brain runs the same script over and over. That's not a flaw. It's an efficiency. The brain doesn't want to...

👀 Part 3: How Does The Brain Learn What's Important?

👀 Part 3: How Does The Brain Learn What's Impor...

Your brain is not a passive recorder. It's a forecasting machine. Every moment, it's predicting what will happen next — based on everything it's ever experienced before. Every time the...

👀 Part 3: How Does The Brain Learn What's Impor...

Your brain is not a passive recorder. It's a forecasting machine. Every moment, it's predicting what will happen next — based on everything it's ever experienced before. Every time the...

👀Part 2: How Does The Brain Decide?

👀Part 2: How Does The Brain Decide?

Lisa Feldman Barrett's research introduces a word your students need (and you do too): interoception — sensing the body's internal signals. Right now, your brain is listening to your stomach,...

👀Part 2: How Does The Brain Decide?

Lisa Feldman Barrett's research introduces a word your students need (and you do too): interoception — sensing the body's internal signals. Right now, your brain is listening to your stomach,...

👀 How Does The Brain Notice?

👀 How Does The Brain Notice?

When a student's behavior is throwing the classroom off, remember: their brain noticed something. Something flagged as important. Something that mattered to them, even if you can't see it yet....

👀 How Does The Brain Notice?

When a student's behavior is throwing the classroom off, remember: their brain noticed something. Something flagged as important. Something that mattered to them, even if you can't see it yet....