Aaron Lanou

Summer Nuggets: Quick Workshops for Teachers on Vacation — Aaron Lanou Short on time but big on impact—Summer Nuggets are free 30-minute workshops packed with practical strategies for executive functioning and social-emotional learning. Designed for teachers who want to ...

Join me for some Summer Nuggets!

Free, bite-sized webinars that explore practical SEL and executive functioning strategies.

In 30 minutes, explore quick and helpful practices to add to your teaching repertoire.

www.aaronlanou.com/nuggets

#InclusiveEducation #ExecutiveFunctioning #SEL

08.07.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

High school students with autism gain college mentors in NYC program The Making Mentors program empowers college students with autism to provide representation for and build community with high school mentees.

Autistic college students mentoring autistic high school students is how it should be.

Continually impressed and inspired by @kristiekp.bsky.social and folks at NYU

www.k12dive.com/news/high-sc...

28.03.2025 01:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

KindleQuote graphic with a black background. White all-caps text reads, ““A neurodivergent person’s way of experiencing the world may differ from yours, but that’s normal. Just as we’ve come to understand variations in the human family, we should also understand neurological variations as ordinary.” Smaller yellow text underneath reads, “John Marble, Khushboo Chabria, et al.”

If you aren’t ND, please know that “A neurodivergent person’s way of experiencing the world may differ from yours—but that’s normal. Just as we’ve come to understand variations in the human family, we should also understand neurological variations as ordinary.” @johnmarble.bsky.social:

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24.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 129    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 1

We need eachother. But how to get along? @deanspade.bsky.social offers some first aid.

21.01.2025 12:34 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change I’ve written A LOT about how to help students enhance their feelings of intrinsic motivation and help them want to change their behavior and attitudes. Many of us would also like to make chan…

Perhaps a good day to review this list, curated over past 15 yrs & informed by my 19 yr comm organ career & 22 yr teaching career———- Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/04/16/t...

20.01.2025 14:51 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Special ed students benefit from being integrated at school. It doesn't always happen Research shows including students with and without disabilities in the same classroom can benefit everyone. Two students with Down syndrome show what can be gained when that happens.

"Study after study is showing that there's no harm to being included, but there's great risks of harm to being segregated" —Jennifer Kurth
www.npr.org/2025/01/09/n...

10.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hm no, I didn’t have any problem. It took probably 20 minutes for 6,000+ bookmarks. They said they’d send an email but they didn’t—I just had to go back to the export page and the file was sitting there ready to download. Maybe that’s it?

24.12.2024 20:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Inclusive Education Links to practices, stories, and research about inclusive education

Just found it too, and loving it! Ported all my Diigo bookmarks over and I don’t think I’ll be looking back… Right now I’m playing with its public collections feature—
raindrop.io/alanou/inclu...

24.12.2024 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Here's what can be gained when students with disabilities are included in classrooms Students with certain disabilities are often excluded from general education classrooms. Two children with Down syndrome show what can be gained from more inclusion.

Research consistently shows no harm when disabled students are included in general ed classrooms, but great risks of harm when those students are segregated. Included kids not only develop better academic skills but better communication skills—and more. At @npr.org:

www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...

22.12.2024 20:11 — 👍 86    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 0

Takeaway Q&A: Pancake Special with Aaron Lanou 🥞 Beware the pancake fight-or-flight growl!

This week on Gay Takeaway, @aaronlanou.bsky.social and I dig into on all things pancakes! Pure maple syrup goodness.
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06.12.2024 20:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"The Primacy of Trust"—I just rediscovered this article from Barry Prizant about the importance of non-autistic support folks establishing trust with autistic folks. Though 15 years old it could be written (and is still needed) today!

Is he on bluesky yet...?

barryprizant.com/wp-content/u...

03.12.2024 02:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Susan!

03.12.2024 02:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💪✨ and thank you!

23.11.2024 01:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll have to check out the recording! There were lots of good options—it’s always a bit overwhelming to have to choose!

22.11.2024 20:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Simple Visuals for Deep Thinking — Aaron Lanou We teach many important concepts to students that may be too abstract for them to grasp with explanations alone. Visual supports make abstract concepts more concrete for students, helping them learn, ...

Using visuals can help concretize abstract concepts for autistic students—and lots of other kids

I wrote a how-to with some great free resources to help!

#VisualSupports #InclusiveEducation #UDL

www.aaronlanou.com/resources/vi...

22.11.2024 20:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The truest measure of #UDL implementation is the absence of blaming for non-learning. We stop blaming students, families/caregivers, and educators and look instead for barriers in design.

19.11.2024 12:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I LOVED Square One TV! I still remember the Fibonacci sequence because of that parrot on Mathnet… 1-1-2-3-5-eureka! 🦜

19.11.2024 23:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We can carve out a little space and make it work for us… and hope it remains that way for as long as it can hold

19.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A group of workshop participants standing in a circle stretching their arms, smiling, and listening to someone talk

Aaron stands at a podium, talking into a microphone in front of a screen with a slide that reads an interpretive dance. next to him a workshop part participant takes a bow

Aaron stands at a podium with his hands clasped over his head to the right and in the foreground dozens of workshop participants sit in their seats with their hands clasped above their heads, pointing in various directions

🪨⛰️ How do we remove the boulders that come crashing down in kids' paths?

We have to rethink how school is designed.

I recently got to explore that redesign, with K-12 educators in Bedford Central School District.

Let’s use universal supports to better teach our snorkel kids... and everyone! 🤿

19.11.2024 15:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0