This series offers a deep dive into Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It is designed to help educators create learning environments where students with ADHD can move from compliance and struggle to engagement and agency. Participants will leave with practical tools and resources, including a reference guide on ADHD strengths and challenges, a classroom environment inventory, and an ADHD-friendly lesson planning guide. The series also features a resource repository with downloadable tools, case studies, and optional follow-up coaching.

Series Features:

• Between-session implementation challenges with follow-up discussion
• Resource repository with downloadable tools and templates
• Case study collection throughout the series to support transfer
• Participant feedback surveys to refine content and approach
• Optional follow-up coaching for interested districts

Expected Outcomes: Participants will leave with practical tools, systematic approaches, and organizational strategies to create universal learning environments where students with ADHD move from compliance to agency while benefiting all learners.

The professional learning series is divided into eight sessions, including two in-person sessions and each focusing on a specific aspect of supporting students with ADHD:

• November 5th, 2025, 9:00am – 2:30pm (in-person): Understanding ADHD – This session starts by challenging stereotypes and shifting mindsets, highlighting ADHD strengths like hyperfocus, creativity, resilience, and high energy. It also introduces concepts like Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Differentiated Instruction (DI), and Multilevel Systems of Support (MTSS).
• December 3rd, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00pm (virtual): Communication – This session focuses on how unclear communication can trigger executive function challenges. It provides strategies for building trust and using methods like chunking information and visual schedules to support working memory.
• January 7th, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00pm (virtual): Access & Representation – This session explores UDL principles for ADHD brains, including minimizing distractions, integrating movement, and using visuals to aid working memory and organization.
• February 4th, 2026, 4:00 – 5:00pm (virtual): Relevant & Authentic Experiences – This session highlights how ADHD brains crave novelty and purpose. It offers strategies to connect learning to students’ interests, explore authentic, performance-based approaches, and use their hyperfocus and creativity as learning advantages.
• March 4th, 2026, 4:00 – 5:00pm (virtual): Empowerment – This session focuses on providing students with voice and choice. It addresses the need for trust and autonomy, building independence with scaffolding, and helping students set and track realistic goals.
• April 1, 2026, 4:00 – 5:00pm (virtual): Student-Led Interactions – This session covers creating ADHD-inclusive communities and collaborative structures that account for social challenges. It also discusses using students with ADHD as peer mentors and leaders.
• May 6, 2026, 9:00am – 2:30pm (in-person): Systemic Support and Sustainability – This session focuses on creating school-wide systems to sustain support for students with ADHD beyond individual teachers. It covers Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), data analysis and additional instruction/intervention, and creating a school culture that values all students’ strengths.