The Workshop Collection

Good ideas, lightly worn. Some alterations available.

I've spent a fair amount of time developing and presenting workshops for educators, student support professionals, families, and organizations. These are some of the topics I return to most often.

The workshops below are based on presentations I've previously delivered or material I've already developed. They can be presented largely as-is or tailored to your particular audience.

Don't see exactly what you're looking for? That's what the Bespoke collection is for.

Neurodivergence & Student Support

ADHD, autism, tutoring, and the many unwritten rules students are apparently expected to know through osmosis.

Tutoring Neurodivergent Students: Practical Strategies That Make a Difference

Innovative Educators | Tutors, academic coaches, learning center staff

Practical strategies for supporting neurodivergent students, addressing executive functioning challenges, and building independence without lowering expectations or accidentally doing the student's work for them.

Understanding ADHD: Beyond "Just Use a Planner"

Originally developed for Foothill College MESA | Counselors, advisors, faculty

Explore executive functioning, time perception, task initiation, and emotional regulation, along with strategies that go considerably further than suggesting someone purchase another planner.

The Hidden Curriculum of College

Foothill-De Anza District Opening Day | Educators, administrators, student services

College is full of unwritten rules that everybody apparently agreed upon before the students arrived. This workshop identifies those invisible expectations and explores ways to make higher education more navigable.

Supporting Neurodivergent Learners in K-12 Education

University of San Francisco | Teachers, counselors, educational professionals

Move beyond diagnostic labels and accommodation checklists to explore communication, classroom expectations, student agency, and practical approaches to creating more inclusive learning environments.

Transitions & Independence

From high school to college, employment, and adult life. Independence is a destination, not an excuse to throw someone into the deep end.

Supporting the Transition to Independence for Neurodivergent Individuals

Stanford California Down Syndrome Conference | Families, educators, transition professionals

Independence isn't the absence of support. We explore expectations, self-advocacy, scaffolding, and how families and professionals can help young adults develop the skills and agency to direct their own lives.

Preparing for College: New Rules, New Responsibilities

Developed through Tools for Transition & Work | Students, families, transition teams

College operates differently from high school, and not all those differences are immediately obvious. This workshop explores accommodations, instructor expectations, self-advocacy, campus resources, and the practical realities of becoming a college student.

Teaching, Curriculum & Institutional Improvement

Better classrooms, more thoughtful curriculum, and fewer institutional obstacles masquerading as time-honored traditions.

Inclusive Design for All

Foothill-De Anza District Opening Day | Faculty, instructional designers, educational leaders

Accessibility shouldn't begin when somebody requests an accommodation. Explore how Universal Design for Learning, clearer communication, and thoughtful course design can improve learning for everyone.

Equity in the Course Outline

Curriculum development and faculty professional learning | Faculty, curriculum committees, administrators

Course outlines shape what students learn and how they're expected to demonstrate it. This workshop explores meaningful ways to integrate equity into course content, instructional methods, and assessment rather than simply adding decorative language before submitting the paperwork.

Student Learning Outcomes That Actually Mean Something

Curriculum and assessment professional development | Faculty, curriculum leaders, assessment coordinators

Develop meaningful, measurable outcomes and assessment practices that actually improve instruction. Ideally, we'll create something more useful than another spreadsheet that everyone agrees to update sometime next quarter.

On the Cutting Table

Some ideas are still taking shape. These aren't necessarily finished workshops yet, but they're subjects I'd particularly enjoy exploring with the right audience.

Belonging Is Infrastructure
Moving beyond accommodations to create environments where neurodivergent students can participate without constantly having to perform normal.

From Bus Stops to Independence
What happened when we taught public transportation as a practical skill and went from one or two students riding transit to nearly half the cohort.

Building a Transition Program That Actually Transitions
Lessons from developing Tools for Transition & Work, including curriculum, expectations, partnerships, and the sometimes complicated business of preparing students for what comes next.

Technology, Access & Agency
Artificial intelligence, assistive technology, educational platforms, and the difference between technology that empowers people and technology that simply makes decisions for them.

These are excellent candidates for a Bespoke workshop, or perhaps the beginnings of something new for the collection.

See Something You Like?

An existing workshop can be presented off the rack, adapted to your organization's particular needs, or used as the starting point for something entirely new.

And if you don't see what you're looking for, ask. There's a reasonable chance I've already explored something related, or would enjoy having an excuse to do so.

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