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Aaron Lanou
@aaronlanou.bsky.social
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Inclusive education consultant & coach

Interested in strengths-based approaches, differentiation & UDL, visual supports, executive functioning, neurodiversity-affirming practice

Also jump roping, pancakes, and relational databases

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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
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 ...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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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...
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.
www.k12dive.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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thinkingautism.com
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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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.”
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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We need eachother. But how to get along? @deanspade.bsky.social offers some first aid.
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Which tools can help people and social justice movements face conflict and come out stronger (rather than weaker)? “Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together” by @deanspade.bsky.social can teach us how to work together — better: bit.ly/3Ea2SqG
January 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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larryferlazzo.bsky.social
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...
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…
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January 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"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...
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.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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thinkingautism.com
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...
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.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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This week on Gay Takeaway, @aaronlanou.bsky.social and I dig into on all things pancakes! Pure maple syrup goodness.
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Takeaway Q&A: Pancake Special with Aaron Lanou 🥞
Beware the pancake fight-or-flight growl!
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December 6, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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"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...?

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December 3, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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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...
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, ...
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November 22, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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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.
November 19, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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🪨⛰️ 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! 🤿
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
November 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM