Neurodivergence in Practice

Campbell Hall and CATDC are partnering to co-create a two-part professional learning experience that centers educators’ intentional development of students’ executive functioning (EF) skills across grade levels and disciplines. Grounded in a neurodiversity-affirming framework and led by expert facilitator Lindsay Astor Grant, founder of Learning Redesigned, the program positions executive functioning as a universal set of skills that strengthen academic engagement, emotional regulation, collaboration, and lifelong learning for all students. The Summer Institute will be on EF practices for elementary school educators on August 3 and 4, and for middle and upper school educators on August 5 and 6. The program spans four days and is organized into two days dedicated to elementary educators and two days designed specifically for secondary educators, ensuring developmentally aligned content for each group.
August 3 and 5 will consist of intensive workshops designed for elementary and secondary educators, respectively. Participants will explore practical strategies to support core executive functioning domains, including task initiation and completion, time management and planning, self-monitoring and reflection, sustained and flexible attention, emotional regulation and self-control, organizational systems, and flexible thinking and problem solving. Emphasis will be on universal strategies used in daily routines and creating learning environments where diverse cognitive profiles are welcomed, understood, and supported. Elementary educators, administrators, and school teams should sign up for August 3. Secondary educators, administrators, and school teams should sign up for August 5. Educators who work across divisions are encouraged to sign up for both days.
August 4 and 6 offer each educator or school team an additional personalized opportunity to deepen their understanding of Executive Function and apply the strategies from the day-long intensives directly to the realities of their own classroom and school communities. With options for individual or small-cohort coaching with Lindsay, participants will be able to target priorities specific to their classroom and school cultures. This session is designed to provide space to ask questions, reflect, and develop an action plan with guidance tailored to educators’ unique context.
The program integrates classroom-ready tools and routines, mindfulness and emotional regulation practices, lesson plan integration strategies, differentiation techniques for neurodiverse learners, and family partnership approaches. Educators will examine how explicit instruction in EF skills improves student agency, self-confidence, collaboration, and empathy while strengthening motivation, engagement, and accountability.

Participants will:

• Leave equipped to curate classrooms where students understand how they learn, and how they can develop compassion for peers
• Create a toolkit of EF strategies that will strengthen students’ academic success and well-being across subject areas and grade levels
• Cultivate learning communities that value cognitive diversity

• Apply mindfulness and emotional regulation practices to strengthen focus, well-being, and classroom climate.
• Provide communication strategies to strengthen family partnerships that reinforce executive functioning strategies beyond the classroom.

The ideal participants are classroom teachers (Grades DK–12), learning specialists, instructional coaches, and support staff, school leaders seeking to strengthen inclusive practices and student engagement, and any educators interested in universal design, neurodiversity, and executive functioning development.

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SCHEDULE AND DATES

ELEMENTARY (Grades DK-6) SESSION: August 3, 2026 | 9:00am - 4:00pm

ELEMENTARY OPTIONAL COACHING: August 4, 2026 | 1-hour individual or team coaching

SECONDARY (Grades 5-12) SESSION: August 5, 2026 | 9:00am - 4:00pm

SECONDARY OPTIONAL COACHING: August 6, 2026 | 1-hour individual or team coaching

CANCELLATION POLICY

Life happens.

We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for.Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable. For our summer institutes refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 30 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 29 days or less prior to the first day of a summer institute.

Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.

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