Visual Supports • In-Person

Are you looking for a better way to hook and engage your class during lessons? Are Google images just not cutting it for adding visuals to slides, strategies, and handouts?

Visual supports are a powerful, UDL-aligned practice that help to make ideas more concrete for students. Unfortunately, visuals are sometimes underutilized or misused in inclusive education. Together we'll explore benefit of using meaningful visuals to clarify directions, simplify complex concepts, and create predictable structures for students.

In this interactive workshop you will:

• Discover many examples of visual supports
• Brainstorm how and when to use visuals in support of student learning and smooth classroom functioning
• Create digital and physical visual supports to use in your classroom
• Explore free digital resources to use to continue to create visual supports in your school

Participants receive:

• A certificate of completion for 5 contact hours of PD
• Visual Supports Quick Reference Guide
• Materials to turn-key core learnings to colleagues
• A surprise freebie to help your students (or you!) to learn, get organized, and self-regulate

The workshops provide teachers with a strengths-based lens and practical take-home strategies to make their classrooms inclusive and accessible to all students.

Workshops are limited to 20 participants to ensure participants have the materials, attention, and opportunities to interact that allow them to make this a valuable learning experience.

The location in downtown Brooklyn is accessible by many trains: 2 /3 / A / C / F / R / B / Q. Parking is also available.

About your facilitator

Aaron Lanou is an inclusive education coach working with teachers, schools, and organizations to implement strengths-based instruction and supports for autistic students and all kids with a variety of academic, executive functioning, and social support needs.

Through the lens of Universal Design for learning, Aaron works with educators to consider the kid in context, examining the environment, demands, and expectations as the starting point for helping students be successful. He specializes in helping teachers use clear and purposeful visual supports, focused graphic organizers, clarity and structure in instruction based on principles of learning and memory, and a range of executive functioning supports and other scaffolds. Committed to centering disabled perspectives, Aaron has learned from and alongside his students with disabilities and collaborates frequently with autistic colleagues and presenters.

A member of Carol Gray’s Team Social Stories, Aaron also provides Social Stories(TM) workshop and collaborates with Carol and the team to continually update and refine the Social Stories philosophy and approach.

Aaron started his career as a special education teacher and was previously Executive Director of the Nest Support Project at New York University, leading the nation’s largest inclusion program for autistic students. Aaron has presented nationally and internationally and has been adjunct faculty at Hunter College and NYU.

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