Transform Your Classrooms with Practical Professional Development for International Schools.
See the Spark, Unlock the Potential: Transform Your Approach to Neurodiversity
In the diverse, high-pressure environment of international schools, traditional strategies often miss the mark for neurodivergent, twice-exceptional and multi-exceptional learners. Our professional development moves beyond theory to provide practical, culturally-responsive frameworks that create classrooms where every unique mind can flourish.
About Our Key Specialist:
Our lead trainer is an inclusive learning specialist with a Master's in Education and over 25 years of experience in multicultural international classrooms. A fierce advocate for neurodivergent children, this specialist focuses on gifted, twice-exceptional and multi-exceptional learners. Deep expertise in TESOL and Neurodiversity is combined with personal lived experience to help educators create classrooms where every child feels seen, valued, and empowered to thrive. This is the teacher needed as a child.
Workshop 1:
Unlocking Potential: A Strengths-Based Approach to Neurodiversity in the K-8 Classroom
Move beyond simple awareness and learn to actively harness the power of neurodiversity in your classroom. This session equips you with a practical, strengths-based framework to help understand neurodiversity transforming your approach from accommodation to empowerment.
You will learn to:
- Spot Hidden Talents: Identify the unique strengths and cognitive advantages of students with ADHD, dyslexia, and autism
- Shift Your Language: Reframe challenges into opportunities, building student resilience and self-esteem
- Apply Practical Tools: Use evidence-based strategies that empower neurodivergent learners to thrive
- Build a Hopeful Classroom: Create a psychologically safe space where every student feels valued and understood
Target Audience: K-8 Teachers & Adults working with students
Duration: 60-90 Minute Presentation
Workshop 2:
The Twice-Exceptional Puzzle:
A Practical Roadmap for Gifted, Neurodivergent Learners
Unlock the extraordinary potential of your most complex and overlooked students. This professional development moves beyond theory to provide a practical roadmap for identifying and nurturing twice-exceptional (2e) and multi-exceptional learners — those who are both gifted and neurodivergent.
You will learn to:
- Confidently Identify 2e Students: Decode "spiky" profiles and behavioral signs that often mask giftedness
- Implement UDL with Ease: Apply simple, ready-to-use Universal Design for Learning strategies to engage all learners
- Reduce Friction, Unlock Potential: Transform intensities and overexcitabilities from challenges into superpowers
- Make an Immediate Impact: Walk away with concrete changes to boost student engagement and self-esteem the very next day
Target Audience: K-8 Teachers & Adults working with students
Duration: 60-120 Minute Workshop or Half-Day Intensive
Workshop 3:
Building Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools From Acceptance to Authentic Belonging and Flourishing
What if your school could transform from a place that merely accommodates differences to one where every student feels genuinely accepted, understood, and empowered to thrive? This professional development goes beyond strategy to focus on mindset, providing educators with the framework to build a truly neurodiversity-affirming culture.
You will learn to:
- Lead a Mindset Shift: Reframe neurodiversity from a deficit to a valuable form of human diversity in your school culture
- Amplify Student Voice: Implement practices that help students understand their own brains and become self-advocates
- Design for Authentic Belonging: Create classrooms that reduce anxiety and the need for masking, freeing students to learn
- Align Your Systems: Translate theory into action across assessment, communication, and behavior support for lasting change
Target Audience: K-8 Teachers & Adults working with students
Duration: 60-120 Minute Workshop or Half-Day Intensive
Workshop 4:
The Teacher I Needed as a Child:
An Inside Look at multi-exceptionality for an Inclusive, Thriving Classroom
What does it truly take to be the teacher who changes the trajectory of a neurodivergent child's life? This isn't a standard training session; it's an invitation to see the classroom through the eyes of a gifted student with Autism and ADHD. Drawing on powerful childhood stories, this presentation offers a rare, empathetic bridge into the inner world of your neurodivergent learners.
You will learn to:
- Gain a Profound New Perspective: See the school day through the lens of Autism and ADHD, transforming how you interpret behavior
- Leverage Innate Strengths: Use the powerful traits of neurodivergent minds (deep focus, creativity, pattern recognition) to solve common challenges
- Create a Ripple Effect of Calm: Discover how simple changes for one student reduce stress and increase engagement for everyone
- Become the Champion: Walk away empowered with the conviction and practical tools to be the educator that allows all students to flourish
Target Audience: K-8 Teachers & Adults working with students
Duration: 60-120 Minute Workshop or Half-Day Intensive
Ready to build a classroom where every student can flourish?
di Naomi Alison Woods
Località Marina Velca snc, Tarquinia (VT) Italia
P. Iva 02502590561
