Aaron Lanou Consulting

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘀
Free webinar on creating SEL emotion check-ins, with levity~~

July 16 • 1:00 pm eastern

Join me to learn how to do emotion check-ins with your students that are:
😌 Low pressure
🤩 Engaging
🤣 Sometimes wicked funny!

Kids are carrying a lot these days. It’s super important for them to have a way to check in with their emotions.

The 1st of the Summer Nuggets—free, bite-sized webinars that explore practical social-emotional learning and executive functioning strategies!

Link to register in bio 🔗

🪶 Voltaire wrote, “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

But oof that can be tough as a teacher…

Join me at my 2025 PINE Summit workshop on Social Humility. We’ll explore:
🟣 the “𝗛𝗺𝗺...” that helps us be truly curious 
🟣 the “𝗢𝗵.” that allows us to see new perspectives 
🟣 and the “𝗔𝗵𝗮!” when a new way forward is revealed! 

Link in bio!

Certainty is not only absurd—it tricks us, and it severs connections. Let’s do the work to understand people who see the world a little differently. 💙

How do we get all students engaged, thinking, and sharing in the inclusive classroom? We have to design class discussions that involve choice, structure, and invite total participation! Whether because of anxiety, peer pressure, confusion, or language processing differences, it can be hard to design instruction so that students are really able and comfortable to participate. “Say Anything” is a simple, low-prep strategy I developed that creates a safe, low-pressure structure for students to share their ideas. It gives them options and time to process their thoughts, while still encouraging participation. Check out my related resource on my website (link in bio) and grab a free Google Slides template to use in your lessons! #InclusiveEducation #ClassDiscussion #SayAnything

👋🏼🤸🏽‍♂️👂🏽👃🏼🦶🏾 Supporting sensory needs requires starting from the foundation: Before we expect students to learn to self-regulate, we need to 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 sensory differences (all 8 of them!) and 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 students when their experiences differ from our own. We can then 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗳𝘆 the environment to reduce triggers, and 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 supports and tools to help them be as comfortable as possible in our all-too-often uncomfortable classrooms that weren’t designed with them in mind.

🪨⛰️ How do we remove the boulders that come crashing down in kids’ path up the mountain of learning?

We have to rethink how school is designed.

A few days back I got to explore some of the universal, tier-one supports that can be part of that redesign, with an audience of hundreds of K-12 educators in Bedford Central School District.

We did deep work... while moving our bodies around the theater space—
🤸🏽‍♂️ We reflected on the value of written directions... while doing a stretch
🙆🏽‍♀️ We located ourselves along a continuum of neurological variability... by waving our arms around
🕺 We explored the importance of offering choice ... in the form of an interpretive dance?

I’m grateful to the leadership and staff of Bedford Central School District for inviting me and engaging in this important work. Thank you to Superintendent Dr. Robert Glass, Amy Fishkin, Toni Ann Carey, Wendy Belzberg, and Lauren Hough Williams.

Excited to hear about the next steps for this work in the district to support their snorkel kids... and everyone! 🤿

Writing directions and incorporating movement are great tier-one practices for students… and not too shabby for adult learners, too!

Check out all the ways I modeled tier-one inclusive supports in my work facilitating two weeks of workshops with educators in Denmark 🇩🇰

(Link in bio)

Wørkshops in Århus about visuals and dynamICONs with the stellar team at Katrinebjergskolen!

Over 100 teachers and pedagogues and leaders grappled with how to see—and stop!—barriers to learning / explored why visual supports help students process and learn and remember and regulate / and practiced the 7 dynamICONs to make their directions more clear and concrete.

And we got to do this all in beautiful surroundings of

One teacher shared he had an “epiphany” (it took a little while to come up with the English word) that inclusive practices that are what some students absolutely need… *don’t harm anyone* YES!

Tak! to the leadership of Katrinebjergskolen for inviting me.

🚇 Transit Quest 2024 was full of fun field trips to cool MTA sites (abandoned City Hall station!), transit games (Jeopardy and the $100,00 Pyramid), and tons of train knowledge sharing (Does ANYONE know when the CBTC conversion will be completed system-wide??).

Most of all it was filled with connection. 20 neurodivergent teens who are passionate about trains and transit, sharing and collaborating and learning and laughing and at New York Transit Museum .

I’m so privileged to have been able to co-facilitate this gem of a program—one that shows the power and potential when we create spaces where young people can fully engage in their interests among like-minded peers.

Thanks and appreciation to the NY Transit Museum, the fantastic facilitators, and the Questers. See you at a future Parade of Trains…? 🤞🏻