Aaron Lanou Consulting

05/01/2026

I spent an incredible week with some dedicated educators at the Acera school and from across Denmark!

We explored purpose driven, student-led playful approaches to learning, and how to design them so they are accessible and joyful for all kinds of kids.

Behold the choice! wonder! and delight! in the students’ and grown-ups’ experiences with 💡 circuit challenges and ⛳️ 3D printed golf ball launchers and 🌳 tree fort net design and 👟 sandals sharing stories and 🧽 cleaning dance parties and 🤖 the group’s silly walking Lego Spike robots

Thank you to Playful Learning DK + Acera School + Tufts CEEO + Anne + Lise + Sarah + Elissa !

04/09/2026

Have you ever fallen into the trap of: “If I’ve taught, they’ve got it.”

Sometimes our students don’t got it. When this happens, it’s not about kids needing to “trying harder.”�
It’s about the scaffolds we did—or didn’t—include in the design of our instruction.

Check out some thoughts about these missing links between teaching and learning: practical scaffolds you can offer to make learning more accessible to more students.

And stay tuned for Part 2 with specific examples!

MissingLinks

11/06/2025

Providing clarity. Offering flexibility. Listening. And sharing meeting agendas in advance!

These are just some of the shifts in practice we explored at my workshop on creating a neuroinclusive workplace with the staff at Count Basie Center for the Arts.

🔵 Participants created Personal User Manuals to get a feel for the process of sharing and listening to each other’s needs
🟡 They reflected on and responded to the experiences of the workplace from neurodivergent advocates
🟢 And folks committed to practices they can each take to make their workplaces and teams more inclusive of all kinds of brains and bodies

Thank you Jessica O’Brien for inviting me back, and thanks y’all for your commitment to making work, work for more people!

07/08/2025

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 🔗

03/18/2025

🪶 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. 💙

02/24/2025

12/14/2024

11/19/2024

🪨⛰️ 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! 🤿

09/27/2024

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)

09/01/2024

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.

08/26/2024

🚇 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…? 🤞🏻