Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to support neurodiverse learners by better understanding how brains work. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Michael Weingarth of Connecticut.

In our conversation we discuss:

1️⃣ Why we need to assume all learners have undiagnosed learning differences and how our brains work when processing new information

2️⃣ The systematic issues that create a fundamentally flawed educational infrastructure for neurodiverse learners

3️⃣ What we need to be doing to help students succeed on the micro and macro level

Links to check out:

• Michael’s website “Pillars of Learning”

• Twitter thread by Mac Shine about mid brain research and role of the thalamus governing development of adaptive neural pathways

• The book Executive Function & Child Development by Marcie and Daniel Yeager

• Michael’s pinned tweet which summarizes why and how we negate a lot of useful science and ideas about neural development with math pedagogy