Name: Active & Interactive Learning • In-Person
Start: 2025-03-12T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-12T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Orchard Workspace by JLL

$Active & Interactive Learning \u2022 In-Person$

Engage ALL your students in class activities! Create catalysts for deep discussion and meaningful movement
About this Event

Ever give up on group work because it just falls apart and leads to conflict?

We know students learn best when they talk and actively work with their classmates, but it can be challenging to help all students meaningfully participate in class discussions and group work.

Join us to explore easy-to-use catalysts—activities to help all your students engage and participate and contribute. We'll look at (and try out!) "ingredients" that can be added to any lesson to increase whole-class participation, effective student interaction, and ultimately student engagement and learning.

In this interactive workshop you will:

Explore how to invite total participation in class discussions
Discover purposeful structured class talk protocols
Examine the role of movement in learning
Receive step-by-step directions and visual supports to help you implement techniques in your classroom
Engage in a variety of total participation techniques yourself

Participants receive:

A certificate of completion for 5 contact hours of PD
Active & Interactive Learning 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.

Find more info on Aaron's website