Creating environments for neurodiverse learners

- Since we all, are all neurodiverse, our brains process information differently. And if we see many of our students as being much more vulnerable, maybe than other students are that rather than just looking at correcting and fixing and changing a child's behavior, we need to understand what their life experience is. You know, what are their emotional experiences, what are their memories about coming to school? How can we make school a more emotionally satisfying environment and ideally a place that a student is excited to come to because they know they're well supported, that they feel good physiologically, they feel good emotionally, they feel good in their relationships with people. And so I think that that's the message. We want students to be active, engaged learners, and we do that by providing strategies and environments that help them feel well-regulated emotionally. (upbeat music)