For Educators & Teachers

📖 3 min. Classroom-ready

You teach neurodivergent kids every day, whether or not they’re diagnosed and whether or not anyone told you. One in four of your students is wired differently. Most are masking, exhausted, or quietly labeled “not trying.”

This page is written for teachers, aides, and school staff. Plain language, classroom-ready. Each guide explains what’s actually happening inside an ADHD or AuDHD brain, then hands you language you can use with the student, with parents, and in IEP and 504 conversations.

Start here

If you read one thing first, start with the late-diagnosis guide. It reframes the student you’re most likely to misread.

By topic

Each guide has a companion written for the classroom, with the full Authority page underneath it:

• Late-Diagnosed ND. Now What? — For educators · full Authority page
• ADHD Brain Chemistry: A Real Deep Dive — For educators · full Authority page
• ADHD Strengths: How to Weaponize Them — For educators · full Authority page
• ADHD Coaching vs. Therapy — For educators · full Authority page

Screening & classroom tools

Pattern-recognition tools you can take yourself first, then use to understand a student:

• Which framework explains this student’s experience? (4 min)
• What’s affecting executive function today? — EF triage (3 min)
• Spotting the masking style most adults miss (3 min)