Educator Empowerment Model

Central to Project Eye-To-Eye's work is educating and empowering teachers and school professionals to support the unique learning needs of LD/ADHD students. Many teachers are simply not educated appropriately about LD/ADHD issues and alternative learning styles, and our schools are ill-equipped to provide individualized education on any systematic level. The current models for providing an equitable education to students with LD/ADHD are in crisis. The traditional special education model (a "pull-out" model) has proven ineffective, and the alternative, "inclusionary education" model (mainstreaming), places children with LD/ADHD in classrooms where teachers are unprepared to meet the students' specialized needs.

To address teachers' needs for access to basic information and an instruction in a non-deficit empowerment model, Project Eye-To-Eye offers resources, workshops and speakers' networks for K-12 and postsecondary educators. Please contact Project Eye-To-Eye for more information about any of our educator empowerment programs listed below:

Teaching Outside the Lines
Project Eye-To-Eye distributes Teaching Outside The Lines, a teacher empowerment guide, free of cost, to every teacher in our partner schools. Teaching Outside The Lines supports educators in understanding the emotional experience of labeled students, cultivating metacognitive skills in labeled students, developing self-directed learning strategies for LD/ADHD students, nurturing passion, and developing/implementing concrete accommodation plans.

Mouth-To-Mouth - Young LD/ADHD Public Speakers
A core element of Project Eye-To-Eye's educator programming is our grassroots speaking network. This is a speaker's bureau led by the Project Eye-To-Eye executive staff, consisting entirely of LD/ADHD individuals from our local chapters who are trained to deliver public presentations on their experiences to educators in their community.

On Site Workshops
Project Eye-To-Eye provides full or half-day workshops and teacher in-services, at a significantly reduced rate, for all of our partner institutions. These workshops are designed for K-12 educators, teachers in training, and university faculty and educational professionals using our asset-based empowerment model.

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