Teacher Tools: Creating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Classroom

📘 The Teacher’s Guide to Creating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Classroom
By Nicole Spartels | Educator, Neurodiversity Advocate & Wellbeing Coach

This guide is a powerful, practical resource for educators and schools who are ready to rethink the classroom through a neurodiversity-affirming lens. Based on lived experience—both as a late-diagnosed AuDHD teacher and as someone who has taught in over 50 schools—this eBook offers real-world strategies to support, uplift, and truly understand neurodivergent learners.

Inside, you'll find:

💡 Clear, compassionate guidance on shifting from control to connection
🧠 Practical tools for co-regulating and building emotional safety
✏️ Alternatives to token systems, reward charts, and traditional discipline
🌈 Ways to honour student autonomy, creativity, and individual learning needs
🧭 Prompts for self-reflection to help you unlearn outdated practices and step into a more inclusive, empowered teaching style
🔄 Actionable strategies for advocating change and creating a more neurodiversity-affirming environment

Whether you're a classroom teacher, homeschooling parent, or education leader, this eBook will help you build the kind of learning environment where every child feels safe to be themselves—and to thrive.

Because when kids feel seen, supported, and free to unmask, everything changes.