<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(33,37,41)">SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(33,37,41)"> “Affirming Neurodivergent Learners” Workshop facilitated
by guest speaker Leslie Bayer, Associate Director of the Center for Teaching
and Learning at the University of the Pacific:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Date: Thursday, February 16</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Time: 12-1:30 p.m</span>.</span> (No
registration is required)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(33,37,41)">Via </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.6667px;color:rgb(33,37,41)">Zoom: Meeting info is on the CTE Moodle site </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/PlattsburghCTE">https://tinyurl.com/PlattsburghCTE</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(33,37,41)">Academic
spaces are increasingly neurodiverse, but ableist practices and perspectives
continue to marginalize neurodivergent learners. In this interactive session,
we will consider how inherited educational expectations and dominant mindsets
around autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and a range of additional neurological
differences create barriers to student success. We will contrast those views
with the asset-based neurodiversity paradigm and discuss tangible approaches to
affirm and support neurodivergent learners. The teaching strategies we enact
with neurodivergent students in mind will help us better welcome and reach the
wide variety of learners in our classes.</span></p></div></div>