As a special education teacher with over two decades of experience, and someone who has both personal and professional connections to ADHD, I found this course to be a refreshing and deeply validating journey. Centered around ADHD Is Awesome by Penn and Kim Holderness, the course went far beyond textbook definitions. It offered an honest, hopeful, and at times humorous look into the lived experience of ADHD, encouraging educators to embrace a strengths-based lens. I appreciated how the course balanced essential knowledge (like attention modulation and executive functioning challenges) with reflection and creativity. The emotional layers of ADHD were explored with compassion, and the activities pushed me to think differently about how I support my students. Best of all, I walked away with real, practical strategies including how to design learning tasks that lean into the unique strengths of ADHD learners, like creativity, hyperfocus, and outside-the-box thinking. Whether you’re new to teaching or a veteran like me, this course will challenge and inspire you to see ADHD not as a problem to “manage,” but as a difference to celebrate and support. Highly recommended.

This class was so helpful! The book is accessible and organized in a good way. You have to realize the book is not one size fits all and your students have unique factors that could impact how ADHD shows up for them. The facilitator had original and creative ways that you could show your learning. This class helped me think of structures, scaffolds, and how to connect with my ADHD students in ways that show their assets and build their confidence. Highly recommend!

This course was amazing! The book read more like a novel rather than a textbook, which made is much easier to read after a full day's work. The assignments were all meaningful and can easily be translated into the classroom. I also loved how the instructor gave multiple options in how we could present our assignments. Highly recommend!