Together, Neural Education and Shifted Perspectives bring complementary expertise in educational neuroscience, research-informed learning practices and instructional design, inclusive systems, belonging, and neurodiversity-affirming approaches.

Thursday, August 13, 2026 | 1:00 - 4:00 pm (PT) | Virtual

Neuroscience Foundations for Inclusive Learning Environments

Educators consistently ask: What does this actually look like for neurodivergent and disabled learners in real classrooms? This session answers that question. We’ll translate neuroscience concepts into actionable, neurodiversity-affirming practices that expand access, engagement, and participation for all learners. Building on the learning from the Neuroscience Foundations Institute, participants will explore concrete examples, instructional strategies, environmental supports, and implementation tools designed specifically to support neurodivergent and disabled students across general and special education settings.

This session moves beyond theory into the daily decisions educators make about classroom design, regulation supports, learner variability, and student engagement. Participants will leave with practical ideas they can immediately apply to create more inclusive, responsive, and brain-aligned learning environments.

Participants will:

  • Apply neuroscience concepts such as neuroplasticity, myelination, and regulation through a neurodiversity-affirming lens

  • Explore practical strategies that reduce environmental barriers for neurodivergent and disabled learners

  • Examine examples of inclusive supports, structures, and classroom routines that increase learner access and engagement

  • Consider how to universally design learning environments that better respond to learner variability

  • Reflect on implementation challenges and engage in collaborative discussion around inclusive practice and concerning behavior

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Thursday, August 13, 2026 | 9:00am - 12:00pm (PT)

Neuroscience of Equity for Inclusive Learning Environments

This session helps educators connect neuroscience, belonging, identity, and inclusive practice through implementation-focused learning designed for today’s classrooms. Participants will explore practical strategies, examples, and tools that help reduce barriers for neurodivergent and disabled learners while strengthening equitable learning conditions for all students.

Grounded in the learning from the Neuroscience of Equity Institute, this session focuses on the real-world application of neuroscience and equity-centered practices through classroom structures, instructional decisions, relationship-centered approaches, and inclusive systems design. Educators will leave with actionable ideas and a stronger framework for creating learning environments that intentionally support learner variability, engagement, and belonging.

Participants will:

  • Apply neuroscience concepts through equity-centered and neurodiversity-affirming approaches

  • Explore how belonging, identity, and classroom conditions influence learner engagement and access

  • Examine practical strategies that reduce barriers for neurodivergent, disabled, and marginalized learners

  • Reflect on instructional practices, systems, and assumptions that impact participation and inclusion

  • Consider how inclusive learning environments can be universally designed to support every learner

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Inclusion in Practice

You asked for more implementation support. These sessions connect neuroscience and neurodiversity-affirming practices to daily instruction and learning design.

Across our institutes, educators consistently ask:

  • What does this look like for neurodivergent and disabled learners?

  • How do I apply these neuroscience concepts in real classrooms?

  • What structures, supports, and practices actually increase access and engagement?

We are proud to offer these sessions in partnership with ShiftEd Perspectives who will lead us in moving from research and theory into meaningful classroom implementation focused on practical application, inclusive learning design, neurodiversity-affirming practices. Educators will leave with concrete strategies they can immediately bring into their classrooms, teams, and schools.

Each Inclusion in Practice session serves as a follow-up learning experience connected to either the Neuroscience Foundations Institute or the Neuroscience of Equity Institute.

Registration Information

$49 each session

Reduced Registration (50%): BIPOC, LGBTQIA, & New-to-the-profession Educator Scholarships. Apply here. You will receive a Coupon Code to use during registration. Coupon code is applied at checkout. 

*Starting October 1, 2025, Neural Education events with a registration fee are subject to Washington sales tax.

Building learning environments where neuroscience, belonging, and inclusive practice work together to expand access for every learner.

Up to 4.5 Washington State clock hours are available for an additional fee.