IEP meeting prep sheet
A one-page worksheet families fill in before a school meeting: what you have observed at home, which goals you want revisited, and the four questions worth asking every time.
Download the prep sheetResources & talks
Resources & Talks
UDL lesson planning template
A planning grid that forces the three UDL questions before a lesson is finished: how else can this be represented, engaged with, and demonstrated?
Download the templateExecutive function strategy cards
Twelve printable cards covering task initiation, working memory, and transitions — written for the student to use, not for an adult to read out.
Download the cardsA home reading routine that survives a bad day
A short guide for families of reluctant or anxious readers: how long to read, what to do when it stalls, and why stopping early is sometimes the right call.
Download the guideDesigning for the whole class: UDL in practice
A half-day professional development session on planning lessons with multiple entry points from the start. Includes a live redesign of a lesson brought by the group.
Session outline and slidesSupporting ASD and ADHD learners in the mainstream classroom
What the research supports, what it does not, and what actually fits inside a forty-minute period with twenty-eight other students in the room.
Slides and reading listReading the IEP: a workshop for families
A two-hour evening session walking families line by line through a real, anonymised IEP — what each section commits the school to, and where you can push.
Handout and recordingBC’s inclusive education policy, and what an IEP legally requires
The Ministry of Education's own page on inclusive education. It sets out what a board of education must do once a student is identified: design an IEP as soon as practical, and review it at least once every school year. If you want to know what the school is obliged to provide rather than what it is offering, start here.
Read the policyInclusive Education Policy Manual (PDF)
The full manual behind the policy page, including the guidelines for completing and presenting an IEP. Long, but it is the document school staff are working from — worth having open during a meeting.
Open the manualThe UDL Guidelines, version 3.0
CAST's framework for designing lessons that work for the whole class from the start. Version 3.0, released in July 2024, shifted the goal from "expert learners" to learner agency and added identity and bias as part of learner variability. This is the framework behind most of what I do.
Explore the guidelinesPOPARD: free autism outreach for any BC school
The Provincial Outreach Program for Autism and Related Disorders supports every public and independent school in BC at no cost — consultation, training, and a Family-School Liaison who can help when a concern cannot be resolved at the school level. Many families have never been told this exists.
Visit POPARDSET-BC: assistive technology, lent to your school
SET-BC lends reading, writing, and communication technology to BC school districts and trains both students and staff to use it. If a student needs text-to-speech or a communication device, this is the route that does not require buying anything.
Visit SET-BCInclusion BC
Provincial advocacy organisation for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Useful when a conversation with a school has stalled and you want to know what your options are.
Visit Inclusion BCUnderstood.org
The clearest plain-language explanations I know of for learning and thinking differences — what dyslexia, ADHD, dyscalculia, and executive function difficulties actually look like day to day. Written for parents, not for clinicians.
Visit UnderstoodCADDAC: Canadian ADHD Awareness, Education and Advocacy
Canadian rather than American, which matters — the education and healthcare context is different here. Good material on advocating for ADHD accommodations in a Canadian school.
Visit CADDACLD@school
Evidence-based classroom strategies for students with learning disabilities, ADHD, and other learning differences. Written for teachers, and specific enough to use on Monday morning.
Visit LD@schoolAutistic Self Advocacy Network
Autistic people writing about autism, rather than being written about. I recommend this to teachers and parents who want to understand how the language we use around a diagnosis lands on the person who has it.
Visit ASANLDS — Learn. Develop. Succeed.
The Vancouver non-profit where I work as a 1:1 instructor. Their RISE one-to-one programme supports children, youth, and adults with diagnosed or suspected learning differences, online across Canada and in person in East and North Vancouver.
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