Bring Diana to your school or organization

Known for her contagious energy and extensive knowledge, Diana brings her presentations to life and engages a wide variety of audiences including parents, teachers, educational therapists, and more. All presentations can be adapted for 45 minutes, 90 minutes, half-day, or full-day workshops. Sessions can also be tailored for parents, teachers, educational therapists, or mixed audiences. Interested in a topic not quite captured by one single presentation? Diana can work with you to adapt the content to meet your specific professional development, training or webinar needs.

Topics

Structured Literacy

Structured Literacy: Best Practices for Everyone, Life-saver for Some

Learn the ins and outs of Structured Literacy so that you can be a savvy consumer and an effective educator and meet the needs of all your students.

The Neurobiology of Literacy Learning and the Big Five of Effective Instruction

Explore what is going on under the hood when students learn to master reading and writing and discover the components of effective instruction that will get them there.

Phonemes, Graphemes and Morphemes, Oh My!

Go beyond the basic definitions of the components of our language to learn the hows and whys of all the important terminology to become a more effective educator.

Reading and Writing Sentences

Take your students beyond punctuation and grammar to a deeper understanding of how language works.

The Who, What, When and Why of Reading Instruction

Join Diana to learn to more accurately assess your students, no matter their diagnosis and to craft an intervention specific to their individual needs.

Strategies to Get Reluctant Writers Writing (and Comprehending Better, Too!)

In this presentation, Diana will explore different profiles of reluctant readers and offer hands-on, easy-to-implement, fun ways to get those reluctant writers writing.

Writing: From Encoding to Empowerment (all day workshop)

Join Diana to explore the big picture of writing instruction, from spelling words to writing to change the world and a framework for integrating the two.

Speech to Print: Supercharging Structured Literacy

Learn about Speech-to-Print, why it is so effective, and how it fits into your current OG and Structured Literacy practice.

Words, Sentences, Paragraphs and Texts: Teaching students every level of writing

Explore each level of writing from spelling through writing full essays and narratives and discover how they fit together into an integrated whole to deepen your understanding and enhance your teaching.

Math

What’s Math Got to Do with It?: Math Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia and ADHD

Join Board certified educational therapist Diana Kennedy to learn the symptoms and causes of Math Learning Disabilities and their relationships with dyslexia and ADHD, what those difficulties look like, and the best way to address them.

Integrate, Increment, Scaffold and Be Explicit: Four Pillars of Math Instruction for All Our Kids

Join Board-Certified Diana Black Kennedy to explore dyscalculia and learn a solid framework for teaching math, as well as specific games for addressing a wide range of math-related weaknesses.

Using Math Games to Develop Number Sense, Combat Anxiety & Differentiate Instruction

Join BCET Diana Black Kennedy to learn how and why games are key to teaching math, and most importantly, to learn a whole bunch of them!

Learning Disabilities and Neurodivergences

Adventures in Neurodiversity: Framing, Remediating and Responding to Learning Disabilities

In this presentation, Diana presents a framework and teaching approach informed by neurodiversity. Teachers will be able to assess their practices and adjust them to help all students achieve their potential.

Play-full Approaches to ADHD

BCET Diana Black Kennedy and MFT Holly Seerely will share techniques to integrate play into the academic, social and emotional work our students must do to learn, grow and heal.

Domain General Pathways to Literacy Challenges

Join board certified educational therapist Diana Kennedy to explore the effects of working memory, processing speed, statistical learning and executive functioning on literacy learning, best-practices in remediation and implications for assessment.

Understanding and Supporting All Students

Join Board Certified Educational Therapist Diana Black Kennedy to do a deep dive into the big five: dyslexia and SLI, ADHD, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and Autism.

Don’t Forget the Academics: Autism, Oral Language, and Literacy

Join Board Certified Educational Therapist Diana Black Kennedy to explore the current understanding of this neurodivergence and best practices in helping these students succeed in reading and writing across the grade levels.

Multiple Pathways to Poor Reading Comprehension

Join board certified educational therapist Diana Kennedy to explore the neurobiology of literacy acquisition, the unique obstacles different learners face, and the newest understanding of best-practices in remediation for each.

Social Justice

The Empathy Solution

The presentation draws from recent insights in neuroscience, attachment, and neuroplasticity to offer educators a roadmap for transforming school discipline—an approach that improves learning and leads to equity and justice.

How Privilege, Power, and Bias Impact Education

Join board certified educational therapist Diana Kennedy to explore the concrete steps we can take to best support all our diverse students through a social justice and equity lens.

Social-Emotional Learning

Crying Kids Can’t Learn to Spell: How to Attend to the Socio-emotional Needs of Your Students and Still Teach Everything Else

This presentation explores the science of stress and of attachment teaching and will provide a framework and practical lessons to integrate socio-emotional attunement with academic goals.

The Power Of Personal Narratives

Join board certified educational therapist Diana Kennedy to explore the many facets and ways to harness the Power of Personal Narrative from emotional regulation to personal growth and development.

Gamefication for the Win! Incorporating Games into Your Educational Practice

Join a board-certified educational therapist to discover how and why to incorporate games into your teaching practice without compromising rigor.

Assessment

Always Be Assessing: Bridging the Gap between Assessment and Instruction

Join Board Certified Educational Therapist Diana Black Kennedy to discover how and why to harness the power of informal, formative assessments to create the most effective individualized educational plan for your students.

Looking for Patterns in the Data

Discover guiding principles, important lenses and meaningful patterns to help you go from lots of information to powerful interpretations that can inform your intervention.

Other

Can I Work with This Kid?

Through a look at two case studies—one student with Autism and one with Down Syndrome, Board Certified Educational Therapist Diana Black Kennedy will explore a framework to help think through whether you should take on a student with complex support needs, to find the support needed to ethically work outside your comfort zone, and to prioritize and address more multi-faceted, extensive needs.

Homework Help That Really Helps

In parent-friendly terms, Diana explores what homework help really helps and what may be hurting a child.

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Diana Kennedy is one of those speakers who leaves you with more energy than you came in with. She brings a real depth of knowledge, grounded both in the evidence and in decades of experience as a classroom teacher and specialist. I come away from her presentations with games and activities I can use with my students right away. Best of all, I leave feeling encouraged and inspired. Her presentations remind me why I love this work.

Anne-Marie B. MoreyM.A., BCET, Bay Tree Learning Solutions, Inc.

What would any of us have done without the wisdom and knowledge you have shared over the years?  You and your workshops have been my first line of recommendations to both novice and experienced educators seeking information about content (reading, writing, math, etc.) or how best to work with special populations (i.e., folks with dyslexia, dyscalculia, autism, dysgraphia, Asperger’s, etc.).

Ann GordonPh.D., BCET

Diana Kennedy is a truly gifted presenter and instructor.  She uses the perfect blend of humor and deeply competent knowledge and know-how to inspire, challenge, and effectively teach attendees so that they always come away feeling wiser and more competent themselves.  Her presentations are always extremely interesting and fun, while also being very practical, and attendees can feel secure in the knowledge that they will complete her webinar with both skills and tools to support them in their work.

Kerstin GoldsmithET/P

I had the pleasure of attending two Diana Kennedy presentations, one on reading and the other about math games. Diana researches completely! Her talks were filled with useful information, beautifully organized, and delivered with energizing enthusiasm. Speaking as chair of the AETSF Learning Community, she is often the first name we think of when we consider future presenters—but she is usually already booked!

Li MoonMA, BCET, Chair AETSF Learning Community
This was absolutely amazing — the scope of information which you covered, the depth, the research, and the variety of interventions, etc., which you presented!  Thank you so much!

Marcia
I attended your talk on math learning disabilities at the NCTM conference last week. I’m so grateful for the information you presented. What I learned in your session will definitely change my practice.

Zoie
Thank you so much for your presentation via web this morning! I got sooooo much out of it….you have an amazing wealth of knowledge. Your ability to organize the information and connect one thing to another is so helpful and effective.

Alison Appleby, M.A., ET/P

From structured literacy and writing to math anxiety and autism, she always provides actionable strategies you can use immediately. I highly recommend inviting Diana to speak and present to any group, institute, or association interested in education, neurodiversity, and learning differences. Diana exemplifies the absolute best of educational therapy.

Sharon Barkan, MA, ET/P
Thank you, it was a wonderful webinar and I am recommending it to all my Special Educational Needs teachers.

Judith C Adams, MSc PG Dip As
I just finished listening to your awesome workshop. It was fantastic…You have a wonderful knowledge base and you express yourself so very well.

Regina G. RichardsVice-President, SoCal Tri-Counties IDA
Thanks a ton for this amazing and informative free webinar.  Just wanted to share that my 6yr old loved your saber tooth example.

Moumita Si Pallachulla, M.A.M.A (OLIT)
This presentation was superb.  Interesting information well expressed.  Thanks.

Sandy Mosk
It was an engaging and fun presentation and discussion-and informative-with good take aways that parents can immediately start using. Leaving a presentation with concrete things TO DO (not just a discussion about what’s difficult and why) is key! It was great! Thank you very much Diana.

Elizabeth BradburnEvery Kind of Mind
Thanks so much for speaking today! You were very engaging and funny, which always helps keep people interested. The handouts were great to have, as people like something tangible, and the topic that you addressed today is really on point with many issues our parents are struggling with on a regular basis.

Dina LeitchFlexible Learning Opportunities
The Webinar… presentation was excellent! Her ideas, tips, and information were practical, fun, and motivational. I look forward to getting her handouts and to using her activities.

Webinar Participant
Great descriptions of difficulties students have and excellent activities to use. Diana had a great fund of knowledge and is able to explain it well.

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