An Educator’s Guide to ADHD, with Karen Costa

Today on episode 606 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, an Educators Guide to ADHD, designing and teaching for student success with author Karen Costa. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. I'm Bonnie Stahoviak and this is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to improve our productivity approaches so we can have more peace in our lives and be even.

more present for our students. Today I'm joined once again by educator, author, and faculty development facilitator Karen Costa for a conversation that invites us to rethink what we believe about ADHD and about attention itself. Karen and I explore excerpts from her new book on ADHD Beginning with a metaphor that threads throughout the work. We examine some of the most persistent misconceptions about ADHD, including the deficit-based narratives that educators may unintentionally reinforce, as well as the equally unhelpful framing of ADHD as a superpower.

Karen helps us navigate a more humanizing middle path, one that recognizes both the strengths and the struggles of ADHD learners while honoring their creativity, complexity, and capacity. Karen is a faculty development facilitator with 100 faculty, an adjunct professor, and the author of 99 tips for creating simple, and sustainable educational videos. Her work centers on creating more inclusive, compassionate, and neurologically expansive learning environments, and I am so excited to share this conversation with you.

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