<p>Karen Costa shares about An Educator’s Guide to ADHD on Episode 606 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.</p> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-20910" src="https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TIHE606-3-300x200.png" alt="Curiosity is just this sort of force of nature. So tap in to your students creativity, your students passions and interests as a way to support them in reaching and achieving those challenges that you also hold for them." width="543" height="361" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TIHE606-3.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TIHE606-3.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TIHE606-3.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TIHE606-3.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TIHE606-3.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TIHE606-3.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px" /></p> <p>Curiosity is just this sort of force of nature. So tap in to your students creativity, your students passions and interests as a way to support them in reaching and achieving those challenges that you also hold for them.<br /> -Karen Costa</p> <p>That&#8217;s a heavy thing for folks with ADHD to carry, that we are a burden on the other students in the classroom, that we are a burden on our teachers. And that is simply not true.<br /> -Karen Costa</p> <p>What we know now is that many times those are what are called stims in neurodivergent and ADHD and autistic communities. And those are actually a way that a lot of folks help themselves to stay present and regulated in their bodies so that they can direct their attention to the teacher or to the task at hand.<br /> -Karen Costa</p> <p>The best thing we can do to make the course real is as an instructor to be present in that online course.<br /> -Karen Costa</p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53916/educators-guide-adhd">An Educator&#8217;s Guide to ADHD: Designing and Teaching for Student Success, by Karen Costa</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9781642670851">99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos: A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes, by Karen Costa</a></li> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/577">Episode 577: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the Classroom with Jessamyn Neuhaus</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9780806195469">Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, by Jessamyn Neuhaus</a></li> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/578">Episode 578: Learning to Teach, Design, and Rest from Nature with Karen Costa</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lXo-QGiPBNoNB1xJ8w__7suYcUPRJiqRgCEsYtL4d3Q/edit?tab=t.0">Community of Inquiry Checklist, from Karen Costa</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.belmont.edu/">Belmont University</a></li> <li><a href="https://thecanarycode.com/">The Canary Code, by Ludmila Praslova</a></li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/SHUclX7Qn1s?si=wvHWyaQ6LDxTcv56">Blackbird &#8211; The Harvard Opportunes</a></li> <li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/associated-press-100-photos-of-2025-ap-photos-that-defined-the-year?ref=readtangle.com">AP 100 Photos of 2025 The Defined the Year</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature">Hard Core Literature</a></li> </ul> <p></div></p>