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The culture you create in your school, from the classroom to the staff room, is vital in empowering Dyslexic Thinking – both in the children you teach and in the teachers who teach them.

Empowering Dyslexic Thinking in your school ecosystem

Step 1: Empower Dyslexic Thinking in your learners

If this is the first module you’ve taken from Made By Dyslexia to understand Dyslexic Thinking, dive deeper with other modules in the Dyslexia Training learning path on Microsoft Learn.

We’re asking teachers and schools around the world to Take a Day for Dyslexia and complete all Made By Dyslexia’s free training. Once all the teachers in your school have trained, you can earn and proudly display Made By Dyslexia’s Learn Dyslexia badge to show that your school is empowering Dyslexic Thinking.

Screenshot of Made By Dyslexia's Learn Dyslexia badge.

Step 2: Empower Dyslexic Thinking in your staff

As expert communicators who are curious and passionate about the topics they teach, it’s no surprise that many people with dyslexia become brilliant teachers. But does your school’s culture enable them to do their best work? And does everyone around them understand and value their Dyslexic Thinking skills?

Take Made By Dyslexia’s free training on LinkedIn. In just 60 minutes you learn how to empower the Dyslexic Thinking skills that create a workplace or school where teachers with dyslexia thrive. And when everyone has trained, your school earns the Employ Dyslexia badge, which shows your school empowers Dyslexic Thinking among its workforce.

Screenshot of Made By Dyslexia's Employ Dyslexia badge.

Five benefits to displaying Made By Dyslexia badges:

  • Signals to existing and potential parents that you're empowering Dyslexic Thinkers.
  • Signals to teachers and potential new hires that you're empowering Dyslexic Thinkers.
  • Signals to your school student community that you value and empower Dyslexic Thinkers.
  • Shows you’re a future focused school, empowering students for the new world of work.
  • Shows you’re committed to diversity, equality and inclusion for students and workforce.

Reflection questions

  • Which Made By Dyslexia modules have you completed, and which could you do next?
  • Are you dyslexic? Or are any of your colleagues dyslexic?
  • Can you recognize your/their Dyslexic Thinking skills?
  • Does your school’s workplace culture allow you/them to do their best work?