How can we move beyond simply supporting students with disabilities and instead empower them as partners in shaping their own learning environments?

Join the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) for an inside look at the Youth Action Project, a collaborative initiative dedicated to closing the gap in meaningful participation for disabled and neurodivergent youth. This webinar features leaders from three pilot sites—Social Optics, Transition Academy, and LiberatED—who will share how they utilized a deeply participatory approach to foster agency and support community-driven change.

In this session, our guests will share:

• Success Stories: Highlights from three distinct regions across the U.S. where youth led the way in problem-solving and decision-making.
• Actionable Lessons: Real-world findings on what it takes to authentically center student voices in schools and youth development programs.
• A Practical Suite of Resources: An introduction to new, accessible tools grounded in lived experience that you can implement or scale at your own site immediately.

Whether you are an educator, school leader, or youth worker, this conversation will provide you with the strategies needed to ensure every learner has a seat at the table in the processes that affect their lives most.