The toolkit you needed last September.

SENDCo work is a job done by people who never have enough time. Most are also class teachers, behaviour leads, or assistant heads — the SENDCo role is bolted on top. The annual cycle is unforgiving: EHC plan reviews, parent meetings, transition reviews, statutory paperwork, ad-hoc crisis support, observations, and CPD for staff who never quite get round to it.

LessonKind can't add hours to your week. What it can do is replace the part where you're rebuilding pupil passport templates from scratch every September, drafting parent meeting agendas in your head before walking in, and writing out the same "ADHD strategies for the classroom" handout for the third time this term.

What's in the SEND toolkit

The library covers five practical areas of SENDCo work.

• Pupil-level documentation — pupil passport template, transition handover form, parent meeting prep template
• Classroom adjustments — autism-friendly classroom checklist, dyslexia-friendly classroom guide, calm corner setup, classroom adjustments checklist
• Strategy reference for class teachers — quick reference (one-pager), 50 strategies handout for staff meetings, ADHD strategies pack, sensory strategies toolkit
• Specific need areas — autism, ADHD, dyslexia, sensory needs, emotional regulation, anxiety, meltdown-vs-tantrum (for staff training), attention and focus
• Reading & intervention — SEND reading intervention progression, reading-friendly classroom adjustments

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Free resources for SENDCos

Eight resources are completely free — no signup required. They're the ones every primary needs accessible to every class teacher:

• SEND Quick Reference for Mainstream Teachers — autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia on one card. The single resource we'd pin in every staffroom.
• Classroom Adjustments Checklist — a walk-through of what every primary classroom should have, regardless of which children are in it
• Autism-Friendly Classroom Checklist — for the room audit before a new EHCP child arrives
• Sensory Strategies Toolkit — for the children whose dysregulation is sensory rather than behavioural
• ADHD Strategies for the Classroom — what works, with the specific phrasing teachers should use
• Emotional Regulation Toolkit — co-regulation scripts, zones-style language, calm-down sequences
• Dyslexia-Friendly Classroom — the formatting, font, and presentation rules that help ALL children, not just identified dyslexics
• Parent Meeting Prep Template — for the meeting you have to walk into in 20 minutes

The deeper resources — pupil passports, the 50-strategies staff handout, transition handover forms, intervention progression guides — are member-only. They're the kind of templates that take a SENDCo from "rebuilding from scratch" to "running on shared infrastructure."

Why a SENDCo membership is worth it

If you're a SENDCo, three things are usually true:

1. You're doing the role on a fraction of a day per week, despite the workload being a full job
2. Your class teachers come to you with the same questions every term, and you don't have time to re-train each new staff cohort
3. Most of the resources you find online are either too generic ("celebrate every child!") or too specialised (research papers, EHC plan templates that don't fit your LA's format)

A $4.99/month membership pays for itself in the first staff meeting where you hand out the 50-strategies sheet instead of writing it up on the whiteboard yourself. Plus full access to the rest of the catalog: 1028 resources across 28 subjects, useful for the children on your caseload — particularly EAL learners, trauma-informed practice resources, and EYFS materials for early years SEND.

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For school leaders

If you're a head or deputy responsible for SEND provision, these resources are usable on three levels:

• Supporting your SENDCo — release them from doing the operational drafting that anyone could do, so they can do the SEND-specific work that only they can
• Documenting your provision — the classroom adjustment checklists, autism-friendly audits, and dyslexia-friendly room standards form a paper trail useful for OFSTED, inspection visits, and parent complaint situations
• Improving consistency — when every class teacher is working from the same one-page reference and the same adjustment checklist, the variation between rooms narrows. Children with SEND notice this most

The articles

Three long-form pieces speak directly to SEND work — all free to read:

• How SENDCos Actually Run Their Cases — what the role looks like from the inside, and the rhythms that separate burnout from sustainability. The article we wish we'd had when we first took the role.
• Understanding the Autism Spectrum in Primary — for staff meetings where the basics need establishing before the strategies will land
• ADHD Isn't a Lack of Attention — the executive function reframe that makes the strategies make sense

Many of the broader articles also speak to inclusion work — particularly When a Child's Behaviour Is Communication, What Trauma-Informed Teaching Actually Means, and The Kids You Find Hardest.

For parents reading this

If you're a parent of a child with SEND, the articles above are useful background. The autism and ADHD pieces in particular are the ones we'd hand a parent who's just received a diagnosis and doesn't know where to start.

If you're worried your child might have unmet needs that the school hasn't yet identified, the SEND quick reference (free) gives you a sense of what mainstream teachers should be doing — useful context for a conversation with the SENDCo or class teacher.

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