UDL in 15 Minutes

40: Megan Gross and Lisa Yamasaki, special educators from California, share resources and tips for educating students with disabilities during this time of stay-at-home.

Megan and Lisa talk about some of the resources and tips they are providing to parents and general educators as everyone moves to educating all student at home.

39: He’s an experienced online educator who also teaches face-to-face. Here’s how Dan is negotiating his shift from brick and mortar to online through the use of UDL.

High school teacher Dan Marsh has been teaching in a brick and mortar setting for 16 years, but he’s also taught online for 10 years. During this episode, he shares his ideas about shifting his brick and mortar lessons online and how he’s supporting his students during that shift.

38: When instruction becomes enrichment: How Robin will use UDL to guide her online design

Robin, who is newer to UDL, shares her thoughts on how she’s going to weave UDL into her online enrichment lessons to enhance engagement and access during this time of social distancing.

37: High school English teacher Kelley Culp shares how she got started using UDL to design her online learning environment

Benefit from Kelley’s knowledge about UDL and her experience of planning an online environment using the framework. She recommends starting small and gives some specific examples of where she got started.

36: This alternative high school principal shares how she connects artistic expression as a learning tool and UDL

Principal Sara Soria shares her rich professional and personal journey to emphasize the importance of using art as a means of learning and expression and how she sees the arts as a tool to implement UDL.

35: When grading mirrors growth mindset: High School teacher Ian Wilkins tells his story.

When Ian Wilkins began to adopt Universal Design for Learning into his learning environment, he began to investigate how grades were moving his students away from being expert learners. Hear how this high school English Language Arts teacher redesigned his syllabus, created a rubric, and now guides his students toward a stronger growth mindset.

34: Applying UDL to a new science curriculum: Christina, is seeing wonderful results.

^7th grade science teacher Christina Khatri, from Ocean View Junior High School in Oxnard, CA, shares how her students have blossomed into motivated and persistent learners through her use of UDL for planning and teaching.

33: Laura's intermediate school students share their learning preferences and she listens

Laura Christie, an English Language Arts teacher from Fishers, Indiana shares how the voices of her students, including those who are high ability, students with IEPs, and students with 504's, helped her see how all students can benefit from options. And many times, it’s the same options.

32: High school students need to be taught executive function skills, too

High school teacher Amanda Hughes emphasizes the need to teach executive function skills to high school students and shares how she weaves the UDL guideline of Executive Function into her classroom every day.

31: Using UDL to teach digital literacy and to create personalized learning

Melanie Acevedo shares how she helps teachers implement UDL via her role as a digital literacy teacher and a personalized learning coach.