UDL in 15 Minutes

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.

30: Celebrating 1 year!

This week’s episode provides an updated easy-to-read table organizing all of the UDL in 15 Minute episodes to date.

29: A primary school in Wainuiomata, New Zealand is making small changes that lead to big outcomes

Diana-Grace Morris, Bonni Ramage, and Catherine Wong are all educators from Wainuiomata, New Zealand who share stories of how teachers at Konini Primary School are embracing UDL to investigate how they can lower barriers for learners and then expanding those ideas to encompass even more learners.

28: Being a positive influence: When you know about UDL and others don’t

Not every educator works on a staff or even with a team who is focused on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Shannon’s school is very committed to the academic and social-emotional growth of their students. This helps establish an environment where Shannon’s ideas, which are driven by UDL, to flourish. She and her co-teacher focus on knowing the goal and lowering every barrier possible for their 5^th graders.

27: How the UDL lens changed a teacher training program

Beth Fornauf and her colleagues at the University of New Hampshire not only teach their graduate students about the UDL framework and ask them to use it to design their rural K-12 learning environments and lessons, they use the framework to improve their Teacher Residency for Rural Education Program through a barrier analysis.

26: Mentorship, friendship, and UDL: A beautiful trio

Tracy Pendred and Kimberly Spears of City Neighbors Charter School, a public school in Baltimore, MD, share how their formal mentor/mentee relationship grew into a friendship and how that relationship supports their implementation of UDL.

25: Supporting agency in learning: Letting 3rd and 4th graders take more control

Kate Stanley, a multi-age 3^rd and 4^th grade teacher from Madison, New Hampshire has been in the classroom for 21 years and firmly believes all learners can and should have more agency in their learning and UDL helps her provide more of it. She shares how she gets her learners started at the beginning of the year as well as the initial steps she took.