UDL in 15 Minutes

24: All of the Blogs in One Place: An Easy-to-Read Table

This episode brings together all past episode's blog posts into table. You can choose the blogs you'd like to read based on the linked descriptions provided.

23: Choice leading to greater control: Carrie describes this win-win for her high school seniors.

Carrie Preston shares a unit she designed for her 12^th grade seniors that kept them engaged at the end of the year and how amazed she was with the products they produced, all because she designed the unit using the UDL framework… and got out of their way.

22: UDL, co-teaching, and mindset: Karen and Jordan share their combination for success

Karen Keener and Jordan Landis co-teach 8th grade language arts classes together at Crestview Middle School in Ohio. Here, they share how their respect for one another, their use of the UDL framework, their expectations for their students, and their mindset around the ownership of all learners have set them up to produce engaging lessons where all learners gain the skills of expert learners.

21: Choice AND fidelity? Small shifts lead to big outcomes for these 7th graders

Special educator Rebecca Chappell shares how she designed choice into the AIMSweb assessment through UDL.  By providing her learners choice, they are more engaged with their writing and by clarifying the goal, they are finding their own motivation.

20: A visual organizer for your July listening

It's July which means summer holiday in most of North America. And even though UDL in 15 Minutes is taking a production break, I've made a table of past episodes to make it easy for listeners to find the episode they want to hear for their first time or second, third, or fourth. Happy listening!

19: An inclusive 7th grade ELA classroom produces expert learners. Rebecca shares how.

Special educator Rebecca Chappell shares how she and her English Language Arts colleague used Universal Design for Learning to design how they would integrate Quizlet and other methods and materials to ensure all of their learners improved their understanding and application of some challenging vocabulary terms.

18: Justin ensures his pre-service teachers learn about UDL, examine using UDL, and experience UDL as learners.

Hear how Justin Freedman, an assistant professor at Rowan University, provides his pre-service teachers with a 365-degree relationship with UDL. Not only do they learn about it and observe other lessons and learning environments implementing UDL, they experience a learning environment designed by Justin using UDL. Justin also shares how and why he become a professor and his research accommodations at the college level.

17: After 27 years, a focus on self-regulation within UDL has rocked her teaching!

Karlene Warns, a 27-year teaching veteran, shares how she’s helped her kindergartners gain the self-regulation skills necessary to support their executive functioning capabilities. During the podcast, we address that push and pull felt by so many teachers – when to spend time on skills that feel more like behavior and when to dive into academics. Karlene shares what’s been successful for her.

16: Camille shares why and how fourth grade teachers changed how they assess their ELA learners.

This special edition of UDL in 15 Minutes was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the UDL-IRN Summit on March 28, 2019. Camille is a Learning Coach at Sunflower Elementary School in Lawrence, Kansas and during this episode, she shares how she and the fourth grade teachers devised a system to help their learners show what they know in English Language Arts through their use of the UDL principle of Action and Expression. Students gained new levels of ownership, participation, and expression by brainstorming, planning, designing, and creating their creations to demonstrate their knowledge of main idea and detail.

15: Using her own teaching experiences, Melissa designs UDL PD for her district.

Melissa discovered UDL as a 7^th grade English teacher but recently transitioned to become a district resource teacher who helps other teachers learn about and implement UDL. Hear how she started weaving UDL into her classroom using small steps and how she uses that same model as she brings UDL to others. She also shares a UDL tool she redesigned to fit the needs of her adult learners.