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UDL Tools | CAST

UDL Guidelines These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Goalbook Toolkit UDL-Aligned Strategies

UDL-Aligned Strategies UDL-aligned strategies are instructional methods and tools used by teachers to ensure that ALL students have an equal opportunity to learn. All of our strategies are aligned with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines. These guidelines help you to select strategies that remove barriers in instruction so that all students can achieve their learning goals.

TIES Lessons

TIES Lessons for All: The 5-15-45 Tool This tool will help you go from borrowed, bought, or mandated lesson to a more inclusive lesson for all. Many teachers plan their instruction by using existing lesson plans. Starting with a lesson that comes from a curriculum package, online site, or colleague may save time, but also requires adjustment to meet your needs as a teacher and the needs of your students, especially those with significant cognitive disabilities.

UDL Tools | Kathleen McClaskey

Learner Profiles The information in the Learner Profile™ (LP) helps each learner tell their story and how they learn with their teacher. This is the foundation from which conversations, relationships and partnerships in learning are built.
Personal Learning Backpack The PLB includes the tools, apps and resources that can be used to support learning plus the learning strategies and skills that he or she can develop to become an independent expert learner. This process is all about the conversations that you have with your learners.

Source: Understood.org

Books

Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success by Andratesha Fritzgerald; Samaria Rice (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2020-08-26
Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners: The UDL Approach by Loui Lord Nelson; Patti Kelly Ralabate
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Equity by Design: Delivering on the Power and Promise of UDL by Mirko Chardin; Katie R. Novak
Publication Date: 2020-08-20
Universal Design for Learning by Anne Meyer; David Rose; David Gordon
ISBN: 0989867404
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
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Unlearning: Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with UDL by Allison Posey; Katie Novak
Publication Date: 2020-02-06
What Really Works with Universal Design for Learning by Wendy Murawski (Editor); Kathy Lynn Scott (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019-04-10
Your UDL Journey by Patti Kelly Ralabate; Elizabeth Berquist
Publication Date: 2020-03-11

Articles

Educational Leadership | Personalization and UDL: A Perfect Match
NGLC | Universal Design for Learning: Because One Size Fits None The UDL Guidelines offer a valuable framework for educators who have embraced next generation learning to improve teaching and learning for all people by designing at the margins.
Its Learning | How an LMS Should Support UDL A learning management system (LMS) can help districts implement UDL principles efficiently by putting their curriculum, instruction management, resources and communication tools all on one platform. This gives students direct access to the content they choose to consume and an efficient means of communication with teachers and peers, therefore promoting self-led learning and creating active and engaged learners.
The Ahead Journal | Making do with what we have: using the built-in functions of a Learning Management System to implement UDL
Getting Smart | Why Learner-Centered Education is the Key to Meaningful School Improvement

Journal Articles from ERIC (Private to CCPCS Staff)

Enhancing Student Learning in the Online Instructional Environment Through the Use of Universal Design for Learning
Boothe, Kathleen A.; Lohmann, Marla J.; Owiny, Ruby
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, v22 n1 Article 1 2020
Opportunity in Crisis: The Role of Universal Design for Learning in Educational Redesign
Basham, James D.; Blackorby, Jose; Marino, Matthew T.
Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, v18 n1 p71-91 2020
Leveraging Emerging Technology to Design an Inclusive Future with Universal Design for Learning
McMahon, Don Douglas; Walker, Zachary
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, v9 n3 p75-93 2019
Using a Universal Design for Learning Framework to Provide Multiple Means of Representation in the Early Childhood Classroom
Gauvreau, Ariane N.; Lohmann, Marla J.; Hovey, Katrina A.
Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, v8 n1 Jul 2019
Efficient Strategies for Integrating Universal Design for Learning in the Online Classroom
Houston, Leonia
Journal of Educators Online, v15 n3 Dec 2018
Inclusive Design for Online and Blended Courses: Connect ing Web Cont ent Accessibilit y Guidelines and Universal Design for Learning
Gronseth, Susie
Educational Renaissance, v7 p14-22 2018
Preparing Teachers to Use Universal Design for Learning to Support Diverse Learners
Evmenova, Anya
Journal of Online Learning Research, v4 n2 p147-171 2018
The Effect of Universal Design for Learning Application on E-Learning Acceptance
Al-Azawei, A., P. Parslow, and K. Lundqvist.
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol. 18, no. 6, Sept. 2017
Universal Design for Learning and School Libraries: A Logical Partnership
Robinson, David E.
Knowledge Quest, v46 n1 p56-61 Sep-Oct 2017

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