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UDL in 15 Minutes with Nicole Glynn and Nicole Peters

Being a UDL loner: How to persevere We know that the best way to support the persistence of all educators as they learn about and learn to apply UDL is to provide system-wide support. For example, Nicole Glynn and Nicole Peters share how Kansas Infinitec is working to establish state-wide change through their book studies […]

UDL in 15 Minutes with Cindy Malone

PLCs and UDL: Asking the right questions Rick DuFour popularized four succinct questions many school-based professional learning communities (PLC) use. They are: What do we want all students to know and be able to do? How will we know if they learn it? How will we respond when some students do not learn? How will […]

UDL in 15 Minutes with Brandon Bean

The teeter-totter or empowerment What does it mean to empower our learners? When we empower our learners, we are giving them opportunities to discover themselves as learners and to see how their input has a direct impact on their outcomes. The difficult part is knowing how deeply our actions can affect our learners. Every once […]

UDL in 15 Minutes with Mary Waldron and Michaela Clancy

Three Steps to Implementing UDL During this episode of UDL in 15 Minutes with Mary Waldron and Michaela Clancy, Michaela shares how they began moving forward with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). “As we started this, year two of this, we moved into the COVID response, but we didn’t want our educators to feel like […]

UDL in 15 Minutes with Cassie Stevens and Sara Lucero

The Steps to Inclusion: How UDL Helps The inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education environment has been shown to benefit both learners with disabilities (Cole, Murphy, Frisby, Grossi & Bolte, 2021), and students without disabilities (Katz & Mirenda, 2002). Unfortunately, it is still not the experience of many learners with disabilities. The […]

UDL in 15 Minutes with Cassie Stevens and Sara Lucero

Every learner is an expert learner Universal Design for Learning (UDL) has us look at the current environment, identify the barriers that exist in that environment, and remove those barriers so learning can take place. What if the environment is an entire school and what if the changes you are making not only affect your […]

UDL in 15 Minutes podcast – The UDL Gears

The UDL Gears – My why In this episode of UDL in 15 Minutes, Dakota Hudelson (my guest from Episode 8) helped me introduce The UDL Gears. It’s a project I’ve been working on for a long time and it’s something I’m passionate about. Here’s why. To date (May 2023), there is no firm definition […]

UDL in 15 Minutes podcast with Kelley Correio and Laurie Sarver

Removing barriers – Part 1 A solid concept that drives Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is the removal of barriers. Kelley Correio and Laurie Sarver touch on that topic in this episode of UDL in 15 Minutes. In my opinion (since there isn’t any specific research on this concept, it is an opinion) that mindset […]

UDL in 15 Minutes with Jenny Parker

The rewards of video recording While the theme of this podcast is how one teacher got started with UDL, Jenny and I moved forward from there and talked about tools she believes help teachers move forward with their practice. Within that conversation, we talked about video recording. Whether the idea intrigues or repulses you, there […]

UDL in 15 Minutes with Cassie Stevens and Lori Scott

Self-Efficacy This podcast with Cassie Stevens and Lori Scott kicks off a series of podcasts that focus on a group from Educational Service Districts across the state of Washington and their journey to shift statewide inclusion practices through targeted leadership support, professional development, and being accessible to all educators. This series will share the UDL-aligned […]