April 8, 2020
The Reciprocal Classroom During COVID-19 During this episode of UDL in 15 Minutes, Dan Marsh not only shares what he’s learned from moving his brick and mortar class online in comparison to the online courses he designs for a purely online school, he shares important feedback he provided to a learner, “Thanks for asking the […]
April 1, 2020
Using What We Know Robin, just like millions of other educators, is moving her way through this new teaching experience. As a high school English teacher, though, she’s very used to taking attendance, grading papers, and giving assessments. During this episode of UDL in 15 Minutes, Robin shares how this has shifted. But something else […]
March 11, 2020
Video Sharing, Principal Leadership, and UDL During this episode of UDL in 15 Minutes, Principal Sara Soria shares how influential art has been in her life and how it has become a two-pronged tool for her work. First, she models using art to connect with others (be sure to click on the Crystal Blue Persuasion […]
March 2, 2020
Thinking about Gifted Learners through the UDL Framework In the first bit of time what I started to learn about UDL was that it fosters an active approach to learning where I think so much of traditional ways of education, including grading and assessment are passive, where students can tend to get in the habit […]
February 12, 2020
Do you hear voices? Different teachers come to UDL via different paths, but every teacher wants students to be more engaged in learning. The principle of engagement shows us the various ways we can raise engagement, but it depends on the structures around us. For example, Christina was able to add in flexibility to her […]
January 29, 2020
Listening with the intent to change So, I started with surveying the students about what they felt they would want. Do they learn best if they have a video? Do they learn best if they have audio support? Do they want audio support on vocabulary words that are unknown? And do they prefer reading on […]January 15, 2020
We have to teach executive function skills, even to high school students After asking Amanda, a high school English Language Arts (ELA) teacher, to share why she focuses on executive functions, she said this: “…, I found that there’s this myth that high schoolers don’t need support in that area anymore because they’re older, but […]
December 18, 2019
Expert Learning in the Digital Age This week’s episode with Melanie Acevedo focuses on the use of UDL outside of the core content. Melanie is one of four digital literacy teachers in her school district of about 4,000 students. Having identified that number of digital literacy teachers speaks to the Melrose Public School’s commitment to […]December 4, 2019
Grade/subject Guest and Topic in podcast Episode number Kindergarten Laura Taylor – The influence UDL has even after 26 years of teaching 4 Kindergarten Karlene Warns – Executive functioning 17 2nd grade Jessie Sherman – Making arts integration even more accessible 3 3rd grade Jana Nicol – Designing the learning environment 10 3rd and 4th […]November 20, 2019
The Driver of UDL is Variability This episode of UDL in 15 Minutes offers two straight-forward examples of how teachers used the UDL framework to lower barriers for their learners, but within those examples lie the crux of UDL: variability. In this video with David Rose (one of the founders of CAST and is seen […]