Day 1:
Goals for the workshop:
  • Deepen UDL understanding
  • Build strategies for presenting UDL
  • Explore tips for implementing ‘vision of UDL’
  • Review implementation examples

9:00-9:45 / Welcome!
  • Paper materials: Presenters Guide, Power Pointpdf, graphic organizer
  • Digital materials: Tweet: #UDL, Presenters Guide (site: username: j_smith, password: cast)
  • Getting to know you and goals
  • Challenges of UDL

9:45-10:20 / Topic: Three key concepts to any UDL presentation
Goal: To deepen understanding UDL and UDL Guidelines and to begin to plan strategies to present UDL
Exercises:
  • Goals: clear, means (‘how’)
  • Variability: predictable!
  • Context (design of environment): UDL Guidelines, 3 Principles

10:20-10:30 / Break
10:30-11:30 / Guest speaker, David Rose
11:30-11:45 / Reflection
11:45-1:00 / LUNCH
1:00-1:45 / Topic: Tips and tricks to model UDLas you share UDL
Goal:Build strategies for presenting UDL background to colleagues, ‘vision of UDL’
Exercises:
  • Define the goal, get to know your audience and context
  • Around the World: Prepare your materials (design the context) to support variability:
  • Options for Representation
  • Options for Action & Expression
  • Options for Engagement

1:45-2:30 / Break out sessions
  • Work time: explore resources, collaborate, and build your work (try Marshmallow, watch Variability Matters or other videos)
  • Building community: ideas on building UDL communities

2:30-3:00 / Share your ideas and questions
Reflection, Evaluation
Coming tomorrow
  • Explore tips for implementing ‘vision of UDL’: building teams around UDL and to support lesson development
  • Review examples of organizations that have implemented UDL

Day 2:
Goals for the workshop:
  • Deepen UDL understanding
  • Build strategies for presenting UDL
  • Explore tips for implementing ‘vision of UDL’
  • Review implementation examples

9:00-9:30 / Welcome back!
  • Novice  Expert shift
  • Review from Day 1, your UDL metaphor

9:30-10:15 / Topic: UDL Implementation
Goal: To share core components for UDL implementation and examples
Exercises:
  • UDL Implementation: what does UDL ‘look’ like? Discuss through Universal Design (UD)
  • Core UDL implementation features
  • Small team of interested people (PLC) and a UDL guide
  • Top down and bottom up work and support
  • Customized tools inform decisions and work (what will you observe/measure?)
  • Options for work: presentations, online, coaching, book study, lesson planning…

10:15-10:25 / Break
10:25-11:00 / Topic: Common UDL Myths and Misconceptions
Goal: Discuss some common UDL myths and misconceptions and share strategies to address these.
Exercise:
  • Folder pass and discussion

11:00-11:45 / Break out sessions
  • Analyze a lesson
  • Build your UDL toolkit by exploring and sharing more CAST tools

11:45-12:45 / LUNCH
1:00-2:15(break included) / Topic: UDL Implementation
Goal: To learn about the unique UDL implementation process
Exercise: Guest speaker, Rachel Currie-Rubin
2:15-3:00 / Topic: Final reflection
Goal: To discuss next steps and reflect upon the goals.
Exercises:
  • Tips from UDL Presenters
  • Share your process

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