Join Us for A UDL Book Study

Please join us to learn and implement strategies from the book unlearning Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with UDL by Allison Posey and Katie Novak

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) suggests exciting ways to design and deliver engaging, rigorous learning experiences-as a growing international movement of UDL practitioners can attest. However, implementing UDL also requires us to unlearn many beliefs, assumptions, and teaching practices that no longer work. Why is changing what we do so hard? Authors Allison Posey and Katie Novak posit that, to change how we think about teaching, how to manage classrooms, and how to develop curriculum, we must unlearn. In a profession that spends so much time thinking about learning, the process of unlearning is what needs to happen before real change can happen.

This book study is a beginning look into the beliefs and practices of Universal Design for Learning and how it can reinvent your classroom for your students and you.

Focus in April 

Chapter 5 Relight the Pilot Light to Unleash Expert Learners - As educators, we are challenged to teach and model for our students how to become experts at doing what they need to achieve their best learning: be self-directed, motivated, and goal-driven in their learning. 

Who Should Attend?  

General and special educators, professionals who support them, including administrators, paraprofessionals, and service providers. 

Participants will: 

• Begin the process of unlearning using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) 

• Understand and implement the “Unlearning Cycle” including, understanding variability, knowing your goals, transforming practices, and prioritizing engagement.