UDL Academy Session 7 Cohort 2 May 3, 2013

Goals for today To finalize work on your team deliverables for the UDL Academy: – 3-4 UDL lessons in UDL Exchange – Resource mapping

UDL Connect Resources from workshop Power Point Videos, links Add your own discussions!!

On the road again

You have been learning about and applying UDL in your districts for several months. Goal: To discover your team’s cohesive thoughts about UDL implementation Materials: Post-it notes, pen/pencil

On the road again Exercise: 1.Four questions related to UDL will be asked on four separate slides. 2.Independently write your answer on post-it notes using a single word or phrase for each Post-it note. The time to answer each question will be 30 seconds. 3.After all four questions have been answered, bring all of your team’s Post-it notes together in no specific order. 4.Read through the Post-it notes and group them according to similar themes/ideas. 5.Write a short phrase or sentence that describes each theme/idea.

Warm up #1 In what ways do you apply UDL as a framework for professional learning?

Warm up #2 In what ways do you apply UDL as a framework for enhancing lesson design for all students?

Warm up #3 In what ways do you apply UDL as a district/systems change framework?

Warm up #4 In what ways do you apply UDL as framework for thinking about your school climate

What are the themes or ideas that stand out?

Breakout Overview for Today: Session 1: UDL Exchange Session 2: UDL Lesson Q&A, Resource Mapping Q&A Session 3: Ideas for UDL PD These are not ‘lectures’ but discussion time

Work time! Session 1 until 10:30am Options: UDL Exchange (breakout room) Work time Partner with other districts/CAST

Break, order lunch options

Work time! Session 2 until 11:30am Options: UDL Lessons (breakout room) Resource mapping (this room) Work time Partner with other districts/CAST

Share with full group

Lunch, return by 1:15pm

Do you feel like this?

Work time! Session 3 until 2:30pm Options: UDL-PD discussion (break out room) Work time Partner with other districts/CAST

Working break, 2:15-2:30

Share with group

Reflection What do you know now about UDL that you did not know before? – I used to think… Now I think… – I did not know that UDL… but now I know…

Next session: – Work & share (lessons, resource maps) – Celebrate, reflect, next steps PDP, evaluations