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The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.

Coming soon! UDL Guidelines 3.0

The UDL Guidelines are a living, dynamic tool that is continuously developed based on new research and feedback from practitioners. In 2020, CAST launched our most recent effort to update the UDL Guidelines, with a specific focus on equity. There has been a strong call from the field-both practitioners and researchers alike-to more fully develop the Guidelines to address critical barriers rooted in biases and systems of oppression. The current update aims to respond to this call and to work toward fulfilling the promise of the Guidelines as a tool to guide the design of learning environments that more fully honor and value every learner.

Since our launch in 2020, we have been committed to a community-driven, inclusive, and transparent updating process. As part of this effort, we are:

Collaborating with an Advisory Board, a UDL Guidelines Collaborative, and a Young Adult Advisory Board to guide our work

Conducting focus groups with a diversity of participants to learn from their perspectives, lived experiences, and feedback

Reviewing the research on the UDL Guidelines research pages to understand the balance of different research fields, methodological approaches, epistemological approaches, and author positionalities

Conducting literature reviews of equity-oriented research that connect to and extend the Guidelines, such as disability studies and critical pedagogy studies

We are excited to share this next iteration of the UDL Guidelines in 2024. If you are interested in receiving our UDL Guidelines 3.0 newsletter to stay updated on our progress and to share your ideas and perspectives, please complete this brief form.

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4. UDL Now! A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today's Classrooms

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Katie Novak

Date

2016

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About the Book

In this revised and expanded edition of the bestseller UDL Now! Katie Novak provides practical insights and savvy strategies for helping all learners meet high standards using the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Novak shows how to use the UDL Guidelines to plan lessons, choose materials, assess learning, and improve instructional practice. Novak discusses key concepts such as scaffolding, vocabulary-building, and using student feedback to inform instruction. She also provides tips on recruiting students as partners in the teaching process and engaging them in how they learn. UDL Now! is a fun and effective Monday-morning playbook for great teaching.

David Rose, Co-Founder of CAST and a principal architect of the UDL framework and guidelines, writes in his Foreword: "Katie Novak's well-articulated know-how about how to put UDL into practice has helped many thousands of educators. However, rather than rest on that success, Katie has done what expert learners and expert teachers do: She has reflected on her own performance and asked, "What can I do better? How can I make my point clearer? What have I learned from those many practitioners I have met and worked with in the past couple of years?' Throughout this book, you'll find the answers to those and other questions. The result is a bigger and better book."

UDL Now! Revised & Expanded Edition is available in paperback ($34.99, 238 pages, ISBN: 9781930583665) and EPUB ($34.99, ISBN: 9781930583672) format.
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About the Author

Katie Novak, EdD, is an internationally renowned education consultant, author, graduate instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a former Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts. Katie has more than 19 years of experience in teaching and administration, an earned doctorate in curriculum and teaching, and ten published books, including the best-selling education book, UDL Now!.

You can find her online at katienovakudl.com and on Twitter at @KatieNovakUDL.

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Table of Contents

Foreword, by David H. Rose

Introduction

Chapter 1: UDL and Reality TV Collide

Chapter 2: The UDL Guidelines for Educators
A Planning Tool You Can't Live Without

Chapter 3: Shining a Light on Engagement

Chapter 4: Recruiting and Engaging Students as UDL Partners

Chapter 5: Next-Generation Skills in Today's Classrooms

Chapter 6: Two Types of Learning Standards and UDL Implementation

Chapter 7: Choice Assignments
Expressing Knowledge in Endless Ways

Chapter 8: Scaffolding
Setting the Bar High and Raising Students to It

Chapter 9: The Best Ways to Teach Vocabulary

Chapter 10: Using Student Feedback to Inform Instruction

Chapter 11: Assessments the UDL Way
(Yes, Standardized Assessments, Too!)

Chapter 12: Technology Helps!

A: UDL Resources

B: Professional Learning Community Resources

C: PLC Assignment Rubrics

References

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Index

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4. Universally Designed Leadership: Applying UDL to Systems and Schools

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Katie Novak & Kristan Rodriguez

Date

2016

About the Book

The new Every Student Succeeds Act governing K-12 education in the United States defines and endorses Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to help achieve greater opportunity and academic achievement for all learners, including those with disabilities, English learners, and "gifted and talented" students.

In this book, veteran school leaders Novak and Rodriguez provide school leaders and educators with a guidebook for putting the UDL framework into practice. They show how to guide district and school staff in discussions around student data and use the UDL guidelines to shape curriculum decisions. Universally Designed Leadership is a must-read for any education leader who wants to create more equitable, inclusive, and effective learning environments.

Universally Designed Leadership by Katie Novak and Kristan Rodriguez is available in paperback ($34.99, 136 pages, ISBN: 9781930583627) and EPUB ($34.99, ISBN: 9781930583634) format.
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Praise for the Book

Universally Designed Leadership is the practitioners' guide to successful strategic implementation of Universal Design for Learning. This timely and relevant work provides a road map for education leaders to engage school communities in defining the why, what and how of learning. A must read for emerging and veteran school leaders alike.

Dr. Thomas Scott, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents

Universally Designed Leadership is a much-needed addition to the field. Novak and Rodriguez present the fundamentals of exploring, preparing, and integrating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into schools and districts. They focus on the practical steps to shifting cultures in schools and districts to embrace UDL, including creating a shared vision to embrace UDL, conducting needs assessments to guide the work, and developing logic models to guide this pursuit. Written in a conversational, straightforward style, Universally Designed Leadership will surely be a go-to guide for the novice and veteran administrator alike.

Martin Scanlan, Associate Professor, Boston College's Lynch School of Education

About the Authors

Katie Novak, EdD, is an internationally renowned education consultant, author, graduate instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a former Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts. Katie has more than 19 years of experience in teaching and administration, an earned doctorate in curriculum and teaching, and ten published books, including the best-selling education book, UDL Now!.

You can find her online at katienovakudl.com and on Twitter at @KatieNovakUDL.

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Kristan Rodriguez, PhD., is a successful consultant and former superintendent specializing in Universal Design for Learning. Dr. Rodriguez earned a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Boston College and has had a career as a K-12 administrator, college professor, and consultant since 2001. She has presented nationally on leadership and learning for the past 16 years. In both her speaking and writing, she draws upon her experience as a central office administrator, building administrator, teacher, and professor. Dr. Rodriguez is the founder of Rodriguez Educational Consulting Agency.

You can follow Dr. Rodriguez on Twitter at @dr_rodriguez21.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Building Your Understanding

Chapter 2: Using Evidence-Based Decision-Making to Begin the Work

Chapter 3: Analyzing and Interpreting the Data for the Needs Assessment

Chapter 4: UDL and Strategic Thinking

Chapter 5: An Integrated District Strategy

Chapter 6: Professional Development That Models UDL Principles

Chapter 7: UDL in the Classroom

Chapter 8: UDL and the Art of the Meeting

Chapter 9: UDL Family-Community Engagement

Afterword

Appendix

References

Index

Acknowledgments

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4. Elevating Co-Teaching through UDL

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Elizabeth Stein

Date

2016

About the Book

Co-teaching-the practice of having special education and regular education teachers work together in inclusive classrooms-is one way to ensure that all students have equal access to challenging academic content. But the practice is a challenging one, requiring thoughtful planning and execution by cooperative classroom professionals.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing inclusive learning environments, offers co-teachers structure and guidance in pursuing their goal to create successful learning environments for all students. In this book, veteran co-teacher and UDL expert Elizabeth Stein shows how to apply the UDL principles and guidelines to the practice of co-teaching.

How does UDL inform the lesson-planning process? What does UDL look like in the classroom? What role does formative assessment play? How do you get buy-in for the UDL approach from administrators, parents, and students themselves? These and other questions are answered in this must-have book for anyone interested in co-teaching.

Elevating Co-Teaching Through UDL by Elizabeth Stein is available as paperback ($34.99, 242 pages, ISBN: 9781930583580) and EPUB ($34.99, ISBN: 9781930583597) format.
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About the Author

Elizabeth Stein teaches special education in an inclusion setting at a middle school on Long Island, New York. She has more than two decades' experience teaching at the elementary, middle, and college levels. She coordinates her district's mentor-teacher program and holds the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification. She authors a popular monthly blog, "Two Teachers in the Room," at the website MiddleWeb.com. You can follow Elizabeth on Twitter at @ElizabethLStein.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: Understanding Co-teaching through the Lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Chapter 1: Transform Co-teaching Approaches with Universal Design for Learning

Chapter 2: Embrace Learner Variability the UDL Way

Chapter 3: Instructional Design: Making the UDL Mind-set Shift

PART II: Teacher Workshop: Elevating Co-teaching by Applying UDL

Chapter 4: Planning Powerful Instruction

Chapter 5: UDL in Action

Chapter 6: Empowering Students as UDL Partners

Chapter 7: More Strategies and Structures to Promote Learner Expertise

Appendix

References

Index

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