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Event: Designing for Equity and Achievement of All Learners

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Event: Designing for Equity and Achievement of All Learners

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An upcoming event December 9-10 in Orlando, FL

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We put learners at the center of the educational experience. This event allows for the discovery of how the UDL framework can help design flexible learning opportunities and environments to address the cultural and learning needs of students. This special event is sponsored by the UDL-IRN, PSRtI, and the Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute. With the support of UDL experts and practitioners, individual participants and school teams will construct an effective implementation plan.

DAY 1, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9th, 2019

Focus on UDL implementation from the perspective of designing for equity and achievement for all learners, including:

Designing to overcome gaps

District report cards

Literacy and UDL

And more!

Other highlights include:

Breakout and small group sessions with national speakers, implementers from the state of Florida

Educator resources

DAY 2, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10th, 2019

Day two extends day one with a focus on UDL implementation and will feature UDL Talks from local practitioners. Regional coaches and national leaders from the UDL-IRN will return to support attendees with the design of implementation plans. The day's format will be based on:

UDL implementation tools and resources for attendees.

UDL planning: Work with national and regional leaders to design your team's action plan.

Associate Credential Session (Tuesday post-event, additional ticket purchase necessary)
Take the first step toward your UDL credentials with an hands-on training to obtain your UDL Associate Micro-Credential. Hosted by Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute. Expect the session to run from 3:45-5:00pm after the main event ends on Tuesday afternoon.

DAY 3, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11th, 2019 (POST-CON, additional ticket purchase necessary)

Field Trip to the Future ($20)
Join us on an exciting trip to the future! We will board our luxury transport (bus) and begin our journey with a visit to PSI High, a Project-Based Learning high school in Seminole County. PSI High is an immersive, full-time program located within Seminole High School where students work in a high-tech office instead of a classroom. Students join teams with their peers and teachers to solve real community, business, and social problems.

We then transition to The UCF Institute for Simulation and Training, an internationally recognized research institute focused on advancing human-centered modeling and simulation technology and increasing our understanding of simulation&#39;s role in training and education. This event will give you an opportunity to experience UDL principles in action and view innovative technologies. The cost for this adventure is $20.00 per person.
CORE Credential Session ($60)
Move beyond the "why" of UDL and into a deeper exploration of the essential components of any learning environment or experience designed with UDL in mind. Join us for a dive into the Learning Designed CORE Credential. Hosted by Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute.

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We put learners at the center of the educational experience. This event allows for the discovery of how the UDL framework can help design flexible learning opportunities and environments to address the cultural and learning needs of students. This special event is sponsored by the UDL-IRN, PSRtI, and the Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute.

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The CAST 5th Annual UDL Symposium: Becoming Expert Learners

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The CAST 5th Annual UDL Symposium: Becoming Expert Learners

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The 2019 UDL Symposium offers an opportunity to explore what we mean by becoming expert learners.

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CAST: The CAST 5th Annual UDL Symposium: Becoming Expert Learners

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The 2019 UDL Symposium offers an opportunity to explore what we mean by becoming expert learners. In sessions that encourage hands-on inquiry, problem-solving, and critical conversations, you will discover how to teach and practice the habits of resourceful, strategic, and motivated learning.

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This planning template guides you through the use of the UDL framework when designing learning engagement.

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Understood is a site focused on supporting parent understanding of education topics.

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At a glance

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) gives all students an equal opportunity to succeed.

This approach to teaching and learning offers flexibility in the ways students access material and show what they know.

UDL also looks for different ways to keep students motivated.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching and learning that gives all students equal opportunity to succeed.

To understand what UDL is, it helps to understand what it's not. The word universal may throw you off. It may sound like UDL is about finding one way to teach all students. But UDL actually takes the opposite approach.

The goal of UDL is to use a variety of teaching methods to remove any barriers to learning. It's about building in flexibility that can be adjusted for every person's strengths and needs. That's why UDL benefits all learners.

This approach to teaching or to workplace training doesn't specifically target people who learn and think differently. But it can be especially helpful for kids with these challenges - including those who have not been formally diagnosed. It can also be very helpful for English language learners.

Watch this video to see what UDL looks like in a fifth-grade classroom.

Dive deeper

Bringing universal design to the classroom

How UDL helps students who learn and think differently

About the author

About the author

Amanda Morin is the author of "The Everything Parent's Guide to Special Education" and the former director of thought leadership at Understood. As an expert and writer, she helped build Understood from its earliest days.

Reviewed by

Reviewed by

Ace Parsi, MPP served as the personalized learning partnership manager at NCLD.

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a teaching approach to help all learners be successful. Read about UDL principals and the benefits of UDL for students.

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UDL Implementation & Research Network (UDL-IRN)

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UDL Implementation & Research Network (UDL-IRN)

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Universal Design for Learning Implementation and Research Network

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With the U.S. Department of Education conducting digital accessibility compliance reviews, our partners at Texthelp created this useful webinar to shed more light on why the audits are taking place and the importance of constantly improving when it comes to accessibility in K-12 and Higher Education.

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Home - Universal Design for Learning Implementation and Research Network

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With the U.S. Department of Education conducting digital accessibility compliance reviews, our partners at Texthelp created this useful webinar to shed more light on why the audits are taking place and the importance of constantly improving when it comes to accessibility in K-12 and Higher Education.

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FREE PDF discusses UDL Implementation

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5-Step UDL Instructional Planning Process

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5-Step UDL Instructional Planning Process

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Used to help educators plan instructional Units

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Until learning has no limits

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CAST is a multifaceted organization with a singular ambition: Bust the barriers to learning that millions of people experience every day. We do this by helping educators and organizations apply insights from the learning sciences and leading-edge practices to educational design and implementation.

Learn about our mission and values

Join Our Team

We're seeking a Chief Science Officer who will lead and grow our research and development work, a Technical Assistance Specialist who will support our well-established National Centers, and an Executive Assistant who will provide administrative support for members of our team.

Learn about our career opportunities

News from CAST

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The Joy Zabala Fellowship in Assistive Technology & Accessible Educational Materials will celebrate the life and work of our dear colleague, Joy Smiley Zabala, EdD.

Friday, August 6, 2021

Ensuring fundamental access to learning for all is CAST's primary work, and accessibility is a foundational component of Universal Design for Learning.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

These exciting new resources will allow schools to guide and measure their use of UDL to create inclusive learning experiences and environments.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Upcoming Learning Events

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This online course is designed for anyone interested in the theory and practice of UDL.

Monday, September 13 - Monday, December 13, 2021

This webinar will discuss how students receiving special education services fare while learning remotely, including during recent emergency remote learning.

3:30PM - 4:30PM ET on Monday, October 18, 2021

Learn the core concepts and foundations of UDL, practical applications of UDL to lesson design, and how to support flexible, inclusive instruction.

Thursday, October 21 - Friday, October 22, 2021

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Receive the weekly email update directly in your inbox! This week, listen to the latest UDL in 15 Minutes podcast about how to get started with UDL. You can also participate in a study on inclusive course design rubrics. Don't...

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Link to UDL Theory & Practice

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Read Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice for Free in Clusive! - CAST

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Our flagship publication is now available at no cost on our flexible and customizable digital reading tool.

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UDL Analogy - The 7-10 Split ing Bowling

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UDL Analogy - The 7-10 Split ing Bowling

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Shelley Moore: Transforming Inclusive Education

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Resources and Credentials Launching in two weeks!

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Credential 2: UDL Analysis

In this credential, you have the opportunity to analyze a real, imperfect scenario using Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This is a great way to start observing UDL in action. Estimated time to complete: 2 - 4...

Estimated time to complete: 2 weeks

Cost: $100

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In this credential, you have the opportunity to analyze a real, imperfect scenario using Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This is a great way to start observing UDL in action. Estimated time to complete: 2 - 4... Estimated time to complete: 2 weeks Cost: $100

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March 28-29th (pre-con 3.27)

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March 14th & 15th with pre-conference sessions on March 13th, 2023 to be hosted both in-person and virtually

The UDL Implementation and Research Network (UDL-IRN) is hosting the 10th Annual International Summit both in-person and virtually March 13th-15th, 2023. The in-person event will be in Orlando, FL at the Rosen Plaza Hotel . All participants will have access to our online portion of the event. We'll be celebrating a decade of bringing together thousands of educators from around the globe to network, collaborate, research, share, and learn content centered on Universal Design for Learning.

As this is our first ever fully hybrid Summit, we are planning to both continue our tradition of UDL-ized online content and to bring back our in-person gathering with a bang. You can expect a fully customizable conference experience. Whether you are attending virtually from your backyard or preparing to party in Orlando with your UDL colleagues, this year's event will be the biggest UDL event of the year and you won't want to miss it.

As in the past, the UDL-IRN International Summit is designed to meet the needs of educators experienced at implementing UDL practices and UDL novices alike. With multiple learning platforms, including informal networking sessions, in depth pre-conference sessions, design labs, formal workshops, UDL Talks, and asynchronous sessions, the IRN strives to meet the learning preferences of each attendee.

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The UDL Implementation and Research Network (UDL-­IRN) is hosting the 10th Annual International Summit both in-person and virtually March 13th-15th, 2023. The in-person event will be in Orlando, FL at the Rosen Plaza Hotel . All participants will have access to our online portion of the event.

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Learn about the framework!

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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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Ideas for how UDL can help with space design

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Universal Design for Learning Implementation and Research Network

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The UDL-IRN and Multistudio Present the Deck of Spaces – Universal Design for Learning Implementation and Research Network

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As work across the field continues to demonstrate the importance of considering the various design elements of the learning environment, we have been reflecting on how space design actually impacts learning and associated behaviors. Working with Multistudio, an award winning…