"UDL Implementation: A Tale of Four Districts is the story of four school districts taking the journey into the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) implementation process. Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland, Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, Cecil County Public Schools in Maryland and Chelmsford Public Schools in Massachusetts participated in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project to explore and pilot processes and tools developed to support UDL Implementation within their own unique districts. The story is told primarily through the voices of the dedicated educator leaders from these districts and the UDL facilitators who supported them. During the one-year grant, the districts worked with CAST, Inc. to develop and implement an effective and sustainable district plan to support the integration of Universal Design for Learning."
HIAT (High Incidence Accessible Technology) offers a set of resources, planners, videos and examples in assisting schools to implement UDL in schools. The three step process includes:
> Increase Awareness with Staff
> Create a PLC
> Implement UDL School-wide
What an excellent resource in starting the school year with the goal of implementing UDL!
The UDL Implementation Research Network (UDL-IRN) is hosting a summit focusing on UDL implementation and associated research on March 6 & 7th, 2014 at the Johns Hopkins University Columbia Campus, Columbia, MD (15-20 minutes from the Baltimore Washington Airport). The intent of this summit is to gather practitioners and researchers to discuss the systematic implementation of UDL in pre-school, K-12, and higher education classrooms. The summit will be a unique opportunity to collaborate with a select group of leaders who are actively engaged in UDL implementation efforts.
The IMPLEMENT sessions offer UDL implementation examples, supports for using the UDL Guidelines for curriculum design & instruction, and UDL tools, resources, and processes for effective classroom implementation of UDL.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
The National Center on UDL is pleased to announce the launch of a new UDL Series session, UDL Implementation: A Process of Change.
Please join us starting on Thursday, January 10th to learn about the UDL implementation process. In this session, CAST and district leaders describe the five phases of UDL implementation and offer examples of how districts apply the principles of UDL to decision-making and planning.
This map represents information about state level Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Universal Design (UD) activities across the country. The information was gathered from state and federal website searches and includes state level documents and information shared by higher education institutions.
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