I am in Boston at the Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children. Throughout the morning and afternoon, I attended a series of UDL presentations hosted by Grace Meo and David Rose, among others. Following lunch, David introduced the 1:15 session with a comment reflecting CAST’s beliefs regarding intervention, assessment, curriculum and children. David’s comment on the topic of where RTI, Progress Monitoring and the principles of UDL meet was this: At CAST, We are not looking at students as “non-responsive” (to the various interventions in the tiers of Response to Intervention) but rather, we are looking at the curriculum as “non-responsive” to the learner.  

We look at the curriculum as the problem or the barrier to student learning - we are looking for a responsive curriculum.

CAST has a new online tool to help educators analyse their instructional designs and to gather feedback from students. This new tool, “The UDL Self-Check” is definitely worth a look!  

Tags: cast, convention, council for exceptional children, curriculum, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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