Visit the CAST Website and read the NEW UDL Guidelines.

Directions for this Hand-On Activity:
Download the Tool Analysis here.
Select a Technology Tool from the list provided. Complete the Tool Analysis using the CAST guidelines to help facilitate your analysis. Be sure to provide examples of how your tool addresses the principles of Universal Design for Learning. 

As I walked out of the public library last evening, a reserved and eagerly awaited for book in hand, gratitude filled my heart as I thought to myself, “I am proud to be a librarian.”
Driving toward the mall, I described to my husband why I enjoy being a school librarian: If the work I do each day in my school helps [...]

Tags: classroom, education, joy, Leadership, professional learning community, reading, students, teaching, Whole Child

I don’t like Shakespeare. I think that the stories could be told in much more detail with far fewer words. I have a good number of friends that love Shakespeare, though, and every one of them can trace their love for Shakespeare’s works back to a special teacher that taught Romeo and Juliet (or Hamlet, [...]

Tags: high tech, STEM

Parker Palmer’s Courage to Teach is a book that packs quite a few large ideas into each inch of print. Below you will find several quotes from Courage to Teach. Select one that resonates with you (either positively or negatively) and respond to it. Let’s see if we can’t raise the level of dialog on [...]

Tags: courage to teach, parker palmer, teaching

“Teachers will live up to their potential as leaders only when the school environment supports their efforts.”

Listen to a conversation with Dr. Craig Phillips of North Ridgeville City Schools: [audio:http://www.centerforleadership.org/podcasts/Phillips.mp3]
Learn how North Ridgeville utilizes the principles of Universal Design for Learning and other select initiatives to help build teacher capacity and increase student achievement.
Take a look at North Ridgeville’s [...]

Tags: craig phillips, empowering teachers, Leadership, north ridgevile, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Christine Foote, an Instructional Coach with the Lakewood City Schools facilitated a dynamite presentation during the Middle and High School Network Meetings in January. Listen below for her presentation, keeping in mind that this was a live discussion. There are times when participants without mics interacted and there is also a spot where Christine had some unknown mic trouble (fuzzy noise). 
Listen and Learn:[audio:http://www.centerforleadership.org/podcasts/FA_CF.mp3]
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Tags: christine foote, formative assessment, lakewood, westerville