“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:
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)

Click here to visit The Center for Courage and Renewal and listen to a podcast about Parker’s book, The Courage to Teach.  
In you are interested in participating in our very popular and “Courageous” book study this summer - please contact us. We look forward to meeting you.

Tags: courage to teach, parker palmer

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:
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Tags: christine foote, formative assessment, lakewood, westerville

“Universal Design for Who?”
“The Center for Leadership in …What exactly do you folks do out there in Lorain County, Ohio?”
Listen and Learn:

In late November 007, Jerry Skully interviewed me for his AM Radio Show, Building a Caring Community on WOBL 130 AM in Oberlin, Ohio. The interview played on the air December 9th.
It [...]

Tags: center for leadership in education, cle, jerry skully, Technology, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), wobl

I attended a class last Thursday, Podcasting with Garage Band. Sorry PC Friends, Garage Band is only for Mac users. *Windows/PC users see note below.
Anywhoo… Using Garage Band to create my very first solo podcast was SO SUPER EASY - it was like, click, click, speak, WHALA!
Seriously.
I text-messaged my hub from the class and said, [...]

Tags: garage band, podcasting

Teacher Feature: October 007
 
Meet our guest teacher, Jody Yoxthimer and listen to learn how she utilizes the principles of Universal Design for Learning in her high school science classroom. Jody also speaks about the power of Interactive Whiteboards and Collaboration.
Jody is available to answer questions through the comments feature of this blog (Leave a [...]

Feeling confused about copyright law, fair use and manipulating resources for digital learning, as part of your “UDL friendly” curriculum?
Don’t feel so bad. The information is confusing and I am a professional librarian!
A session being held tomorrow at The Washington College of Law in Washington, DC should be promising to help clear the confusion: The [...]