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Literacy Beat blog features CAST's Science Writer: the free online tool to scaffold students's writing of science reports.

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The TEAL Center (Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy), designed to improve the quality of teaching in adult education in the content areas, posted UDL suggestions and examples in their "Just Write!" guide for instructors.

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For the past few years, George Van Horn, Special Education Director at the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (BCSC) in Colombus, Indiana and current Indiana CEC President has implemented a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework across the district. As a result, BCSC has lowered its number of students eligible for special education, eliminated many discipline issues and seen student achievement gains. This week, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), highlighted the district’s accomplishments during a hearing in before the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate.

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During a February 7, 2012 hearing of the U.S. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on “The Promise of Accessible Technology,” Chairman Senator Harkin and the Superintendent of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, Dr. Quick, praised UDL’s impact on school outcomes. Listen to the hearing to learn more.

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Maryland's MSDE website has UDL resources and a fun activity to learn how to plan for all students (top right of page)

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Implementing UDL in British Columbia school district improves reading and writing scores.

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Kathleen McClaskey's UDL Scoop.it. Video UDL: Empowering the Next Generation is worth watching.

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Information about how some school districts are switching from textbooks to digital resources.

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This is the home page of BCSC's wiki. BCSC is a school district in Indiana that has embraced UDL. There is a cool 5 minute UDL basics video and a virtual UDL Wheel.

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In November of last year, the Department of Education released its National Education Technology Plan (NETP) after 18 months of input from educators, government officials, and industry people.
Earlier this year here on Edutopia, blogger Audrey Watters reviewed the plan and solicited questions from the Edutopia community about the plan. We sent the highest-ranking questions to DOE's Karen Cator who answered each of them -- on video -- here.

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Blog post about using UDL to create learner-centered educational design

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Blog post about UDL in a college composition class

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Discussion and sharing of how mobile apps can be used to create digital learning environments using the UDL framework

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Article describes using iPads to supplement instruction in reading and math and facilitate communication for students with autism spectrum disorders and others who require support through the use of augmentative communication devices.

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This is a blog post from Making the Connection between Youth with Disabilities & Employment that describes how to apply the UDL principles to workforce development and workplace settings to enhance these environments for people with and without disabilities.

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During the week of June 27th the Fairfax County Public Schools and DSS will be presenting a workshop: Strengthening Literacy Instruction Universal Design for Learning (UDL) presented by Peggy King-Sears, Ph.D. The focus will be on designing literacy instruction that sufficiently challenges and differentiates for learners with and without disabilities.

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AFT TEACH Conference Together Educating America's Children
2011 July 11-13, Washington, DC


Practical tools, professional knowledge and inspiration
A UDL session will be one of the showcased events

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June 1 & 2 Better Learning by Design conference -- a forum for presentations and discussion on Universal Design for Learning attracted 100 participants from five states and Canada.

The conference featured keynotes speeches by David Rose and Todd Rose from Mass.-based Center for Applied Special Technology, or CAST, which pioneered the UDL pedogagy three decades ago and now works to expand its application.

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