UDL tool for describing students' strengths, weakness, and interests in terms of the 3 brain networks. Can be used with individual students and then combined into class profile. Since these are the original CAST tools, we used them in the UDL project. However, since then, I have kept an eye out for other ways of doing class and student profiles.
Great book by Jennifer Katz is based on 16 years of teaching experience. She describes her 3 block model of UDL implementation using many concrete examples from her own teaching experience. Jennifer uses Gardiner's Intelligences for student profiles and there is an example of a report card done with Gardiner's intelligences on p. 154-155. Not sure if this is UDL in a traditional sense but certainly many aspects would fit.
Nice poetry unit by Fairview UDL team organized by Gardner's intelligences. On an NID the staff got together and brainstormed these ideas for a school-wide poetry unit. This school uses Gardner's Multiple Intelligences for student profiles. I like to use this example in conjunction with the Judith Katz example of an assessment done using Gardner's Inteligences.
Start Where They Are contains a CD with useful Learner Profile tools that can be printed as Black Line Masters.
This is a fantastic collection of Web Tools organized by type of learner: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
Alberta resource for creating and building on a detailed learner profile which transitions from elementary through high school. Includes questionnaires/graphic organizers for a variety of students, parents, teachers.
Faye Brownlie's new book about the Learner Support Model. UDL philosophies definitely underlie her thinking although the three main principles of UDL she outlines are not the 3 main principles usually cited by CAST. Many great practical examples. Includes a Class Review template that many teachers find useful.
SET-BC success story features one of my students who participated in a self-directed IEP pilot project in Prince Rupert. The Choice Maker materials were used in formulating the self-directed learning plans.
The Choice Maker Kit was used very successfully in the Innovations Grant Project in Prince Rupert. The teachers involved in the project went on to create their own custom learning plan template which was completed by every student in the mainstream grade 9 science class.
Ira Socol wiki post on students acquiring toolbelts. Has links to his original posts on toolbelt theory.
Ira Socol talks about building student independence by helping them understand which AT tools will help them learn and function better. It's similar to Joy Zabala's SETT framework, but Socol uses the TEST approach (Task, environment, skills, tool)
Wiki I created to document what's happening as I work with a group of grade 8 teachers who want to help students acquire more tools and skills (both high and low tech) for use in high school. Based on Ira Socol's Toolbelt Theory.
Fantastic 17 minute video by Tod Rose at Harvard describing how designing for average designs for no one. Uses an example from the Air Force and applies it to education. I usually play the first 6 minutes of this video in a UDL presentation.