Choice Isn’t Lowering the Bar — It’s Raising the Ceiling

What if the thing holding back your strongest student work isn't rigor — it's the fact that you've assigned one product to thirty different people? We spend a lot of time designing what students will learn. We spend a lot less time thinking about who gets left out when we also dictate exactly how they …

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UDL on the Slopes: Think of Your Class Like a Ski Resort

What is UDL?  UDL? This is not just another educational acronym. Universal Design for Learning is a framework that benefits ALL students. When I started teaching and learned about UDL during a professional development, I wasn’t sure how to implement this framework or how it would impact my students. Fast forward 23 years later and …

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