Check out a live demonstration of the Corgi application: CAST & KU’s interactive, digital graphic organizers designed to support higher-order thinking skills, STEM learning, content organization, and collaboration. We’ll utilize Corgi’s Comparison Guide to showcase how learners can collaborate remotely on an NGSS-aligned science lesson. Join us to experience this free, Google-based tool and brainstorm how you could teach with Corgi in your learning setting. Get a sneak peek of upcoming developments and learn about research and co-design opportunities. 

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When literacy is a barrier for learners, it affects them in every environment. Join us for a dynamic discussion about UDL and Read&Write, a universally designed literacy toolbar that not only removes barriers to literacy and learning, but also helps students become more self-directed, strategic and resourceful learners.

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This qualitative study examines experience-based UDL applications through autobiographical memory narratives among teacher candidates and educational practitioners in special education programs. This presentation highlights benefits and challenges to the UDL reflective cycle through the autobiographical memory narratives. The findings include (1) self-awareness of making meaningful changes in teaching practices, and (2) interactions with their learning experience through a UDL framework while taking the role of a teacher and learner. Participants are encouraged to engage in our interactive discussions on the development, measurements, and analysis of the UDL reflective cycle and the autobiographical memory narrative research framework along with research findings.

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In May of 2020, the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative was launched to empower schools to move learning outside. The pandemic revealed the true depth of the digital divide and illuminated the trauma of social isolation. Fears of learning loss exacerbated by systemic social and economic inequities began playing out across the country and the globe. The voices advocating for outdoor learning grew louder. A grand experiment was afoot. While distance learning became the norm for many, some schools took a different approach and began moving learning outdoors.  In this session we will discuss the WHY of outdoor learning with professor of education Dr. Helene Harte and landscape architecture professor Claire Latané. We will discuss the HOW of outdoor learning with outdoor science educator Heather Molloy and international education architect Prakash Nair.  You will leave with the information necessary to activate or expand outdoor learning at your school.

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We are co-designing a program to locate multi-generational makerspace communities in affordable housing community centers to build peer-to-peer support and create opportunities for discovery, creativity, innovation, and STEM-focused futures. The goal: empower affordable housing communities, through UDL-informed antiracist practices, to achieve the futures they desire.

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This panel presentation highlights the work of “UDLPartners”, a strategic collaboration between the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit, a professional development K-12 service provider, and the Cabrini University School of Education. The session explains our cohort model design, framing UDL implementation with an explicit lens on CRT and social-emotional learning, with the primary goal of increasing practical and theoretical capacities to engage all learners. We will share components of our professional communities and introduce our new social media and web presence to share strategies and resources to the larger UDL community. The impact of our work both in K-12 and teacher preparation will also be featured.

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In order to overcome or reduce barriers for students, we must be able to accurately recognize and identify the barriers to equitable systems of education. This session is designed for educators who hope to gain a deeper understanding of the systems of power that perpetuate racism, what implicit bias is and how it can negatively impact educational outcomes, aspects of identity that contribute to learner variability, and actionable steps they can take toward change.

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Gaining campus-wide momentum in the adoption of UDL can be challenging. Educating diverse college and university stakeholders in ways UDL can support their unique goals takes finesse. The Deck of Spaces: Higher Education Edition™ is a valuable tool kit to spark ideas and initiate conversations across every facet of campus. We will engage attendees with the tool kit to explore the untapped potential of your campus spaces from furniture in the classrooms to student support services to the campus-wide user experience. The deck is also a strong advocacy tool to expand the conversation around UDL on campuses and illustrate the potential of UDL principles to impact the bottom line of collegiate institutions in these challenging times. This session will give attendees an opportunity to “test drive” the deck and understand its many possible applications in support of UDL at the higher ed level.

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UDL Deck of Spaces: Higher Education Edition
Gould Evans Education

Gaining campus-wide momentum in the adoption of UDL can be challenging. Educating diverse college and university stakeholders in ways UDL can support their unique goals takes finesse. The Deck of Spaces: Higher Education Edition™ is a valuable tool kit to spark ideas and initiate conversations across every facet of campus. We will engage attendees with the tool kit to explore the untapped potential of your campus spaces from furniture in the classrooms to student support services to the campus-wide user experience. The deck is also a strong advocacy tool to expand the conversation around UDL on campuses and illustrate the potential of UDL principles to impact the bottom line of collegiate institutions in these challenging times. This session will give attendees an opportunity to “test drive” the deck and understand its many possible applications in support of UDL at the higher ed level.

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UDL Deck of Spaces: Higher Education Edition
Gould Evans Education

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Certificate is designed to engage professors in self-directed learning, interactive group learning, one-on-one coaching, and peer-to-peer sharing activities, as they work through understanding and applying the UDL framework at progressively deeper levels. The certificate is designed to leverage and connect UDL expertise across the college to support sustainable adoption. We compare this long-term goal to the growth of the ‘rhizome’. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on how aspects of this model could be implemented at their own institutions.

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