Supporting every student means celebrating strengths and ensuring the curriculum is accessible to all students. This document summaries a session delivered at the UDL-IRN Summit, focusing on sharing on sharing the learning of the opportunities and challenges associated with advancing educator practice in Universal Design for Learning in a district where full inclusion is the standard within all 38 schools: elementary and secondary. It will share the story of how a variety of organizational barriers had to be removed in order to create fertile ground to advance student-centered pedagogy. The strategic moves that were made as a district have energized its system and are supporting the goal of creating expert learners, young and old!