In UDL Now! Katie Novak provides practical insights and savvy strategies for helping all learners meet high standards using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework for inclusive education that aims to lower barriers to learning and optimize each individual’s opportunity to learn. Chapters include: -- The UDL Guidelines: A Planning Tool You Can’t Live Without -- Recruiting and Engaging Students as UDL Partners -- Two Types of Learning Standards and UDL Implementation -- Choice Assignments: Expressing Knowledge in Endless Ways -- Scaffolding: Setting the Bar High and Raising Students to It -- The Best Ways to Teach Vocabulary -- Using Student Feedback to Inform Instruction -- Assessments, the UDL Way UDL Now! is a fun and effective Monday-morning playbook for great teaching.
Katie Novak is the Assistant Superintendent of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District in Massachusetts and a leading expert on Universal Design for Learning implementation. With 13 years of experience in teaching and administration and an earned doctorate in curriculum and teaching, Novak designs and presents workshops both nationally and internationally focusing on implementation of UDL and the Common Core. She holds a doctorate in education from Boston University.