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Issue Number 27: February 2009
Greetings To All,
Please take a few minutes to check out CAST’s 2009 Professional Development offerings as well as educator resources that are freely available on our website. We are also offering a parent workshop on the CAST UDL Book Builder tool. We value your opinion, so please do take a few minutes to send us some feedback.
Enjoy,
Grace Meo
gmeo@cast.org
2009 UDL Institutes at CAST, Wakefield MA
Universal Design for Learning: New Directions in Higher Education
What higher education faculty needs to know about UDL to improve students’ persistence and retention in their institutions. June 8-10, 2009
Tuition: $795*
Audience: Higher education faculty who are interested in addressing the diversity of students in today’s classrooms.
Universal Design for Learning: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
What school-based educators need to know to design curriculum for today's diverse classrooms. June 24-26, 2009
Tuition: $795*
Audience: School-based educators who want to design curriculum that meets the needs of all learners.
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning
What leaders in education need to know and do to improve achievement of all learners. July 23-24, 2009
Tuition: $550*
Audience: State, district, and school-based leaders and decisions makers who want to impact improved outcomes for all learners.
Universal Design for Learning: Building Reading Comprehension for Grades 6-12
What general and special educators need to know and do to support comprehension skills of ALL students. August 17-19, 2009
Tuition: $795*
Audience: Teacher teams of general and special education teachers from content disciplines at the middle and high school levels.
*A 10% discount is offered to teams of four or more from the same institution that register together.
2009 UDL Parent Workshop at CAST, Wakefield MA
Parent Workshop – Building Books for Young Children
What parents, caregivers, and professionals can do to support the early literacy skills of young children. May 11, 2009
Tuition: $200
Audience: Parents, caregivers, and paraprofessionals who want to learn how to create books that support beginning reading skills for children, ages 4 through 7.
CAST UDL Book Builder
CAST is revising the CAST UDL Book Builder and we would like your feedback. Please take a few minutes to complete the CAST UDL Book Builder survey to help us improve the design and functionality of Book Builder.
COMING SOON: New on the CAST Website UDL Spotlight: Learn about UDL in practice
Educators around the world are applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in highly innovative ways. CAST is pleased to feature these classroom strategies, applications of technology, courses, tools and web sites developed by others as they customize the UDL framework to support their own teaching and learning. We hope these exciting ideas will spark even more UDL innovation.
In our first UDL Spotlight feature, you will hear from Dr. Sandra Yang as she shares her personal exploration and application of UDL principles in her Music One class. She traces the success of UDL for students with and without disabilities; explicit low-tech UDL methodologies for teaching intervals and rhythm; student responses and insights; and formal and informal assessment results.
How do I design curriculum in the UDL way?
The UDL Guidelines will assist you in designing curriculum lessons and units of study in the UDL way Take a look at the full UDL Guidelines or look at the UDL Guidelines Educator Checklist
Thank you for your interest in CAST and our work. It is our intention to send this newsletter to individuals who have requested to receive it. If you believe you are receiving this in error or wish to no longer receive it, you can unsubscribe by sending a message to natconsortium@cast.org with a subject of "unsubscribe consortium".
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Grace J. Meo
Director, Professional Development and Outreach Services
gmeo@cast.org
http://www.cast.org
