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.

UDL Now!: A Teacher's Monday-Morning Guide to Implementing Common Core Standards Using Universal Design for Learning

Novak, Katie

Politics & Social Sciences

CAST Professional Publishing

More than 6 million children with disabilities in North America require assistive technology and related services each year in order to participate and succeed in school. This book, Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology, provides an essential guide for assessing a child's needs, choosing and implementing the right technologies and services, and training education professionals in how to optimize learning with these critical tools.

Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology: A Comprehensive Guide to Assistive Technology Services

Bowser, Gayl

Reed, Penny

Carl, Diana Foster

Fonner, Kelly

Foss, Terry Vernon

Korsten, Jane Edgar

Lalk, Kathleen

Larson, Joan Breslin

Marfilius, Scott

McCloskey, Susan

Zabala, Joy Smiley

More than 6 million children with disabilities in North America require assistive technology and related services each year in order to participate and succeed in school. This book, Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology, provides an essential guide for assessing a child's needs, choosing and implementing the right technologies and services, and training education professionals in how to optimize learning with these critical tools.

UDL in the Cloud helps educators design and deliver more accessible, engaging, and effective online learning experiences. Drawing on years of experience in K-12 and postsecondary settings, authors Katie Novak and Tom Thibodeau offer a highly practical approach to developing e-courses, virtual snow days, flipped classes, and blended learning experiences that meet the needs of diverse learners.

UDL in the Cloud!: How to Design and Deliver Online Education Using Universal Design for Learning

Computers & Technology

Thibodeau, Tom

Networking & Cloud Computing

Write the World’s inaugural edition of their “Best of” series is a compilation of fiction, nonfiction and poetry written by young writers ages 13-18 from around the world. Representing over fifty countries and many cultures, this book reflects the “best of 2016” from published pieces on the Write the World website (www.writetheworld.com), along with selected prompts, reviews and other responses from well known adult authors and critics.

Write the World Best of 2016: Young Voices Across the Globe

Cochran, Liza

Teen & Young Adult

This second edition of Write the World’s series is a compilation of fiction, nonfiction and poetry written by young writers ages 13-18 from around the world. Representing over fifty countries and many cultures, this book reflects the “best of 2017” from published pieces on the Write the World website (www.writetheworld.com), along with selected prompts, reviews and other responses from well known adult authors and critics.

Write the World Best of 2017: Young Voices Across the Globe

This is the first book to consider scaled-up implementation of Universal Design for Learning in schools, districts, and even states. In this collections of case stories, veteran educators and administrators share their stories, tips, and lessons learned from implementing UDL in a variety of settings. Elizabeth Berquist, a leading voice in the burgeoning UDL field, edits and contributes to the collection. In addition to specific strategies for scaling up UDL, the book provides ideas for improving teacher professional development and classroom practice.

UDL: Moving from Exploration to Integration

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The cultural and linguistic diversity of students is on the rise, and educators want to know the most effective ways to teach English language learners (ELLs). Two research-based frameworks—Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which addresses the innate brain-based differences of learners, and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a pedagogy that responds to learners' cultural differences—can help. In this important new book, UDL experts and bestselling authors Patricia Kelly Ralabate and Loui Lord Nelson offer a unique lesson planning process that blends UDL and CRT so that educators can proactively meet the learning needs of ELLs.

Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners: The UDL Approach

Ralabate EdD, Patti Kelly

Nelson, Loui Lord

Let Them Thrive provides parents with a practical understanding of how education works--and how it can work better--for their children. Every learner is as unique as his or her fingerprints. But one-size-fits-all schooling doesn't account for those variations. In this highly readable book (with unique cartoon illustrations), bestselling author, educator, and parent Katie Novak introduces the research-based framework Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Parents learn the origins of UDL in the learning sciences and in practice. (UDL is prominent in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act). They also learn strategies, tips, and tools to support their children's learning in school and in life. Let Them Thrive is an important new contribution to the growing literature on UDL, the first such book directly aimed at parents.

Let Them Thrive: A Playbook for Helping Your Child Succeed in School and in Life

Parenting & Relationships

Novak EdD, Katie

Parenting

The iPad is a powerful educational device: versatile, mobile, engaging, and accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities.
Dr. Luis Pérez draws on years of classroom teaching and his own experience with a visual impairment to offer savvy tips and strategies for making the most of the iPad. 
Perez shows how students with and without disabilities can become empowered creators and publishers of their own work. Teachers and parents of students in general education and special education settings will learn about the huge number of up-to-date iPad applications that they can use today.
Learn about multimedia development, digital photography, blogs and websites, writing and reading supports, accommodations and supports for speech, vision, communications, executive functioning and more. Tips for using Google tools and highlights of favorite apps are sprinkled throughout this short, highly readable book.

Learning on the Go: How to Personalize Education with the iPad (CAST Skinny Books)

Perez, Luis F.

Software

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UDL Now!: A Teacher's Monday-Morning Guide to Implementing Common Core Standards Using Universal Design for Learning

Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology: A Comprehensive Guide to Assistive Technology Services

Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology: A Comprehensive Guide to Assistive Technology Services

UDL in the Cloud!: How to Design and Deliver Online Education Using Universal Design for Learning

Write the World Best of 2016: Young Voices Across the Globe

Write the World Best of 2017: Young Voices Across the Globe

UDL: Moving from Exploration to Integration

Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners: The UDL Approach

Let Them Thrive: A Playbook for Helping Your Child Succeed in School and in Life

Learning on the Go: How to Personalize Education with the iPad (CAST Skinny Books)