Community of Practice

Guiding Questions:

➡️Who are our learners? 

➡️ What do they know about their own learning preferences and paths? 

➡️ How can we help learners practice the skill of learning?

       Guiding Questions:

➡️ What do the UDL Guidelines offer in order to address implicit bias in individuals, institutions, and cultures.

➡️ Where do biases/barriers come from?

➡️ What can we do to address biases/barriers in our schools?

Guiding Questions:

➡️What labels do you hear educators using to describe students? 

➡️ How can you advocate for learners’ variability to help disrupt blaming the learner? 

➡️ What actions can you take to intentionally design for learners who vary?

Guiding Questions

➡️How do you write goals that separate the means from the end?

➡️Why is it important for learners to establish their personal learning goals and how can you support learners in that process?

➡️What opportunities are you providing for learners to reflect on their learning goals?

Guiding Questions

➡️What design elements illustrate you are basing designs on assets not deficits?

➡️When do you identify opportunities to provide options in representation and expression?

➡️How does your instructional design offer predictable supports and high levels of rigor for all students?

Guiding Questions

➡️How do you model the use of predictable supports and assistive technology in your instruction?

➡️What options are you providing to make learning accessible?

➡️What guidance and reflective opportunities are you offering learners in making decisions about the options they choose for learning?

Guiding Questions

➡️ To what extent does the data we collect from classroom, district, and state assessments further support student learning?

➡️ How do we ensure our assessments align to our goals?

➡️ Compare and contrast achievement and learning? 

Guiding Questions

➡️ To what extent does brain research influence the instructional design?

➡️ What have we learned from brain research and what impact has what we've learned had on our instructional practices?

Coming Soon

➡️How do students articulate learning and its purpose? 

➡️How do students demonstrate persistence and motivation to learn?

➡️To what extent do students exhibiting agency impact others and the learning culture?