Watch: Early Childhood Pre-3rd: Click HERE 

Lesson Plan Example: This Pre-K lesson about apples provides numerous options and choices to sample apples and create an opinion about their favorite using one or more of their senses.

Read: Right From the Start - Universal Design for Preschool

Read: Enhancing Early Ed Classrooms with UDL

Read: Universal Design of Early Education

UDL Checklist for Early Childhood Environments

Watch: Kindergarten: Click HERE

Lesson Plan Example: What is weather? Kindergarten science lesson. 

Instructional Units - Sample Lessons: Elementary School Mathematics UDL

Instructional Units: Elementary English and Language Arts UDL

Watch: 1st Grade: Click HERE

Lesson Plan Example: This grade 1 science lesson helps all learners understand how animals adapt to their environments by camouflaging themselves. 

Instructional Units - Sample Lessons: Elementary School Mathematics UDL

Instructional Units: Elementary English and Language Arts UDL

Read (Visual): SEL - UDL and SEL Crosswalk 

Read: This peer-reviewed article discusses the importance of school counselors building competence in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (pg.4) but the focus of the article is how to better meet the needs of students with disabilities through school counseling and collaboration with teachers. 

Watch: UDL for English Learners from CAST (Webinar - 1 hour)

Read: EL - Article: Increasing Engagement of English Learners Through Universal Design for Learning 

Read: EL - Article: Why UDL Matters for English Language Learners

Read: EL - UDL and GLAD Crosswalk

Watch: Special Education: Click HERE (10 different videos included in link)

Read: This is an article from the AOTA on UDL in Occupational Therapy. 

Read: This article, Universal Design for Learning: Speech-Language Pathologists and Their Teams Making the Common Core Curriculum Accessible is about how speech and language pathologists can make rigorous instruction accessible to all learners through the principles of UDL. This is peer-reviewed and a heavy read but the findings are awesome. 

Read - PDF Resource: Special Education - This UDL and SDI crosswalk helps to clarify the differences between a universal design that includes scaffolds and accommodations and specifically designed instruction and modifications for students with disabilities.

Read: Response-to-Instruction and Universal Design for Learning: How Might They Intersect in the General Education Classroom?

Resources About Growth Mindset - How You Can Incorporate SEL into Your Small Group Time With Students

• Watch: Message of Growth Mindset

• Watch: This Is Why Will Smith Wants You to Fail Before You Succeed - Fail Forward

• Read: The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle

• Read: Productive Struggle is a Learner’s Sweet Spot

• Read & Listen: Supporting Student Productive Struggle

• Read: 8 Teaching Habits that Block Productive Struggle in Math

• Read: How to Normalize Mistake Making and Struggle in Class 

Resources About Positive Interactions:

• Read & Listen: Cult of Pedagogy - Let’s Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover

• Read: Building Positive Relationships with Students: What Brain Science Tells Us

• Read: 7 ways to praise students as well as a more in-depth guide about The Power of Effective Praise

• Watch & Read: The Magic Ration 5 to 1

• Read: Why a Positive Approach to Behavior?