The first 45 books will be free to WA State educators and parents who register and join the event within a week of registering, you will receive a FREE Book Survey to provide us with your shipping address.
Revitalize your teaching and engage your learners with sustainable and rewarding practices shared in the book The Shift to Student-Led: Reimagining Classroom Workflows with UDL and Blended Learning” by Catlin Tucker and Katie Novak. This book addresses the pressing need for educators to reclaim their passion and purpose amidst the challenges of today’s classrooms. This book offers a lifeline to teachers who are interested in transforming their teaching with Universal Design for Learning. The facilitators will guide participants through a journey of examining traditional teacher-led workflows and share practical experiences of the transformative power of UDL and blended learning. In addition, this work fits well with the new Teacher and Principal Evaluation and Growth Program (TPEP). Join us to release the burdens that conventional instruction places on teachers and students and place your students at the helm of their learning journey.
Inclusive 365: Ed Tech Strategies for Every Day of the Year
“This engaging book includes daily strategies accompanied by examples of tools that can be implemented immediately to design meaningful instruction. Topics covered include role-playing games for social-emotional learning, building literacy through captioned video, coding to teach early literacy, text-to-speech for math and reading, and much more! Educators across the world are working to design individualized instruction that empowers every student to become experts at learning. Technology and instructional interventions designed to support students with disabilities often eventually become mainstream and used by the masses. These practices provide a pathway for designing inclusive, equitable and accessible educational experiences that meet the needs of every individual learner. The heart of the book is the shift in mindset that occurs by exploring a different practical, inclusive strategy each day and infusing these strategies into everyday practice.”
We are calling these book study sessions “Inclusive Chatters.” These sessions are a time for educators to come together to talk and collaborate around tech ideas to support inclusive learning. Facilitators will provide guiding questions to encourage participants to share their favorite parts of the book as well as strategies they plan to apply from the book.
Comprehensive Literacy for All: Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities to Read and Write
Dates
Sep 26th, Oct 24th Nov 28th, Dec 12th Jan 30th, Feb 28th Mar 26th, Apr 23th May 28th
Join us as we embark on our Literacy for All journey. We will be diving into the groundbreaking book Comprehensive Literacy for All written by Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver (2020). The book is divided into four sections: Core Understandings, Building a Foundation for Literacy, Learning to Read and Write, and Implementation
Rather than go through the book in chronological order, we will tackle this book from a skill teaching perspective to support teachers in meeting the needs of a diverse group of learners. In this year-long book study, we will be starting with setting our core understanding and then discussing the implementation and lesson plans. Then we dive deep into teaching literacy skills focusing on vocabulary work sets the stage for phonological, word work, and reading comprehension. We will be providing resource and lesson plan templates to assist all our Book Study participants in being able to create their own CLFA lessons. This may be a bit unconventional, but our hope is that the teacher and therapist will be able to walk away from each of our 45-minute sessions with resources and practical tips to use in the classroom the very next day. So join us on our journey as we take the road less traveled and mix it up!
Unlearning: Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with UDL
Unlearning: Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with UDL is a groundbreaking book that challenges traditional notions of education and provides practical strategies for creating inclusive and effective learning environments. Using the framework of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Posey and Novak guide educators through the process of unlearning old beliefs and assumptions about teaching and learning, and replacing them with new, more flexible and diverse approaches. With step-by-step guidance on designing and delivering lessons that meet the needs of all learners, as well as practical tips for building relationships with students and engaging families, this book is an essential resource for educators at all levels who are committed to creating more inclusive and equitable classrooms.
Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning
Thoroughly updated to reflect new research and developments in the field of UDL, this book gives K–12 teachers a reader-friendly UDL introduction and a practical framework for implementation, with guidelines and checkpoints for designing effective, barrier-free lesson plans and learning environments. You’ll learn how to use the three core principles of UDL—Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression—to present information in multiple ways and ensure access for all learners. Throughout the book, detailed examples, stories, illustrations, teacher reflections, and activities reinforce UDL principles and help you put them into practice in both virtual and in-person settings.