Universal Design for Learning

Choice Board Designer

Build Your Own Professional Learning Choice Board

By Beth Stark

About the Choice Board Designer

Make a choice board for professional learning, such as a staff meeting, a workshop, a professional learning community (PLC) or your own learning.

Two boards on this site are ready to use. They show what a finished board can look like: Designing to the Edges UDL Choice Board (opens in a new tab) on the home page and Jigsaw Professional Learning Choice Board (opens in a new tab) in the Aiming for ALL Collection. Use one of them as it is, or design your own here.

Pick 3 to 9 activities and resources on this site, put them in order and add what to do with each one.

When your board is ready, print it, save it as a PDF, download it as a Word document, or copy a link to share. Each board lists the full reference for every resource, and every resource made by someone else names its creator.

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All the Resources

The Choice Board Designer needs JavaScript. Here are all the resources and activities on bethstark.org you can put on a board.

UDL Resources

UDL Resources: A Guided Tour (Take a tour: Guided tour). Six short parts with Beth Stark as your guide. About 30 minutes, at your own pace.
Why UDL and What Is UDL? (Explore: Topic 1). Topic 1 on UDL Resources: an article and two posters about why UDL matters and what it is.
The UDL Guidelines: A Scaffold, Not a Checklist (Explore: Topic 2). Topic 2 on UDL Resources: a quick tour of the UDL Guidelines, the Access row and the UDL Gears.
Design with UDL: Goals and Barriers (Explore: Topic 3). Topic 3 on UDL Resources: design with LUDIA, start with goals, and find the barriers in the design.
Who Is Martha Skidmore? (Read: Article). An article about where the idea of the average came from and why UDL starts with variability.
The Barrier Is in the Design: A Sample (Read: Sample). One barrier example with its clues, ways to reduce it, and the UDL Guidelines and Considerations behind it.
Addressing Bias and Designing for Identity (Read: Webinar summaries). Two pieces from the UDL Essentials LiveBinder. Each summarises a CAST webinar on the UDL Guidelines 3.0, with questions to ask about your own design.
Why UDL? The Goal of UDL Is Learner Agency (Look: Poster). A poster that connects learner agency, the goal of UDL, to the brain networks and the UDL principles.
What We're Really Talking About When We're Talking About UDL (Look: Poster). A poster that names five things we mean when we talk about Universal Design for Learning.
Prioritizing Access: Creating the Conditions for Learner Agency (Look: Poster). An abridged poster of the CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0. It focuses on the Access row: Welcoming Interests & Identities, Perception, and Interaction.
The Four Design Elements (Look: Slide). Goals, assessment, methods and materials: what each one is, what UDL asks of it, and questions to ask about your own design.
Flexible Verbs for Crafting Goals (Look: Poster). Flexible verbs for writing learning goals that leave room for more than one way to show learning, and inflexible verbs to avoid in goals.
UDL Guidelines Explorer (Do: Interactive). The three principles, nine guidelines and 36 considerations of the CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0, with links to CAST and to resources on this site.
Barrier or Important Factor? Card Sort (Do: Card sort). Sort 20 cards, ten at a time. Each answer explains why the card is a barrier in the design or an important factor.
The Barrier Is in the Design: Three Starting Points (Do: Routines). Three professional learning routines for your next staff meeting or UDL professional learning community (PLC), with accessible slides.

Aiming for ALL Accessibility Collection

Aiming for ALL: A Guided Tour (Take a tour: Guided tour). A self-paced guide to the accessibility collection, with Beth Stark as your guide. About 30 to 45 minutes. No sign-in, no tests, no scores.
What About Curb Cuts? (Explore: Pathway 1). Learn why accessibility matters for everyone.
Foundations (Explore: Pathway 2). Learn how accessibility honours our human rights.
Accessibility for Learning Communities (Explore: Pathway 3). Discover ways to make school and school life accessible.
Critical Frameworks and Curriculum Resources (Explore: Pathway 4). Learn about putting access for everyone at the centre of learning.
No-Cost Courses (Explore: Pathway 5). Choose an online accessibility course that is right for you.
No-Cost Digital Resources (Explore: Pathway 6). Try no-cost tools that support accessibility.
Easy Read Guide (Read: Easy Read). The collection in short sentences and pictures.
Glossary by Pathway (Read: Glossary). The acronyms, organisations and key terms used across the collection, grouped by pathway.
UDL Access and Aiming for ALL Crosswalk (Look: Chart). Pathway 3 resources under the CAST UDL Guidelines Access considerations.
POUR Barrier Sort (Do: Activity). Read 12 everyday barriers. Sort each one by the four POUR principles, then see a way to reduce it.
No-Cost Digital Resource Riddle Hunt (Do: Activity). Solve rhyming riddles to find the tools in pathway 6. Each hunt hides a secret word.
Jigsaw Professional Learning Choice Board (Do: Choice board). A five-piece jigsaw. Everyone starts with the centre piece, then picks one more and shares it with the group.

LUDIA

Meet LUDIA (Think with LUDIA: Web app). Think through UDL with LUDIA for your own class, school and learners. No account is needed.
Learn About UDL with LUDIA (Think with LUDIA: Book). New to UDL? Questions educators often ask, and how to explore them with LUDIA.

Articles & Media

Articles & Media (Read: Page). Recognition, research, articles, school stories, videos and podcasts about Beth Stark's work with UDL and LUDIA.

Choice Board Designer

About the Choice Board Designer

Name Your Board

Choose 3 to 9 Activities and Resources

Order and Add What to Do

Your Board

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Choice Board Designer

About the Choice Board Designer

1Name Your Board

2Choose 3 to 9 Activities and Resources

3Order and Add What to Do

4Your Board

Name Your Board

Choose 3 to 9 Activities and Resources

Order and Add What to Do

Your Board