Part 5: Use It with Others

Learning UDL Together

In Part 2 you met the idea that barriers exist in the design, not the learner. The resources in this part help a team explore that idea in a staff meeting, a leadership meeting or a UDL professional learning community (PLC).

Barrier or Important Factor?

The card sort has 20 cards, ten at a time. For each card you decide: is this a barrier in the design, or an important factor about the learner? Every answer explains why.

It works on your own, or on a shared screen with your team talking through each card.

Three Starting Points

The Barrier Is in the Design: Three Starting Points has three professional learning routines. Each takes 10 to 20 minutes and needs no prior knowledge of UDL.

• We’ve All Been in This Room
• The Missing Piece
• Two Truths and a Redesign

Choose one routine, show the slides it names, and end with the Companion Table slide. The slides are a PowerPoint you can download.

Plan a Session with a Choice Board

A choice board lets each person pick what fits their time and interests. Use one that is ready, or make your own.

• The Designing to the Edges UDL Choice Board on the home page has nine activities, lettered A to I, for a staff meeting or community of practice gathering.
• The Jigsaw Professional Learning Choice Board in the Aiming for ALL Collection starts everyone on one shared piece, then each person picks one more.
• The Choice Board Designer builds a board of up to 9 squares from resources and activities on this site and up to three links of your own, with a goal or instructions for each. You can print it, save it or share it as a link.