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| A PD Model Using UDL Principles to Create a 21st Century Classroom This session is designed to help get your staff up and running using UDL principles within all classrooms of your building. Participants will be presented with a plan that they can modify and adapt to meet the needs of their school to increase student achievement. They will learn how to implement Professional Development sessions effectively to increase teacher’s comfort level with technology. |
Amy Shoemaker, Nancy Lindsay,Amanda Prewitt, Jerry Sipes & Paula Young | WMV | PowerPoint slides | Approx. 40 minutes |
| Tools for Successful Transition This session will provide participants with an overview of why transition planning for youth moving from high school to post school settings is so important. Information about federal and state transition planning requirements, and how they work together, will be presented. | Dr. Beth Harrison | WMV | PowerPoint slides | Approx. 42 minutes |
| Effective Collaboration within All Disciplines Presenter will discuss how to collaborate effectively across all disciplines to improve retention and understanding of all students. The presenter will also demonstrate how they have worked together to connect science and history to relevant concepts. Participants will learn how to organize, select, and design instruction collaboratively that will maintain the focus of standards, core content, and develop student outcomes. The program will emphasize the prioritization of curriculum and planning that focuses on a culminating event. |
Matthew Hayes & Brent Weedman | WMV | PowerPoint slides | Approx. 45 minutes |
| Universal Design for Learning: Supporting Systemic Change Presenters will illustrate a “best practices” scenario for fostering change throughout the school and district. Presenters will talk about what has worked for them and what they have struggled with. Participants will leave with ideas they can immediately implement to start a ground roots UDL movement in their schools/districts. | Terry Yates, Roni Gilpin & Bobbie Crace | WMV | PowerPoint Slides | Approx. 46 minutes |
| Changing the Culture of Collaboration in Your School Is everyone on board with the concept of “collaboration” in your school? Take a trip with these presenters, who have made the journey in changing the culture of collaboration within their school. Explore the “bumps in the road” as well as the “construction of the smooth places” that made collaboration something that people now embrace. |
Malinda Brooks & Kim Pommier | WMV | PowerPoint slides | Approx. 41 minutes |
| Leadership and Sustainability: Building Initiative Vision, Values, and Longevity for Implementation This session will provide a framework for guiding your staff and their decision-making about incorporating and embracing the concepts of Universal Design for Learning. These concepts also influence the instructional practice and student achievement. |
Toyah Robey | WMV | PowerPoint slides | Approx. 55 minutes |
| Lessons Learned about Virtual Worlds for Learning Many educators are excited about the potential for education of virtual worlds (Internet game-spaces such as Whyville, digital places like Second Life). Our work with the NSF-funded River City curriculum for middle school science has provided insights about which types of virtual worlds are powerful for learning, as well as the limits of these interactive media. This session will provide advice about how to design learning experiences that take advantage of the full educational power of virtual worlds to reach underperforming and non-traditional students. |
Dr. Christopher Dede | WMV | PowerPoint slides & video | Approx. 60 minutes |
| UDL & RTI: The Intersection A look at UDL in some detail and ideas as to how, when and why UDL should play a role in RTI plans to improve educational outcomes for ALL students. We will also discuss how Universally Designing your General Education Curricula can help to eliminate or reduce the need for intervention. | Daniel McNulty | WMV | Handout | Approx. 56 minutes |
| Differentiating Instruction: Universal Ways to Unlock Learning The session will explore the key principles of Differentiated Instruction within the context of the literary work "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry. The principles will be illustrated through design, planning, and delivery of content in the general classroom setting. |
Tricia Bronger | WMV | PowerPoint slides and other resources | Approx. 60 minutes |
| School 2.0: Using Collaborative Technology Tools to Enhance Teacher Practice and Increase Student Success New web-based technologies are revolutionizing the manner in which communication and business is conducted around the world. Students are deeply engaged with Web 2.0 tools such (Facebook, MySpace, Webkins, blogs, etc.) to communicate, collaborate, share and gather information, and express their creativity. These are the very skills that educators champion as essential for student success. A growing number of teachers are using these same tools to enhance their own pedagogical practice and engage students in ways that are exciting, meaningful and relevant. This presentation will address some of the most useful tools available to educators and demonstrate how these tools can improve teacher collaboration and instructional practice. | Dr. David Quinn | WMV | PowerPoint Slides | Approx. 54 minutes |
| The Missing Piece of the Proficiency Puzzle:
Recommendations for Involving Families and Communities to Improve Student Achievement Learn about a new innovative tool that schools, families, and community groups can use to work together to improve the academic outcomes of all their students. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using it in a hands-on activity. The Family and Community Involvement Guide to Student Achievement has been widely embraced by all groups who have seen it. |
Carol Edelen | WMV | PowerPoint slides | Approx. 47 minutes |
| Edusim: 3D Virtual World Lessons on the Classrooom Interactive Whiteboard This session will explore the Edusim concept of lesson driven 3D virtual worlds on the classroom interactive whiteboard. Lesson examples, as well as current and future Edusim capabilities, will be demonstrated and discussed. |
Deonna White | WMV | Presentation Weblink | Approx. 38 minutes |
| Building Stronger Student-Teacher Relationships Using a Tablet PC and Instant Messaging | Amy Cox | WMV | PowerPoint slides | 71 minutes |
| Creating Universally Designed Lesson Plans | Diana Fortney and Travis Hacker | WMV | PowerPoint slides | 39 minutes |
| Effective Integration of Math and Technology for Student Achievement | Krista Althauser and Tina Barrett | WMV | PowerPoint slides Handouts |
73 minutes |
| eInstruction CPS System | Matt Wheeler | QuickTime** | NA | 50 minutes |
| Instructional Content & Digital Rights Management: The Role of DRM in Kentucky Schools | Barbara Kinney and Linnie Lee | WMV | PowerPoint slides | 49 minutes |
| Response to Intervention: Roles and Implications for Educators, Part 1 | Dr. Michael Abell | WMV | PowerPoint slides | 48 minutes |
| Response to Intervention: Roles and Implications for Educators, Part 2 | Dr. Kevin Buehler, interviewed by Dr. Michael Abell | PPT* | NA | 43 minutes |
** Due to the size of this file, it has been uploaded to a file sharing site. Clicking this link will take you to that site, where you can download the video.
The following videos (created by unaffiliated entities) fit with the aims of the Center for Innovation and Instruction for Diverse Learners and are used with permission:
Best Practices through Universal Design for Learning (13 minutes) - created by the ACCESS Project at Colorado State University (ACCESS to Postsecondary Education through Universal Design for Learning)
Reaching Every Student in Science K-8: UDL Approach (5 minutes) - created by the Access Center (Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8)
Framework for UDL (3 minutes) - created by the Access Center (Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8)
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