G-D first takeaways

Katie began the day with some numbers for her district.  They are universally designing learning for students and the numbers show their work is paying off for everyone!

She recommended finding the schools/districts who are comparable to us, demographically and economically and similar size, to compare growth over time.


As many already know, Choice is a good place to start with UDL...

There is an important difference between "doing a project" and
"Project Based Learning"

SOME SHIFTS:  

• from teacher delivering lessons using many modes, to allowing students to choose their mode of learning.  
• explicitly stated this is a shift from teacher centered instruction to workshop model- it occured to several of us that (although it may seem obvious in many ways) we had never quite realized this so clearly until we witnessed it in action across classrooms, subjects and grades.

The following are examples of what teachers had on smart board for activities in different classrooms

Third grade reading block...  students were using a variety of seating, and a variety of tools, including two different graphic organizers for those writing a "note".  Some students were recording their video response on flipgrid, some were using their computer to write their response or to read or listen to book, or mystery science..

These were examples of Station tasks from the UDL/Math talk with Karen Gartland author of several books around teaching math.  Stations as we witnessed were not a timed rotation style, there might be have to, then choose to do options.

Kids were to choose a study method and begin studying.  Some were working in partners, some independent, small groups. 

Kindergarteners spin the spinner to find a
choice activity (afternoon choices, all number related, practice writing, counting, saying number poems...  None of the activities were worksheets

Each of the following was a choice center in afternoon kindergarten, they were all math/ counting/ number name or formation activites.