Name: Universal Design for Learning • In-Person
Start: 2024-11-20T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-20T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Orchard Workspace by JLL

$Universal Design for Learning \u2022 In-Person$

Learn how to reach all—yes, all!—students in your inclusive classroom by providing choice and removing barriers to learning
About this Event

Do you find yourself making lots of individualized supports for separate students? Feel like your lessons just aren't reaching some kids?

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to instruction that considers the range of learning differences from the start. In inclusive classrooms, UDL can help teachers design lessons that better reach everyone. Join us to explore the shift in mindset and tweaks to practice that can help make learning accessible to all students.

In this interactive workshop you will examine how UDL can help:

Rethink how teachers present information to students
Present students with options of how to demonstrate their learning
Provide ways students can connect and engage with the material and with one another
Learn how to remove barriers to learning
Offer meaningful choice to make learning flexible, responsive, and relevant for neurodivergent students and all kids in your classroom

Participants receive:

A certificate of completion for 5 contact hours of PD
UDL Quick Reference Guide
Materials to turn-key core learnings to colleagues
A surprise freebie to help your students (or you!) to learn, get organized, and self-regulate

The workshops provide teachers with a strengths-based lens and practical take-home strategies to make their classrooms inclusive and accessible to all students.

Workshops are limited to 20 participants to ensure participants have the materials, attention, and opportunities to interact that allow them to make this a valuable learning experience.

The location in downtown Brooklyn is accessible by many trains: 2 /3 / A / C / F / R / B / Q. Parking is also available.

About your facilitator

Aaron Lanou is an inclusive education coach working with teachers, schools, and organizations to implement strengths-based instruction and supports for autistic students and all kids with a variety of academic, executive functioning, and social support needs.

Through the lens of Universal Design for learning, Aaron works with educators to consider the kid in context, examining the environment, demands, and expectations as the starting point for helping students be successful. He specializes in helping teachers use clear and purposeful visual supports, focused graphic organizers, clarity and structure in instruction based on principles of learning and memory, and a range of executive functioning supports and other scaffolds. Committed to centering disabled perspectives, Aaron has learned from and alongside his students with disabilities and collaborates frequently with autistic colleagues and presenters.

A member of Carol Gray’s Team Social Stories, Aaron also provides Social Stories(TM) workshop and collaborates with Carol and the team to continually update and refine the Social Stories philosophy and approach.

Aaron started his career as a special education teacher and was previously Executive Director of the Nest Support Project at New York University, leading the nation’s largest inclusion program for autistic students. Aaron has presented nationally and internationally and has been adjunct faculty at Hunter College and NYU.

Find more info on Aaron's website