LACOE: Inclusive Design
February 2022 Updates from UDL_LA (Oodle-Lay)
This Month's Theme: Supporting Self-Reflection
UPDATES
In addition to our four-day workshops, LACOE-CCIL coaches have been embedding UDL within their own professional development offerings and making links to learning acceleration, special education, and math within the context of migrant education! Please see the offerings below.
Leading Learning Acceleration: Universal Design for Inclusive Literacy
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) offers a practical framework for accelerating learning by anticipating barriers and accounting for the variability of all students. After more than a year of interrupted learning, teachers will need support for designing rigorous, grade-level instruction that embeds "just-in-time support." This 4-part hybrid series will engage leaders along parallel tracks: 1) Practical implementation of Learning Acceleration guidance 2) Supporting teachers to design instruction through the lens of UDL.
Register by February 15, 2021.
Mathematics and UDL: Instructional Strategies to Provide Access for All
Intended Audience Migrant Education Administrators and K-12 Teachers
February 10, 2022
This workshop will focus on the use of Data Chats to deepen student understanding of modeling and data analysis in mathematics. The workshop incorporates an alignment of Data Chats to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines in order to provide teachers with a framework useful for ensuring instructional equity and access. Participants will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the Modeling and Data Analysis Claim, participate in and learn to facilitate a Data Chat, and reflect on the implications of the UDL guidelines for mathematics teaching and learning.
High Leverage Practices (HLPs) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
MTSS Community of Practice
Integrated Supports
We would like to invite you to join us for our upcoming Community of Practice where we will continue our focus on improving your MTSS for efficiency, efficacy, and equity by looking closely at the five domains of the MTSS framework. Our upcoming session, which will take place on Thursday, February 3rd from 1:00 to 2:30 pm we will discuss the “Integrated Supports”
LACOE Leads the Way
Chanel Young-Smith | Project Director III | Center for District Capacity Building
Our featured LACOE-CCIL coaching leader for February is Chanel Young-Smith.
Chanel leads a team of educational experts who provide technical support and assistance focused on systems change and increasing student achievement to the 80 Title I funded school districts in Los Angeles County. With her 18 years of educational experience, she currently work’s in LACOE’s Assessment Support and Monitoring Division. She has previously served under LACOE’s Student Support Services Division as well as served in Los Angeles Unified as a teacher, Dean of Students, Assistant Principal, Principal, and charter school administrator and was the recipient of the Gold Ribbon Award in 2017 for her school as a Principal.
Ms. Young-Smith received her bachelor’s in science degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and later continued her pursuit of higher learning from Antioch University- Los Angeles to earn her master’s in Education and teaching credential. She also obtained her Administrative credentials from California State Dominguez Hills and California Berkeley and an Executive Leadership in Education certification from Loyola Marymount University. Ms. Young-Smith is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in Special Education focusing her dissertation on Universal Design for Learning and the impact it has on student achievement. She can be contacted at young-smith_chanel@lacoe.edu
CONTACT US
Inclusive Design
Elise Yerkey, M. Ed.
Coordinator III
Division of Curriculum and Instructional Services
UDL Implementation Specialist
CAST and the California Coalition for Inclusive Literacy
The California Coalition for Inclusive Literacy is funded by the California Department of Education's Educator Workforce Investment Grant (EWIG) and administered in partnership with five county offices of education and CAST, Inc.--the creators of Universal Design for Learning.
Email: yerkey_elise@lacoe.edu
Website: https://ccil.cast.org/about-us
Location: 12830 Columbia Way, Downey, CA, USA
Phone: 562.922.6035
Twitter: @UDL_LA