The Education Table Blog

As educators, we hand out assignments like Vegas card dealers. When we distribute our assessments, we expect students to play a quality hand (Full House? Royal Flush?), so it’s ...

Think of UDL as a super-charged vehicle to deliver rigorous, standards-based curriculum. Today, I’d like to review the Expression Guidelines and how they will help you to teach ...

Recently, a number of teachers and administrators have asked me if UDL aligns to the Common Core. The answer is unequivocally yes. UDL is built upon principles of effective ...

One of the UDL guidelines encourages teachers to heighten the salience of goals and objectives with all students (Guideline 8.1). Although it’s scary to be transparent and share ...

This weekend, my water heater quit. One second, I was hoping for a warm shower, and the next, I was boiling water on the stove to wash my hair. My husband clambered into our dirt ...

Right now I’m watching the NFL draft and I’m a little jealous about all the fanfare. I mean, when I was waiting for a phone call after my interview at Chelmsford Public Schools ...

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is more than a way to design rigorous, engaging curriculum. It’s a philosophy. At its core, UDL encompasses the belief that if a teacher ...

Recently, I had the honor of working with the Teaching Channel to create videos on the nation’s shift to the Common Core.

Variability is the norm. People are different. Why is it then, that in traditional education, every student is taught the same way? It just doesn’t make sense, which is why every ...

Recently I worked with the Teaching Channel on a series of short videos highlighting the nation’s shift to Common Core. One video, “Sharing Common Core Language with Students,” ...