INSIGHTS & IDEAS

The Education Table Blog

Practical strategies, research, and perspectives from the Novak Education team to help educators strengthen instruction, leadership, and inclusive systems.

an image of a Kaleidoscope - analogy for brain-based design in education
Science of Learning

A Brain-Based Pattern for Design

When you point a kaleidoscope toward light, the light reflects back and forth and creates intricate and complex patterns. In these patterns, we see beauty. As leaders, we too are expected ...
K.C. Knudson · May 30, 2025
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Career readiness with UDL
Universal Design for Learning

Universally Designing for the Future

How UDL prepares students with the necessary skills needed for tomorrow’s workforce. Back in the fall of 2020 as schools faced the daunting task of restarting school under the ...
K.C. Knudson · October 18, 2022
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three prong fork
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

What Do We Really Mean by Social Emotional Learning?

Can you pass me a threek? When my nephew Jake was a small boy sitting at the kitchen table he asked his mom to pass him a “threek”. She said, “A threek? What is a threek?” He ...
K.C. Knudson · October 11, 2022
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one-size-fits-all education doesn't work
Universal Design for Learning

UDL Vs. One-Size-Fits-All? Analogy + Video Resource

You might kind of know the definition of Universal Design of Learning (see here) or you might fully grasp the UDL framework but have trouble explaining it to your students or ...
K.C. Knudson · September 16, 2022
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Building stairs - universal design
Universal Design for Learning

Inclusive Design is Beautiful Design

Now, about those stairs... Look at the picture above. You may think - what a beautiful building with a stunning entrance. But if you look closer, you’ll see that this entrance has ...
K.C. Knudson · March 18, 2021
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