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.

Choice boards graphic (showing screens, videos, audio, graphs, notebooks
Universal Design for Learning

Taking Your Choice Boards to the Next Level

A UDL practitioner believes in the power of teaching and learning. As instructional designers and facilitators, we have the incredible opportunity to create a culture of high ...
Katie Novak · December 6, 2022
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9 Inspirational UDL Quotes for Educators

UDL is an educational framework based on decades of neuroscience research and is endorsed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This framework is considered best practice for ...
Katie Novak · December 4, 2022
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Career readiness with UDL
Universal Design for Learning

Preparing Students for Tomorrow With UDL

How UDL prepares students with the necessary skills needed to build job skills for the future. Back in the fall of 2020 as schools faced the daunting task of restarting school ...
K.C. Knudson · October 18, 2022
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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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Students in science class - Inequity in STEM - and Solutions for Making STEM Equitable in K-12
Inclusive Practices

Solutions for Making STEM Equitable in K-12

According to a 2017 Pew Research Study, not only does there exist a racial and ethnic disparity between high school students who are fond of STEM subjects, but there is also a ...
Andy Laverne · September 12, 2022
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