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

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Universal Design for Learning

Explicit Instruction & Universal Design for Learning

There’s Macaroni on your Manifold! Whenever my son Andre has the hood of his truck open doing some work, I poke my head in and say things like: “It looks like the carbonara is a ...
K.C. Knudson · May 22, 2023
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Universal Design for Learning

The Power of Good Design

Navigating Design to Meet the Needs of Learners Doors shouldn’t be hard to open, but this one was.
Matthew Green · May 16, 2021
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Universal Design for Learning

The Value of Student Variability

Harnessing Variability to Improve the Success Rate of All Students We all know that all of our students are incredibly different from one another, but there is more to variability ...
Katie Novak · November 30, 2020
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