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.

Multilingual learner utilizing UDL practices in school
Variability and Barriers

3 Ways to Support Multilingual Learners With UDL

One of the million reasons I love Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is that it helps teachers provide the tools to help all learners learn - whether a learner has the highest ...
Novak Education · January 15, 2023
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good door design - norman door
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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Reflection
Universal Design for Learning

Life and UDL

Reflection. Something we do as educators on a regular basis to ensure our students achieve success. This is also something that many of us will do for years to come as we think ...
Kristin Fox · April 18, 2021
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UDL for Remote Learning
Universal Design for Learning

Why UDL is Necessary for Remote Learning

If our systems have any chance of supporting students with remote learning, they have to use the principles of Universal Design to ensure that every student, regardless of ...
Katie Novak · February 2, 2021
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diversity
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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tiger in classroom
Science of Learning

Reducing the “Tigers” in our Classrooms

How to Stop the Fight or Flight Response and Help Students Escape the “Tigers” in the Classroom. Do you remember having that feeling of dread in school, perhaps it was when you ...
Allison Posey · November 24, 2020
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Special Education

The Danger of Erasing Disability

“Come the glorious day when all barriers went… y’know…. We’d just be people with impairments; we wouldn’t be disabled people anymore.” ~Laurence Clark
Eric Moore · September 5, 2019
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