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NCAC: Research & Solutions: Students Make Progress with UDL: General Education and Special Education Associations: Resources and Professional Development Opportunities That Increase Curriculum Access

Resources and Professional Development Opportunities That Increase Curriculum Access

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NCAC and CAST offer teachers a colorful array of guidance and various ideas that implement universally designed instruction. By increasing access with universally designed instruction, teachers become more inclusive so that all children have meaningful learning opportunities.

Check out the Web features on reading, poetry and literacy; CAST's eText Spider; and the new Universal Learning Center. Join the National Consortium on Universal Design for Learning to get connected with other teachers who are working for curriculum access.

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NCAC Web Features offers information about UDL and gives teachers pre-screened links to digital text that can aid instruction and save teachers' time.

• Leap for Literacy in The Digital Age: Celebrate International Literacy Day with NCAC (September 2001)
• Party for Poetry!: E-Text Can Extend Poetry's Reach to More Young People (April 2001)
• Oh, the Places You'll Go: A Brief Adventure Exploring E-Text and Universally Designed Instruction (March 2001)

E-text locator: The CAST eText Spider helps you locate electronic materials. Enter a search string and a field to search on the form provided. Press the "Search" button. The eText Spider will then pass that search term to the various on-line libraries and display the results.

The Universal Learning Center (ULC) is a new activity at CAST for eligible teachers. The ULC opens in 2001 with thousands of digital curricular materials that cross the curriculum. Electronic materials with learning supports are helping students with and without learning, sensory, and physical disabilities to achieve higher standards in general education classrooms.

• Universal Learning Center Will Create a Digital Foundation for UDL: Log onto the CAST Web site to learn what a UDL teacher is doing to meet state standards by replacing outdated materials with digital text and learning supports that meet the individual differences of her students
• Universal Learning Center (ULC): Sign up today. The ULC will offer access to thousands of digital curricular materials for students with learning, sensory and physical disabilities -resources that may help them achieve higher standards in general education classrooms.
• TEC article (coming soon)

National Consortium on Universal Design for Learning is a community of educators, connected virtually, as an activity of CAST and NCAC that seeks to advance the understanding and practice of UDL. Sign on and learn more about promising instructional strategies, curricula, technology, research, and tools. Learn what is happening in Consortium classrooms.