Supporting the Needs of All Students

A great deal is asked of teachers and the demands seem only to increase. Faced with widening student learning profiles, teachers are pressed to continuously expand their toolbox to differentiate instruction to meet those needs. And as schools work to get better at supporting the diverse identities and cultures of their students, teachers are feeling an urgent need to develop their cultural competency in choosing content and pedagogy. To be clear, teachers want to support the full range of needs of their students, but are faced with multiple demands, and not enough time. Part of the struggle is the time required to design separate elements for each of the various needs in the classroom. Here is where Universal Design for Learning comes in. UDL is an overarching approach to planning lessons that can flex to meet the diverse needs of your students. Join this webinar to learn how Universal Design can support your lesson design process to meet a wider range of student cognitive profiles and respond more effectively to students’ cultural perspectives.

Registration Information

• Free for participants from SAIS member schools
• $25 for participants from non-member schools

Please contact learn@sais.org with any questions.

Speaker

Allen Broyles
Managing Director, MehtaCognition

Bio

Allen Broyles is an experienced senior leader and educator with a proven track record of designing and building innovative schools, initiatives, and programs that foster competency-based learning, equity and inclusion, and data-driven decision-making. Allen has presented and consulted at numerous regional, national, and international conferences and schools on the topics of applying neuroscience to teaching and learning; differentiation; executive functions; and diversity, equity and inclusion. Allen is a faculty member of NAIS’s Diversity Leadership Institute, has served on the national board of directors for the Learning Disabilities Association of America, and is a faculty member of the Institute for New Teachers at SAIS. Prior to his role at MehtaCognition, Allen held several senior leadership positions in schools, including assistant head of school at The Children’s School in Atlanta, assistant head of school of The Howard School in Atlanta, and founding director of The Howard Institute in Atlanta.

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