Episode 10 - FIRM GOALS, FLEXIBLE MEANS - VARIABILITY HERE + NOW WITH KATIE NOVAK

10 is a big number -- and to celebrate our 10th episode we invited a special guest -- our very FIRST guest -- to stir things up. One name is synonymous with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The. Dr. Katie. Novak. She literally wrote the book -- 7, in fact, if you’re counting -- including the best-selling UDL Now and Innovate Inside the Box with George Couros. Pouring her expertise over our continually evolving educational environment, Katie shares her manifesto of firm goals, flexible means and how this guiding principle fuels equitable, engaging, and effective practices. Offering a sweet take on the many sour situations, Katie offers a buffet of practices that support variability and portability (aka F2F, socially distanced, remote, online, hybrid, etc) while keeping equity and empathy at the heart of learning. Katie shares so much great stuff! In fact, it was worthy of more than one episode so this is part 1 of 2. We will get part 2 out to you as soon as possible.