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NERCOMP CLASS (Collaborate, Listen, Accelerate, Share, and Support): Applying Universal Design For Learning (UDL) In Teaching and Learning Work
Where: Online/Virtual
When: Thursdays, May 22, May 29, June 12 & June 26, 2025
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Note: This registration includes all sessions
Workshop Organizer: Carly Lesoski of Dartmouth College
Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: $225
Non-Member: $325
Event Overview
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) isn’t just for the classroom—it’s a powerful framework for creating more accessible, inclusive, and effective teaching and learning environments. This interactive session will explore CAST’s UDL 3.0 Guidelines and how they can be applied beyond instruction to enhance educational technologies, faculty consultations, program development, and team processes. Whether you're new to UDL or looking to deepen your expertise, you'll leave with practical strategies to break down barriers and improve accessibility in your professional work.
Attendees will receive a UDL digital credential upon completion of all requirements.
Session Outcomes
By the end of the CLASS, participants will:
- Analyze & Apply UDL Principles – Explore key UDL concepts and assess their impact across teaching and learning contexts.
- Develop Practical UDL Strategies – Experiment with UDL-based approaches to improve accessibility in your own work.
- Create an Action Plan – Design a tailored implementation plan for UDL in one of four focus areas: educational technologies, faculty/course design, programming/resources, or team systems.
- Engage in Peer Review & Reflection – Collaborate with colleagues to refine strategies and document insights through a structured review process.
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Accessibility
NERCOMP strives to make its online offerings and in-person workshops accessible to all registrants. Please contact us should you have an accessibility need. We've worked to provide resources that are accessible to as many people as possible, and if you encounter any issues while attending our events, please contact us at accessibility@nercomp.org or at 860-345-2081 to request assistance.
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May 22, 2025
Session 1: Understanding the UDL Guidelines
Session Learning Objective: Explore and analyze Universal Design for Learning principles
● Pre-work (prior to session)
○ Survey to get to know participants
○ Excerpts from UDL Workbook
● Individual exploration and group discussions of UDL 3.0 Guidelines
● Creating awareness about where you are in their UDL journey and reflect about how
UDL connects to your work
May 29, 2025
Session 2: Using UDL to Address Barriers in Teaching and Learning Work
Session Learning Objective: Discuss common barriers in teaching and learning work and ideate UDL strategies to address identified barriers
● Discuss example barriers in the areas of educational technologies, faculty consultations
and course design, programming and resource development, and team processes and
systems
● Determine barriers that appear in your own professional contexts
● Identify 1-2 barriers you would like to address using UDL
June 12, 2025
Session 3: Designing and Refining UDL Implementation Strategies
Session Learning Objective: Experiment with UDL strategies to address barriers faced in teaching and learning work
● Report on individual barriers and strategies you'd like to try
● Scaffolded design thinking activities to better address your chosen barrier(s) with UDL
strategies and plan for implementing those strategies in your work
June 26, 2025
Session 4: Exploring our Collaborative UDL Toolkit
Session Learning Objective: Contribute to a collaborative casebook of concrete strategies and provide feedback on other participants’ work
● Pre-work
○ Submit narrative report
● Virtual gallery
○ Participants visit each others’ “exhibits” and leave feedback
● CLASS takeaways
María José (Majo) Brito Páez
María José (Majo) Brito Páez (she/her) is a Learning Designer in the Learning Design and Innovation (LDI) team at Dartmouth College. Majo is committed to promoting inclusive and accessible learning design in higher education, with a focus on elevating and celebrating learner diversity. Being a neurodivergent third-culture kid, her interests vary extensively but have most recently involved hiking, petting strangers’ dogs, and perfecting her grilled cheese sandwiches.
Courtney A. Floyd
Courtney A. Floyd (she/her) is a Learning Designer at Dartmouth College. She is a neurodivergent, first-generation PhD in English with a background in Critical Disability Studies and College Writing. When she’s not supporting inclusive and accessible design, Courtney writes speculative fiction and enjoys long hikes with her dogs in the New England woods.
Carly M. Lesoski
Carly M. Lesoski (they/she) is the Learning Innovation Program Manager at Dartmouth’s Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), where they coordinate the Accessible Dartmouth Initiative. As a disabled and neurodivergent queer person, they are passionate about accessibility, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and creating inclusive learning environments that bring learners and instructors into a community where knowledge co-creation can take place. Outside of her work, she is a parent to two wild children, one chaotic orange cat and one sweet black kitty. They enjoy embroidery, cross stitching, crocheting, and sewing.
Rebecca Taub
Rebecca Taub (she/her) is the Associate Director, Learning Design at Dartmouth College. She fosters teaching and learning environments that respect cultural diversity and individuality. Guided by human-centered values rooted in diversity, equity, inclusion, access, belonging, and justice, she strives to improve herself and her work as a designer, educator, learner, wife, mother, friend, community member, daughter, and sister.