[Access Lunch] Panel on Universal Design for Learning, Thu 9/3 2 P ET

[Cynthia Bennett]

Hi Everyone,

HCII's Accessibility Seminar is excited to welcome a panel of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) experts this week! We especially encourage all instructors to attend to learn accessible teaching techniques. COVID has quickly transformed how education is delivered and has amplified the need for accessibility to be built into our practices and pedagogies. However, even pre-pandemic, research has shown that most students who need them do not request accommodations, but thoughtfully practiced UDL can decrease the burden of making specialized requests and improve all students' experiences in the classroom. If resources are proliferating, getting started with UDL can be difficult. These experts will provide an overview of UDL and offer suggestions for how you can make your instruction more accessible for everyone.


  *   When: Thursday, September 3 from 2 to 3 PM Eastern Time.
  *   Where: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94637562700#success

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Panelist Bios


Brianna Blaser is a Counselor/Coordinator at DO-IT Center at the University of Washington (UW), where she works to increase the participation of people with disabilities in STEM education and careers. As project manager for the National Science Foundation-funded projects AccessComputing and AccessCSforAll, much of her work focuses on computing education and careers. Brianna advises and mentors students and works with faculty, employers, and other stakeholders to create institutional change. Previously, Brianna was Project Director of Outreach for AAAS where she developed career and professional development workshops. Brianna earned a BS in math and psychology from Carnegie Mellon and a PhD in Women's Studies at UW with a focus on women in STEM.


Meg Ray is a freelance computer science (CS) education consultant and researcher and adjunct professor of education. Her goal is to equip teachers at all levels to grow their equitable teaching practices, especially related to Universal Design for Learning. She acts as a coach developer in her advisory role for K-12 Education at Cornell Tech, where she was the founding Teacher in Residence. She teaches CS education methods courses at NYU and is consulting on the development of a new NSF-supported, dual-license special education & computer science masters of education program there. She teaches online special education courses at Hunter where she models a UDL approach to higher education courses. Meg's research focus is on teacher development and infusing UDL into CS education. She is working to develop clinical digital simulation scenarios focused on equity issues in the classroom as a second year ASPIRE CS-AI Fellow through MIT's Teaching Systems Lab and Carnegie Mellon. Meg has worked on national and state standards for computer science education. she is a Python Software Foundation grantee for Python in education and the author of the intro to programming book Code this Game!

Sara Schley is Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Director at the Research Center for Teaching and Learning at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and an award-winning post-secondary teacher. She researches and trains faculty to implement Universal Design for Learning  and Deaf education into their pedagogy and practice. She centers Deaf and disabled student perspectives in her evaluations of pedagogy and also works to raise participation of Deaf and disabled scholars in the academy.

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