Bestselling author Katie Novak is back with an engaging primer for parents that shows them how to support and advocate for learning opportunities that leverage their children’s strengths and interests.
Utilizing Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework prominently featured in the US Department of Education’s Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015, Let Them Thrive will show you the most effective strategies for supporting your children based on research and best practices in the learning sciences.
Why is this important? Because, as Katie writes in her introduction, ‘as parents, we can use all the help we can get. Parenting is exhausting, and sometimes thankless work, but it’s also the most rewarding job in the world when we get things right. Although our kids are wildly different from one another, we are all working toward the same goal: children who grow up to be happy and successful adults.’
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Different Kids, Different Sizes
Chapter 2: Turning On the Brain So It Can Learn
Chapter 3: The Value of Variability
Chapter 4: Why Choice Isn’t Just Nice, It’s Necessary
Chapter 5: What Teachers Are Up Against
Chapter 6: UDL in Action
Chapter 7: Raise Those Expectations
Chapter 8: A Call to Action
Endnotes
For Further Information
Index
Circa l’autore
Katie Novak, Ed D, is an educator and the mother of four young children. She is Assistant Superintendent of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District in Massachusetts and a leading expert on Universal Design for Learning implementation. With 15 years of experience in teaching and administration and an earned doctorate in curriculum and teaching, Novak designs and presents workshops both nationally and internationally focusing on implementation of UDL. She is the author of three other books: UDL Now, UDL in the Cloud, and Universally Designed Leadership.
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