Inclusive Education

This article highlights the purpose of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), what it looks like in the classroom, and the principles of UDL that emphasize learner variability. It also looks at how families can support student learning through UDL.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a core component of inclusive education in New Zealand. The Ministry of Education encourages the use of the UDL framework to create more inclusive and flexible learning environments.

This video features Kia Aroha, a college in Auckland, New Zealand using aspects of Māori culture as a teaching or learning method. Their curriculum focuses on a critical analysis of the historical and present realities that affect students' lives.

This article introduces teachers to culturally sustaining practices (CSP). It explains the what, why, and how of CSP.

This article by Nancy Chick provides an overview of metacognition and putting it into practice. She shares how to develop a classroom grounded in metacognition and stresses the importance of explicit instruction.

Teachers from Karori Normal School in New Zealand share how they used space as a way to give students different options as to where they work. They also discuss how they used Universal Design for Learning when lesson planning.