Liz Berquist
Co-Chair
Baltimore County PSD
Baltimore, MD, USA
lizberquist@allined.com
Rene Sanchez
Co-Chair
Champlain Valley School District
Shelburne, VT, USA
rsanchez@cvsdvt.org
Keisha Smith-Carrington
Co-Chair
Princeton Public Schools
Princeton, NJ, USA
keishasmith@princetonk12.org
About Us
We are a community of educators who are committed to engaging, sustaining and deepening conversations about Universal Design for Learning, anti-racism, and intersectionality. Anti-racist practices are not limited by geographical borders. We anticipate that this SIG will bring together practitioners from many areas. This is both a local and global conversation; we have representatives from multiple continents. Each member of this SIG is charged to recognize ways to share this learning with the UDL community and engage additional UDL practitioners and reflect on how to improve UDL practices within an antiracist lens.
Why it is Important
This SIG Will
- bring together practitioners who wish to engage in critical dialogue, reflect on and discuss the shifts we have made/must make;
- observe our own conversations and interactions for examples of systematic racism within our own organizations;
- elevate examples of how we/others are addressing that racism at an individual, organizational and systemic level;
- create a collective voice within this UDL-focused community.
Our Activities
There is significant power in the UDL framework and the related process of proactively identifying barriers to design, but we recognize that the framework itself is not enough. This SIG will make space for members to critically analyze their own biases and conceptions about teaching and learning and UDL by exploring a series of topics/questions on a monthly basis. We will work toward identifying ways to share our learning with the UDL community and engage additional UDL practitioners.
Join Us!
To be added to our monthly discussions, please contact Liz Berquist.
Meeting Schedule
March 10th, 2022
3:45 – 5:00pm ET
April 26th, 2022
3:45 – 5:00pm ET
May 12th, 2022
3:45 – 5:00pm ET
June 9th, 2022
3:45 – 5:00pm ET