Time is an educator's kryptonite! The Got a Minute? Learning Series recognizes this challenge and provides educators with the flexibility to choose their learning pathway based on the amount of time they have available.
The series is designed around chunks of time. Each module is divided into three chunks:
10 minutes of learning - the what and the why
20 minutes of learning - the how
45 minutes of learning - the application
The overall goals of the Got a Minute? Learning Series are to:
Deepen understanding of inclusive practices and strategies
Explore best practices to support all learners
Apply learning by designing or revising a product to support all learners
Below you will find two series: Inclusive Literacy and Through the Lens of UDL. Both may be used by individual educators, a group of colleagues, or school teams as the same content is provided in both Google Slides and online course options.
Editor's Note: These topics are arranged alphabetically to make them easier to find.
Designed during the California Coalition for Inclusive Learning Grant (CCIL 2.0: Inclusive Learning Beyond the Classroom) 2023-2025.
Editor's Note: These topics are arranged in a suggested progression, but feel free to explore them in any order that best supports your learning goals.
Designed during the California Coalition for Inclusive Literacy Grant (CCIL 1.0) 2020-2023, prior to the updated UDL Guidelines 3.0 Update in July 2024.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Explore Career Technical Education (CTE) from a student’s perspective and reflect on how access to CTE might have shaped your own career choices and readiness.
Explore how CTE and UDL align, and examine practical examples to guide inclusive and engaging lesson design.
Design or redesign a learning experience that supports CTE pathways and career readiness by applying the UDL framework to foster access, engagement, and real-world relevance.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Career Technical Education (CTE) This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Career Technical Education (CTE) The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on Co-Teaching and its possible implications to educator practice and student learning.
Explore the intersection between Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Co-Teaching.
Design or redesign a learning experience to support learners through a co-teaching model(s).
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Co-Teaching This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Co-Teaching The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on how educators might partner with families to support students’ with exceptional needs.
Explore how the goal of UDL of fostering learner agency is supported by leveraging community partnerships.
Design or Redesign a learning experience that support learners by establishing a partnership with families and members of the school community.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Family and Community Partnerships This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Family and Community Partnerships The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Designing Early Childhood classrooms using the UDL Guidelines to increase access and options for learner agency.
Explore how educators design early childhood classrooms to develop learner agency and access.
Apply your learning to designing an early childhood lesson or unit using the UDL Guidelines.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Early Childhood Education This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Early Childhood Education The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of what executive function is and its importance.
Examine how to support learners develop their executive function through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Design or redesign a learning experience to support the development of executive function.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Building Executive Function This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Building Executive Function The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of what are foundational reading skills and the role that the Active View of Reading plays.
Explore how to utilize UDL to design for foundational literacy skills. .
Design or redesign a learning experience with UDL to support learners with explicit reading instruction.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Foundational Skills This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Foundational Skills The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on the school experiences of two multilingual learners and the barriers they are facing in their school system.
Learn steps to support the UDL implementation process and identify barriers that exist across systems.
Use an UDL lens to explore the ways in which the current systems in place are serving students.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Leadership This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Leadership The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on how executive function skills impacted you or your students as learners.
Explore how to design opportunities that support executive function through the lens of UDL.
Use the lesson design protocol as a tool to design a lesson that support executive function.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Lesson Design This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Lesson Design The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Explore how leveraging multiple representations in mathematics supports conceptual understanding.
Explore to engage students in a math tasks that incorporates multiple representations.
Design or redesign a learning experience to support learners through concrete, visual, and abstract ways.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Math This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Math The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on your own journey as a learner and educator.
Explore how educators can design learning experiences to support learner agency and access.
Apply your learning to designing a lesson or unit using the UDL Guidelines.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Multilingual Learners This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Multilingual Learners The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on the role the physical learning environments play in learning.
Explore how to utilize UDL to design physical learning environments.
Design or redesign a physical learning environment to minimize barriers to learning.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Physical Learning Environment This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Physical Learning Environment The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on the role Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) plays in learning.
Explore the relationship between UDL and SEL.
Design or redesign a learning experience through the SEL & UDL lens.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Social and Emotional Learning This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Social and Emotional Learning The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on how identity and perspective was included in a learning environment and its impact on your learning experiences and educator practices.
Explore the guidelines for representation and consider ways to include more options for students that are inclusive of their identities and perspectives.
Design or redesign a learning experience that support learners by leveraging their diverse identities and perspectives.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: UDL Guidelines 3.0 This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: UDL Guidelines 3.0 The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on a time you implemented a new program or practice within your school system and the UDL School Implementation Criteria (UDL-SIC).
Explore how the UDL School Implementation Criteria can support with a problem of practice across a system.
Design or redesign a system to address a current problem of practice in your context.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: UDL School Implementation Criteria (UDL-SIC) This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: UDL School Implementation Criteria (UDL-SIC) The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Understand how beliefs and attitudes about learning and ability can block growth and progress
Explore how reframing barriers using a growth mindset can change the way students think about themselves and learning
Practice using language to help shift thinking regarding barriers to learning and student abilities and potential for growth
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Mindset This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Mindset The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of the importance of goal setting
Examine how to craft and communicate clear goals
Explore how to design goals that are flexible without the means embedded
Design or redesign a learning goal to be clear, relevant, and rigorous
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Goal-Setting This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Goal-Setting The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Identify potential barriers to student engagement
Recognize symptoms of disengagement
Consider and design engagement strategies to minimize barriers
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Barriers This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Barriers The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Reflect on the role of options in designing learning experiences
Explore the ways options are designed to minimize barriers
Design or redesign a lesson to include options for learners
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Options This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Options The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of the habits and practices of an expert learner
Explore how educators can design to support the development of expert learners
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Expert Learning This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Expert Learning The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of the purpose of formative and summative assessment
Explore construct relevance and its impact on assessments
Design or revise a literacy assessment
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Assessment This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Assessment The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of the role of self-reflection in the thinking process.
Explore how educators design to support self-reflection during the learning process.
Design or redesign a learning experience to support the self-reflection process.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Self-Reflection This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Self-Reflection The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of what being literate entails and of the expanded definition of texts.
Explore how to utilize the Claims, Evidence, Reasoning model to support literacy across content areas.
Design or redesign a learning experience to support learners in crafting an argument using the Claims, Evidence, Reasoning model.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Literacy Across Disciplines This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Literacy Across Disciplines The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen understanding of meaning making and what expert “meaning makers” do.
Explore the strategy of Think Aloud to support meaning making.
Design or redesign a learning experience with a Think Aloud to support meaning making.
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Meaning Making This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Meaning Making The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.
Participants will have an opportunity to:
Deepen their understanding of the overlapping practices to support writing across the disciplines
Explore deconstructing rubrics to prepare students to write for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences
Examine a single-point rubric to provide meaningful and actionable feedback to students
Choose how to engage with the course materials:
Google Slides: Writing This format is suggested for groups of colleagues or school teams who engage with the content collaboratively.
Online Course: Writing The online course includes the same content as the Google Slides with some additional interactive features to engage individual learners.