Webinars
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Our webinars are designed to jog thinking, spark conversation, and encourage deeper learning, equipping educators and leaders with practical strategies to create more inclusive and equitable learning environments. Participants will gain tools and frameworks to drive systemic change, ensuring all learners have access to meaningful and engaging educational experiences. For your convenience, the webinar information for each topic in the four series, are linked below.
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.
Archived Webinar Series:
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 in July 2024.
Join us for an insightful webinar on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and assessment. Discover flexible, inclusive strategies for designing assessments that honor learner variability and offer multiple ways to demonstrate understanding. Ideal for educators, curriculum designers, and administrators seeking to advance equity through assessment.
Monday, October 28, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for a timely webinar on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Career and Technical Education (CTE), as educators are making considerations for recruitment, retention, and scheduling of students into CTE courses and pathways for the next school year. We will explore how UDL principles can be effectively integrated into CTE programs to support the concepts of identity and belonging as key areas of learner variability. This webinar will provide practical tools to increase agency, access, and inclusion in CTE programs.
Monday, January 27, 2025 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for a dynamic webinar on co-teaching through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Discover how UDL can enhance collaboration and support inclusive, engaging learning experiences for all students. Gain practical strategies and resources to strengthen co-teaching and ensure every learner can access and succeed in the curriculum.
Monday, March 25, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for a webinar on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its role in strengthening partnerships with families, caregivers, and communities. Explore how UDL principles can foster access, agency, and equity by honoring variability and reducing barriers. Ideal for educators, administrators, and community members seeking to build more inclusive, collaborative learning environments.
Monday, September 30, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for an enriching webinar designed to support early childhood educators in creating inclusive and engaging learning environments through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Whether you're a seasoned educator looking to enhance your inclusive teaching practices or a newcomer seeking guidance on creating accessible learning environments, this webinar offers valuable insights and resources to support your journey.
Monday, April 29, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for a dynamic webinar on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and executive function. Explore practical strategies to support goal-setting, time management, and self-regulation by embedding UDL principles into everyday instruction, empowering all students to take charge of their learning. Ideal for educators, administrators, and support staff.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join this insightful webinar on co-teaching through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Discover how to collaborate more effectively and design inclusive, engaging learning experiences that empower every student to access and succeed in the curriculum. Comments on practical strategies and ready-to-use resources for enhancing your co-teaching practice.
Monday, February 26, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Explore how leadership grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles can transform educational systems to foster equity, inclusion, and learner variability. In this engaging webinar, participants will delve into practical strategies for embedding UDL into leadership practices to design flexible, inclusive learning environments that empower both educators and students.
Monday, May 5, 2025 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for a webinar on designing accessible, inclusive, and engaging lessons through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). We will explore updated UDL guidelines, core concepts, and strategies that promote learner agency. Participants will also receive a lesson design guide and resources to support UDL-aligned planning and instruction.
Monday, February 24, 2025 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for a universally designed webinar exploring how to design math lesson through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). We’ll examine how traditional mindsets shape math teaching, revisit what makes a strong UDL-aligned goal, and practice separating goals from means. Discover ways to redesign lessons that support conceptual understanding, flexible representation, and multiple means of mathematical expression.
Monday, January 29, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
In this universally designed webinar session, we will explore some of the ways we can adopt a translanguaging stance through the lens of the framework of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). We will explore some of the variabilities that exist within the typologies of our multilingual learners, define what a translanguaging classroom is, and how to leverage translanguaging uses within the UDL framework.
Monday, November 27, 2023 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
One of the core principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework is that Barriers are in the design, not the learner. To meet the unique needs of our variable learners, the UDL framework empowers educators to identify barriers in the methods, materials, assessment, and learning environment and to design options to minimize those barriers. Join us for this free, one-hour webinar on “Designing Physical Learning Environments through the Lens of UDL.”
Monday, September 25, 2023 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Session 1: Universally Designing Social Emotional Learning to Support Learner Variability
In this session, we will explore how UDL can support the development of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making to create learning opportunities, plan for variability, and support expert learning.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Session 2: Through the Lens of UDL, Utilizing CASEL’s SEL Three Signature Practices
CASEL’s 3 Signature Practices to integrate Social Emotional Learning across all learning environments are: Welcoming/Inclusion Activities, Engaging Strategies, and Optimistic Closure.
In this webinar session, we will share simple strategies to honor what is already being done, explore ways to increase the integration of these practices, and design resources you can use the next day.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Whether you're an educator, administrator, or advocate passionate about inclusive education, this session will equip you with actionable insights to implement UDL 3.0 effectively. Join us for an enlightening session as we delve into the transformative updates of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines 3.0, tailored specifically to meet the evolving needs of educators and learners in California.
Monday, August 26, 2024 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Join us for a dynamic webinar on using the UDL Schoolwide Implementation Criteria (UDL-SIC) to guide and sustain inclusive practices. Explore how the UDL-SIC supports equity, aligns with school improvement goals, and serves as a powerful tool to improve outcomes for all learners, especially those historically underserved.
Monday, March 31, 2025 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT
Webinar Recording Coming Soon!
Join us for an engaging and informative webinar designed to guide educators in effectively utilizing the wealth of FREE resources available on the CCIL website. This session will introduce you to the tools and materials provided empowering both leaders and teachers to design inclusive and flexible learning environments for all learners. Participants will explore how to access, navigate, and integrate these resources into their practice to support diverse learners, including English learners and students with disabilities.
Monday, January 13, 2025 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT