The School 2.0 eToolkit is designed to help schools, districts, and communities develop a common education vision and explore how that vision can be supported by technology.
UDL Spotlight aims to
* Recognize and celebrate implementations of UDL features -whether or not they are called by the UDL name
* Educate web visitors about UDL by making explicit connections between the featured work and the UDL Guidelines-Version 1.0
* Stimulate conversation* about what constitutes "best practices."
* Foster new UDL-based relationships, partnerships, and innovations
Each featured Spotlight illustrates some of the CAST UDL Guidelines. Taken as a group, the Spotlights build a vision for a future of learning environments that are truly universal.
This new approach,
comprehensive school reform, takes an integrated view
of the reform process. It is based on the concept that the
way to successfully improve school performance is to
simultaneously change all elements of a school's operating
environment so as to bring each element into alignment with a
central, guiding vision.
The success of comprehensive school reform depends on careful
planning of school and district resource commitments. Unlike
traditional reform efforts, comprehensive reform is not
easily funded through a small increase in a school's
operating budget.
Public schools exist, or should exist, solely to prepare all
students to become independent, self-sufficient adults and helping them develop
particular knowledge and skills.
School system leaders' effectiveness depends on their skill
to inspire, mobilize, and support front-line practitioners. Their vision is
shaped not by the latest education trends, but by a simple resolve that the
school system must work to the maximum demonstrable benefit of all children.
Leaders, on the other hand, define their roles as pursuing an aggressive agenda
to raise levels of educator and student performance.