Art for All: Planning for Variability in the Visual Arts Classroom
By Liz Byron
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In this one-of-a-kind book, artist and teacher Liz Byron demonstrates how to design lessons and instruction in the visual arts using the inclusive principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Art for All: Planning for Variability in the Visual Arts Classroom offers teachers classroom-ready advice on how to transform th
Liz Byron
Liz Byron is a practicing artist and the preK-8 visual art teacher at Gardner Pilot Academy, a full inclusion Boston (MA) public school. Liz is a Massachusetts professionally licensed teacher in visual art, special education, ESL, middle school math, and elementary education. During her career, she has taught almost every subject, working with students from preschool through graduate school.Liz earned her bachelor's degree in studio art and elementary education from Boston College. She received a master's in arts in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MEd in special education (moderate disabilities) from Lesley University.She leads various education professional development workshops and courses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Liz is continually working to enhance her instruction by applying UDL and is perpetually inspired by her students and the arts.
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Art for All - Liz Byron
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All photos are taken and copyrighted by the author except Figure 5-1, which was taken by Ms. Kat A-P and used with permission.
Cover art by Besime Shehu, 4th-grade artist at Gardner Pilot Academy, Allston, MA
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About the Author
Liz Byron is a practicing artist and the preK–8 visual art teacher at Gardner Pilot Academy, a full-inclusion Boston (MA) public school. Liz is a Massachusetts professionally licensed teacher in visual art, special education, ESL, middle school math, and elementary education. During her career, she has taught almost every subject, working with students from preschool through graduate school.
Liz earned her bachelor’s degree in studio art and elementary education from Boston College. She received a master’s in arts in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MEd in special education (moderate disabilities) from Lesley University.
She is a CAST cadre member who leads various education professional development workshops and courses on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Liz is continually working to enhance her instruction by applying UDL and is perpetually inspired by her students and the arts.
Acknowledgments
Pen to paper, fingers to keys, publish, print, show them
dyslexic writing, while wanting what Whitman yearned,
my very flesh shall be a great poem…
so you, go now re-examine all
you learned…
you the reader, first appreciated in this list
written with you at the center, educator, colleague, the artist
the student, all of us, always students.
Built with many hearts and hands
Erica Herman, eternal respect for yeses and not yets
with gratitude GPA art was planned
Parent Council, art lovers, reviews of budgets
Thank you to the families, guardians, parents,
teaching a greatest joy and learning process,
students: my purpose transparent.
Debbie O’Shea: managing middle school looks effortless
every day. Dear friend, great teacher inherent.
Thanks to the makers of Grammarly
CAST’s cast of dedicated educators
WPS teachers in the Art of Variability
You: inspiration and UDL creators
while composing this little tome, unexpected experience
Dr. Jenna C., your unmatched compassion and honesty
anchored me, no moral lassitude or variance
Sheila, your skill, our meetings, guiding attitude
thanks to all, this was composed
and the third to last word, life’s composed.
If you know, thank you for sharing yours,
you’re my bookends,
love opens doors.
Caroline, sisterhood-best friend defined,
Tom, Elise, Claire, Madeleine, and more…
Support, secure, memories, on rewind
Family is forever, for this I am grateful.
With gratitude and appreciation
to a Greater Being above
Genetics, Eternal Education, thanks Mom and Dad,
Always all my love
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Start with Goals
In 2007, I was first introduced to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in a namesake course at The Harvard Graduate School of Education while earning a master’s in Arts in Education. David Rose, the father
of UDL, taught the course. I was fresh out of undergrad and had only four semesters of student teaching under my belt. UDL seemed to be a repackaged method for good teaching.
I resisted the thought that this framework
was a neoteric way of thinking about teaching and learning. Needless to say, I earned a B+ in the course, and let’s be honest, taking into account grade inflation, a B+ is more like a D in graduate school.
Each year since then, I have grown from resisting UDL to accepting it to implementing it into every lesson. While I spent seven years teaching special education, English as a second language, and middle-school math, my passion had always been in the arts. In 2016, I was offered my dream job. My school—Gardner Pilot Academy—created a full-time visual art teaching position and I transitioned to the role.
A classroom full of smiling, seated kindergarten boys and girls who are holding up their drawings and paintings.Figure 1-1. Kindergarteners present their visual art portfolios.
I was ecstatic. I would finally get to use my undergraduate degree in studio art and my master’s in arts in education in combination with my special education experience. I would design and implement arts instruction using the UDL framework that I had spent the past 10 years learning, practicing, and teaching to my peers. I would do so in a challenging but also highly supportive environment. Gardner Pilot Academy is a full-inclusion, preK–8 public school in Boston, Massachusetts. As a full-inclusion school, we teach many students with disabilities in the general classroom who would otherwise be placed in a separate setting. In addition, more than 80% of Gardner’s 400 students are identified as high need.
Most live far below the poverty line, and many have directly experienced or witnessed trauma. A majority are English language learners, and a quarter of students have an identified disability.
This book shares what I’ve learned about using UDL to teach the visual arts. To get the most out of this book, you should already have a fundamental knowledge of UDL. You know that UDL is a framework for teaching in which the curriculum and environment are designed