A Tree for All: Your Coloring Book of UDL Principles and Practice

By Loui Lord Nelson and Allison Posey

While conducting training on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for an international audience of educators, Loui Lord Nelson began employing the simple image of a tree using its roots and branches to express the entire UDL ecosystem.

The metaphor of the tree helped "minimize the language barrier" in a global setting, writes Ne

• Language: English
• Publisher: CAST, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781930583153

Loui Lord Nelson

Loui Lord Nelson is an international educational consultant on Universal Design for Learning. She is the author of the bestseller Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning (Brookes) and coauthor (with Patti Ralabate) of Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners: The UDL Approach (CAST).

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CAST Professional Publishing

an imprint of CAST, Inc.

Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA

Printed in the United States of America

Cover and interior design by Happenstance Type-O-Rama

To Marleen. Your passion for UDL benefits those in Belgium, throughout Europe, and beyond. Here’s to your verve and tenacity.

Acknowledgments

The information in this book comes in two equally important forms: text and illustrations. Once again, as she did for my book Design and Deliver, Allison Posey took my words and basic drawings and created beautifully simple but intricate images that convey exactly what I was seeing in my head. She’s a mind reader, and deeply knowledgeable about UDL. I am grateful for her willingness to be my sounding board and to explore a variety of styles and images as we cocreated the illustrations for this book. Thank you, Allison. I look forward to many, many more walks, my dear friend.

Thank you, too, to David Gordon of CAST for encouraging me to get this idea onto paper and for your eagle-eyed editing. I can’t imagine taking the crazy idea of a coloring book about UDL to any other publisher. You made that decision easy because you further the mission of CAST by making UDL come alive via CAST Publishing. That is a gift to both authors and readers.

Finally, thanks to my parents, sister, and husband for their never-ending support.

An illustration of three students in a classroom in front of a teacher at a black board. The students are thinking: I’m ready to learn!, How does it all connect?, and Ack! Theory! The teacher is writing: Today’s PD: Universal Design for Learning: The Framework.

The Why

When educators learn about the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework for the first time, or even when they have known about the framework for a