08/24/2026
🟠 COMING UP
📅 Thursday, September 17, 2026 | 🕐 3:30-4:30pm
🧑💻 Uncovering the Skills Behind the Skills: Literacy & UDL as Scaffolds for CTE Instruction
👤 Joy Adams – Education Consultant, Elevated Learning Design
From interpreting technical information and safety guidelines to communicating with clients, processing spoken instructions, documenting work, and collaborating with coworkers, literacy skills are essential in virtually every CTE subject area and career pathway. In this hands-on workshop, you'll apply a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to recognize the often-hidden literacy demands of CTE-specific tasks and propose ways to make those demands more accessible, explicit, and manageable for diverse learners.
Through a guided design-thinking exercise, you will examine the literacy skills embedded within a task or activity in your own CTE course. Using UDL as a lens, you will distinguish between meaningful literacy-related challenges that promote authentic learning and avoidable sources of unnecessary friction that create barriers for students. You will then consider how UDL principles can promote flexibility, clarity, and multiple pathways for participation to improve access and engagement without reducing rigor.
The UDL-informed mindset you'll develop in this workshop will enable you to identify and navigate barriers to learning in any activity — literacy-related or not! — in any CTE course or learning context.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IQ33-rvBRKS4Bs4gkC3sfw
