Elevating Co-teaching with Universal Design for Learning

Elevating Co-teaching with Universal Design for Learning is the silver winner of the 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in Education!

In this revised and expanded edition, Elizabeth Stein delivers a new structure, additional strategies, updated research, and fine-tuned language to show how best to apply the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and guidelines to co-teaching.

Co-teaching-the practice of having special education and regular education teachers work together in inclusive classrooms-is a powerful way to ensure that all students have equal access to academic content. The inclusive framework of UDL offers co-teachers structure and guidance in pursuing their goal to create successful learning environments for all students.

How does UDL inform the lesson-planning process? What does UDL look like in the classroom? How do you get buy-in for the UDL approach from administrators, parents, and students themselves? These and other questions are answered in this must-have book for anyone interested in co-teaching.

Author: Elizabeth Stein
Publisher: Cast, Inc.
Published: 05/16/2023
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781930583986


Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Medal Winner

About the Author
Stein, Elizabeth: - ELIZABETH STEIN, EdD, has been a special education teacher, instructional coach, and educational consultant for more than 30 years, specializing in universal design for learning (UDL) and co-taught inclusive practices. She is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, New York. Elizabeth is a renewed National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) in literacy and the author of Two Teachers in the Room: Strategies for Co-teaching Success (Routledge, 2017) and other publications.Friend, Marilyn: - Marilyn Friend, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Education in the Department of Specialized Education Services at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as department chairperson. She has spent her career as a general education and special education teacher (in Virginia and Indiana), researcher, professor, administrator, teacher educator (in Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, and North Carolina), and staff developer. Dr. Friend is a Fulbright scholar and a Past President of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). She currently resides in Washington, D.C. Dr. Friend has consulted with school professionals nationally and internationally (more than 3,500 presentations and projects in the United States, Canada, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia) as they collaborate to (a) educate diverse groups of students through co-teaching, and (b) form productive and efficient work teams, and (c) foster inclusive practices for students with disabilities. She is the author or co-author of three widely used college textbooks on special education topics; two books on co-teaching; a variety of co-teaching materials for teachers and administrators; more than 70 articles and chapters about collaboration, inclusion, and co-teaching; and a popular video series on co-teaching, effective instruction, and other inclusive practices. Her books have been translated into Danish, Mandarin, Italian, Portuguese, French, and Japanese. Dr. Friend's contributions were recognized when she was the 2016 recipient of the CEC Teacher Education Division/Pearson Excellence in Special Education Teacher Education Award. She was also named a 2019 recipient of the Indiana University School of Education Distinguished Alumni Award.