[Simtrainer-l] Alignment of CER's with Universal Design

[Kathy Spielman]

Hello SIM Educators,
I am consulting at a private school for students with diagnosed dyslexia
and other language-based learning disabilities and am looking for articles
and charts that show how the CER's and specifically Course Organizers align
and support the Universal Design approach.

A little background on this school:
Over the last 20 years, the faculty has been trained in the Course
Organizer and Unit Organizer routines, and, in recent years, every
department developed and implemented a CO for each course and was working
on implementing UO's for each course. Two years ago, the faculty began
training in Universal Design, and the trainer remarked that the CO's do not
align with Universal Design. This year, the Curriculum Director who
coordinated the SIM training workshops in the past and was successful in
the school-wide implementation of CO's is no longer at the school. Going
back even farther - I was employed as a teacher and administrator at this
school from 1985 to 2021 and began using SIM with the teachers in the
1990's.  Currently, most of the staff is trained in and uses the
Paraphrasing Strategy and the Sentence Writing Strategies; this year, as a
consultant, I will continue to work with department heads in the high
school to train and further implement these two LS's with new teachers and
the entire high school faculty. (I trained the entire faculty, from grades
2 - 12, in Sentence Writing (Fundamentals) and Fundamentals of Paraphrasing
in 2021, and the new faculty in Sentence Writing (Proficiency) and RAP in
2021 and 2022.)

Thank you for your assistance and any ideas/experiences you can share
with me!
Kathy

*Kathy Spielman*
SIM Learning Strategies Professional Developer
pronouns: she/her
Teaching Beyond Limits
818-314-9389
spielmankathy at gmail.com
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