Implementing UDL through Pre-Texts: Cultural Agents
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Harvard Ed Portal
224 Western Avenue Allston, MA 02134Description
Implementing UDL through Pre-Texts: Cultural Agents
Harvard Public School Partnerships, Boston Public Schools and Pre-Texts: Cultural Agents, invites grade three to five teachers to a five-week professional development designed to help you:
- Improve the implementation of a UDL approach in teaching Common Core literacy standards using Expeditiary Learning Modules.
- Understand how to build literacy skills through art making.
- Engage learners in cognitively demanding tasks through the pleasures of creative play.
Pre-Texts is a fun and flexible teacher training program that develops high order literacy and citizenship by using complex texts as prompts for making art.
Event Dates: April 6, 13, 27, May 4, 11
Sessions will be led by Doris Summer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and founder of Pre-Texts Cultural Agents, at Harvard University, Hilary Shea, Inclusion Specialist in the Boston Public Schools and Paul Tritter, Boston Teachers Union, Director of Professional Learning.
Please plan to attend all five sessions. The sessions are free. A light dinner will be served at each session. Limited free parking is available behind the Ed Portal. Accessible by MBTA bus 64, 66, 70, 70A, or 86.
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The Harvard Ed Portal fosters lifelong learning and collaboration among Harvard University, Allston-Brighton neighbors, and the greater community.
Allston-Brighton residents are invited to join the more than 4,000 other Allston-Brighton residents who have already become Ed Portal members and sign-up for membership. Ed Portal membership is and available to anyone who lives in Allston-Brighton or attends school at the Gardner Pilot Academy in North Allston. Visit the Ed Portal's membership page to learn more and apply.