A Tree for All: Your Coloring Book of UDL Principles and Practice
Loui Lord Nelson
Illustrator
Allison Posey
2019
About the Coloring Book
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 Nelson, author of the bestseller Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning. But the tree metaphor also provided a means to explain more effectively how to apply the UDL framework to any learning environment.
The result—A Tree for All: Your Coloring Book of UDL Principles and Practice—is a fun, engaging, and thought-provoking review of UDL theory and practice. Whether it is colorful . . . well, that’s up to you!
A Tree for All: Your Coloring Book of UDL Principles and Practice is available now in paperback ($12.00, 56 pages, 8.5x11″, ISBN: 9781930583146) and coming soon in eBook format ($12.00, ISBN: 9781930583153)!
Loui Lord Nelson on A Tree for All
Watch the entire series of short videos to get behind-the-scenes insights from Loui about A Tree for All.
About the Authors
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).
Illustrator Allison Posey is a curriculum design specialist at CAST and the author of Engage the Brain: How to Design for Learning That Taps into the Power of Emotion (ASCD).
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