The SENIA Happy Hour Podcast Lori Boll

Today host Lori Boll is joined by renowned Universal Design for Learning expert, Dr. Loui Lord Nelson. Loui is an internationally recognized leader in UDL implementation. She wrote her bestselling book "Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning" while completing her UDL post-doctoral fellowship at CAST, the creators of the UDL framework. She has two other books on UDL, a card game, and hosts the popular "UDL in 15 Minutes" podcast listened to globally. In this episode, she'll provide an overview of UDL's core principles, share examples of culturally responsive practices that benefit English learners, discuss the inspiration behind her books, and offer advice for schools beginning their UDL journey,  We're excited to tap into Dr. Nelson's invaluable expertise around this transformative teaching approach.

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Resources From Today’s Show:




CAST Website


Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners: The UDL Approach


Design and Deliver






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On today’s podcast, host Lori Boll speaks with Maya Chupkov, host of The Proud Stutter podcast. Maya is a stuttering advocate and community organizer. As a woman who stutters, she is working to shift societal norms around stuttering and the disability community. Lori and Maya discuss Maya’s schooling experience, how teachers can make a better environment for their students who stutter, and all about an exciting documentary Maya is currently working on. It’s going to be a movie none of us will want to miss. 



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Resources From Today’s Show:

⁠Support Proud Stutter’s Documentary⁠- Rock of Hope

⁠Jay Jordan Navigated Incarceration With A Stutter. Now He’s Transforming the Criminal Justice System.⁠

⁠Nina G. Comedian Tedx⁠

⁠Life of Verbal Turbulence Comic Book⁠

⁠Life on Delay Memoir⁠


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On today’s podcast, host Lori Boll speaks with Katie Fowle and Sharoya Ham, authors of the #1 Bestselling book, Help! My Kid Won’t Go to School: Finding Hope on a Bad Day. Katie shares her experiences with her daughter who experienced school refusal and both Katie and Sharoys explain why school refusal happens, and some steps parents and teachers can take in understanding and supporting their children or students.


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On today's podcast, host Lori Boll speaks with Heidi Mermis-Cava, the Director of Student Support Services at the Shanghai American School. Heidi recently presented at the in-person SENIA conference in Vietnam, where she received overwhelmingly positive feedback for her work.

Heidi shares some of her expertise on distinguishing between English as an Additional Language (EAL), Specific Learning Disabilities, and Language Impairments. This provides a valuable preview of the more comprehensive information she will be sharing at the upcoming SENIA virtual conference. Be sure to join us at the conference to learn even more from Heidi.


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On today’s podcast, host Lori Boll speaks with Kevin Bartlett. Kevin is the founding director of the Common Ground Collaborative (CGC), one of SENIA’s partner organizations. CGC is a learning ecosystem used by schools in 20 countries. Kevin  has led schools in Tanzania, Austria, Namibia and Belgium. He was a trainer for the PTC, co-author of the ACE accreditation protocol for NEASC, initiator of the IB PYP and co-founder of The Next Frontier Inclusion. He was AAIE International Superintendent of the Year (2014) and was inducted into the AAIE Hall of Fame. Kevin and  Lori speak about his passion for inclusion, barriers to it, and how schools can embed it in a practical manner and create systems that include.


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Overview: 

Today host Lori Boll speaks with Ceci Gomez-Galvez who was one of our SENIA virtual conference speakers this year. Ceci (she.her.ella) is a collaborator, coach and advocate who empowers educators to create equitable learning opportunities for all language learners. Born and raised in Guatemala City, Ceci grew up in a unique bilingual household nurtured by her family who valued languages equally. Inspired by her own upbringing and her extensive experience in international schools, Ceci now leads a support program for multilingual learners based on practices which ensure culturally responsive teaching and equitable access.

Ceci and Lori speak about promoting language equity and translanguaging in our international schools as well as focusing on strong home-school partnerships in supporting a student’s language development. It’s always great learning from Ceci. 

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⁠Ceci's website⁠


⁠LinkedIn⁠



Resources from today’s show:


⁠Dr. Ofelia Garcia⁠


⁠Ginny Rojas⁠


⁠Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld⁠


⁠Street Data⁠



Bio

Ceci (she.her.ella) is a collaborator, coach and advocate who empowers educators to create equitable learning opportunities for all language learners. Born and raised in Guatemala City, Ceci grew up in a unique bilingual household nurtured by her family who valued languages equally. Inspired by her own upbringing and her extensive experience in international schools, Ceci now leads a support program for multilingual learners based on practices which ensure culturally responsive teaching and equitable access.




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