Submitted by: Kelly

Present: Michael, Sherezada, Eliza, Daniel, Kara, Kelly
Absent: Jeanette

Our goal from our last meeting was to continue thinking about how our courses, classrooms, and curriculum can be designed for adjustability and variability (rather than “average”)—and how we can evaluate whether and how we are doing just that.

Building off of what we discussed after listening to the podcast last time, we started thinking about Universal Design by watching a video of a lecture by Sara Hendren, a professor at Olin college, that touched on many ideas about design and ability.

Here is the video that we watched: https://vimeo.com/134764010

We had a short discussion after the video, then spent a little time exploring the UDL Guidelines as one potential avenue for guiding our thinking in designing for adjustability—and a potential avenue (alongside tools more explicitly focused on race and other aspects of identity) for building a tool to evaluate our work.

In our next meeting, we plan to pull together different things that we’ve looked at this year to pass along to those in the summer work group.