Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners The UDL Approach

The cultural and linguistic diversity of students is on the rise, and educators want to know the most effective ways to teach English language learners (ELLs). Two research-based frameworks—Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which addresses the innate brain-based differences of learners, and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a pedagogy that responds to learners' cultural differences—can help. In this important new book, UDL experts and bestselling authors Patricia Kelly Ralabate and Loui Lord Nelson offer a unique lesson planning process that blends UDL and CRT so that educators can proactively meet the learning needs of ELLs.

Loui Lord Nelson, PhD, is an international educational consultant who focuses on Universal Design for Learning. She is the author of the bestseller Design & Deliver (Brookes). Patti Kelly Ralabate, EdD, is the author of the bestseller Your UDL Lesson Planner (Brookes) and former Director of Implementation at CAST, Inc.