ECIS UDL Workshop Series 2026: 05, 12, & 19 May

05, 12, & 19 May 2026
15:00–16:30 (London) on each day.
Presented by Beth Stark

3 × 90-minute virtual sessions

Whether you are just beginning your UDL journey or have been deepening your practice for years, this UDL virtual learning series is designed for all international educators and leaders.

This is not a comprehensive introduction to UDL. Instead, each workshop offers a zoom-in experience, a closer look at one dimension of the larger landscape of honouring and fostering learner agency with the UDL framework. Together, we will build a deeper understanding of inclusive learning design and explore practical approaches you can bring directly into your work.

Each 90-minute session stands on its own while building a connected learning arc.
Together we will:

• explore how we can honour agency in the design of learning engagements and environments
• learn to identify and reduce learning barriers
• put the UDL guidelines into action through a practical, sustainable approach

You will leave each session with questions to continue exploring and adaptable resources to use tomorrow.

Workshop 1: Getting to the Goal of UDL: Learner Agency

Learner agency is something many educators quickly rally around but find genuinely hard to define. In this session, we will explore what it means to honour individual and collective learner agency in your school context, and how the UDL framework can support you. Through collaborative reflection and design work, you will build shared clarity and leave with practical tools to keep the conversation going in your schools.

By the end of our session, every participant will:

• know curated resources to deepen their understanding of individual and collective learner agency
• understand how to embed meaningful shifts into their learning design process that will foster the agency of every learner
• design a choice board to facilitate future exploration about learner agency with stakeholders in their schools

Workshop 2: What Embracing Variability & Reducing Barriers Means for Learners

When a lesson does not reach a learner, the barrier is almost always in the design, not the learner. In this session, we will use the UDL framework as a lens for looking at your own planning with fresh eyes. Through a structured coaching protocol, you will identify real barriers in a lesson you are currently working on and explore what it looks like to design around them.

By the end of our session, every participant will:

• understand learner variability and experience a clear shift in how they identify what stands in the way of access and engagement
• reimagine a learning prep or plan they are currently working on with UDL-informed design thinking
• apply a tool to support learners to communicate how they learn best and be active co-constructors of learning experiences and spaces

Workshop 3: Designing for Access: Putting the UDL Principles and Guidelines into Action

Together, we will learn about the principles of UDL and work directly with the guidelines as a planning scaffold, making intentional design shifts to honour the agency of every learner. You will leave with resources and a clear, repeatable process to bring back to your teams.

By the end of our session, every participant will:

• know the UDL principles and guidelines through hands-on application directly to their own planning
• create a concrete artifact from their current practice with one specific, sustainable Plus One shift built in
• use the UDL guidelines as an ongoing planning scaffold they can share independently

Bonus Workshop 4 (Open Registration Finale): Aiming for ALL! Accessibility is for Everyone

Accessibility is a human right but it still feels like unfamiliar territory for many educators and learning leaders. In this session, we will explore digital and in-person accessibility and why it matters for every learner in every space. Using the Aiming for ALL LiveBinder as a professional learning sandbox, we will build shared understanding and practical capacity for reducing barriers together.

By the end of our session, every participant will:

• understand accessibility as a human right and what that means for how we design learning environments, both digital and in person
• use a “Choose Your Own Adventure” discussion guide and a gamified exploration tool for making meaningful connections across the resources in the LiveBinder with colleagues
• access the Aiming for ALL LiveBinder, a curated sandbox for ongoing professional learning about reducing accessibility barriers.

About the Facilitator

Beth Stark partners with international schools as a professional learning facilitator specializing in UDL and is the co-creator of LUDIA, the AI-powered UDL thought partner. She is a passionate learner advocate dedicated to building sustainable systems of support and the thoughtful use of technology to reduce learning barriers.

Along with LUDIA’s co-creator, Jérémie Rostan, she was honoured to receive the 2025 CAST UDL Anne Meyer Design Award.

Based in Germany, Beth draws from her sixteen years of experience in IB international schools and is an ISTE certified educator and CPACC certified member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals.

Beth Stark, UDL and Inclusionary Practices Strategist for International Schools.
www.bethstark.org