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Superintendent reports midyear progress on UDL, belonging, MSBA eligibility and equity audit
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Chiu told the Westford School Committee on Jan. 21 that the district has completed an initial round of leadership walkthroughs aimed at calibrating Universal Design for Learning and will expand those efforts in spring 2025.
Superintendent Dr. Chiu told the Westford School Committee on Jan. 21 that the district has completed an initial round of leadership walkthroughs aimed at calibrating how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is observed and discussed across buildings, and that the district will conduct a second, wider round of learning walks in spring 2025.
Dr. Chiu said curriculum coordinators have joined classroom walkthroughs alongside principals and have revised an engagement rubric to emphasize whether "the majority of students" demonstrate engagement rather than listing rare whole-class behaviors. "We're not going through this and using this for an evaluation at all," Dr. Chiu said, describing the walkthroughs as non-evaluative calibration exercises intended to build leadership capacity.
Why it matters: The walkthroughs are intended to prepare building leaders to support a districtwide rollout of UDL practices. Dr. Chiu told the committee the work aims to…
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