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Registration is now open for AE's Summer 2026 professional development UbD workshops. Early bird and group discounted registration rates are available.
Developing nature-based curricula through the UbD framework takes outdoor learning from an exciting bonus to a meaningful practice.
AE delivers engaging, consequential, and enriching professional development for educators & we are excited to announce our Summer 2025 PD series.
Resolutions provide a perfect model to bring reflection into the classroom through the backwards-planning framework of Understanding by Design (UbD).
Frameworks like UbD and PBL have been instrumental in shifting ways in which we organically incorporate assessments and feedback.
Essential questions are the overarching questions that provoke thought and lead students to inquiry, meaning making and finally transfer, while understandings are the concepts and skills that students will use to be able to gain and draw inferences, make connections and apply the learning to new situations
A primary goal of UbD is to make meaning of learning by way of “big ideas” and to transfer learning and this can be applied to all subject areas.
I will share how I took an existing unit back to the drawing board to “UbD it” through workshops, feedback, and simple trial and error.
On Thursday, we did a live webinar on design thinking involving me, David Jakes, Don Buckley; […]
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