Universal Design for Learning: An Interactive ExplorationEarly Career FellowshipIn-Person
Friday, Feb 13, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
NYU’s School of Professional Studies (SPS) offers career-focused undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs that connect academic learning with real-world industry experience across fields like business, media, global affairs, and hospitality.
Together, we will explore the vibrant crossing of active learning and accessible learning through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework for teaching based on scientific insights about how humans learn. And while the philosophies and practices of UDL really can’t ever be universal (a critique we’ll explore), its goals are “founded on, and committed to, the fight for educational equity, until learning has no limits.” How can we use these tools for our teaching, for our students? In this master class, we’ll look at ways in which UDL maps onto our own teaching and learning, and then explore how it might work best for our students.
A CAST interpreter will help to facilitate this event.
This master class is open to teachers in the Early Career Fellowship and their mentors.
Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Aetna Endowed Chair of Writing at the University of Connecticut and a summer faculty member at Bread Loaf School of English, began her career as a high school teacher in rural Kansas before pursuing graduate studies. Deaf from birth, she played a key role in shaping the emerging field of disability studies in the 1990s. She has authored, coauthored, or edited sixteen books—including the Deaf Lives memoir series for Gallaudet University Press—and over seventy essays on Deaf/disability studies and writing/art. Her current research explores disability and deafness in visual and literary arts. A former public school teacher, she remains committed to working with K-12 educators. This is her fifth master class with the Academy for Teachers.