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Convince your principal to embrace UDL

We've come upon a way we can cut expenditures while bringing our students to the cutting edge of education in the 21st cen t ury! Since our primary goal is to educate, we can do this through technology. Vast technology is being discovered at lightning speed, whi ch is exactly how our students are seeking knowledge. We can cut down the amount of paper and books to be purchased by using ebooks wherever possible! We can differentiate projects, engage students globally and prepare individuals for the digital age by increasing the amount of technology used in every class. All of our academic teachers agree that we have a tough time keeping students engaged in the subjects we teach. Wouldn't it make sense to try to engage them in ways that they already find appealing? For example, what if, instead of banning cell phones, we come up with assignments that use them? And instead of spending thousands of dollars a year on heavy textbooks that are hardly ever opened by students, what if we purchased Apple's new interactive textbooks? These interactive textbooks are available for trial now (I have sent you a link with this email) and cost only $15 each (as opposed to the $85 per book we paid for the new chemistry texts last year).

Of course, traditional paper and pencil will still need to be a part of the curriculum but isn ' t it exciting to know there are new options for educators to reach students who are already more technologically advanced than when we were in school.