Complimentary Interactive Webinar

Making Science Accessible to All Learners

UDL in the Middle School Science Classroom

Experience it. Understand why it works. Leave ready to use it.

Join ADAC for a complimentary, 60-minute interactive webinar focused on making middle school science more accessible through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)—without lowering rigor or adopting a new curriculum or program.

Participants will experience practical science routines as learners, explore why they work through a UDL lens, and leave with classroom-ready strategies and resources they can use or adapt right away.

Event Details

Date Wednesday
September 23, 2026

Time 9:00–10:00 a.m. PT
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET

Format Live Virtual Webinar

Cost Complimentary

What You'll Experience

This isn't simply a webinar about UDL. You'll experience the strategies as a learner.

Through an interactive middle school science task, participants will see how UDL can be intentionally embedded within everyday science instruction to reduce barriers while maintaining rigor.

Together, we'll explore a small number of high-leverage science thinking moves and instructional routines that help students think and act like scientists.

Noticing and wondering
Identifying patterns
Considering cause and effect
Questioning and testing ideas
Representing thinking
Revising ideas based on evidence

Rather than treating these practices as another set of standards to cover, the session will make them concrete, practical, and manageable for everyday science instruction.

What You'll Take Away

Identify common barriers that can prevent students from fully engaging in middle school science learning.
Experience a high-leverage science routine from the learner perspective and examine why it works through a UDL lens.
Apply key UDL principles to make science instruction more accessible without lowering rigor.
Use 2–3 repeatable instructional routines that promote student thinking, inquiry, discussion, and evidence-based reasoning.
Connect accessible science instruction to the ways scientists and engineers think—including noticing patterns, considering cause and effect, questioning, testing, representing, and revising ideas.
Examine a sample science lesson through a UDL lens and identify opportunities for multiple pathways for engagement, representation, and student response.
Leave with a classroom-ready lesson and routine that can be used or adapted immediately within an existing science curriculum.

Who Should Attend?

This complimentary professional learning opportunity is designed for educators in Catholic and other faith-based schools.

Middle school science teachers
Instructional coaches
School leaders
High school science teachers

Bring your science team!

Schools are encouraged to have multiple educators participate and explore how these strategies could support science instruction across grade levels.

Practical Strategies. No New Program Required.

Great science instruction doesn't require adding another program to your plate.

The strategies explored during this webinar are curriculum- and program-agnostic, allowing educators to incorporate them into the science materials and curriculum they already use.

Ready to Join Us?

In just 60 minutes, experience practical strategies, understand the UDL principles behind them, and leave with resources you can begin using right away.