Episode 34: Empowering ALL students using Universal Design for Learning
Episode description
In episode 34, we talked to Elise Hackl-Blumstein, a former accessible music educator and current student-services coordinator in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Elise has experience teaching preschool through eighth grade music, and also has created an accessible arts organization focused on accessibility in all arts. She is passionate about making sure all students have access to music and music education. In this interview, Elise shares how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a beneficial framework for teaching all music students.
You can connect with Elise and learn more about her work here:
- Instagram: @accessibleclassrooms
- Website: Elise Hackl-Blumstein
- Resource library (with lots of freebies): Accessible Music Store
- TPT (with lots of freebies): Accessible-Music-Room
- Ebook: Sensory Symphony
- Ebook: Our Voices, Our Song
- FREE Music ConstructED lesson: Accessible Composing In the General Music Classroom
- SEL Portraits Book: Teaching Music With Heart
- Keep an eye out for upcoming texts, to be released in Fall 2022 and Fall 2023!
Get a free book preview here: Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students
For more info: Pass the Baton
Free Download: 6 Questions to Pass the Baton and Empower Your Music Students