Resources & Writing
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) 101
UDL Thinking, Planning & Application
UDL guidelines offer suggestions to reduce barriers and increase opportunities for learners with different needs. Grounding your work in UDL principles as you begin designing lessons supports a shift in outlook. UDL checkpoints help generate ideas and creativity, but they’re not a to-do list. UDL is most effective when it’s embedded in your thinking. Use UDL guidelines as a lens in your planning process, instead of as a review tool, to focus your design thinking and intentions.
UDL with Equity in Mind
Begin your UDL thinking from the foundation that individual, institutional, and systemic biases exist as barriers to learning without limits. Build on the value of interdependence and collective learning for all. Keep in mind that lessons are only as equitable as the most marginalized learners feel they are.
Trauma Stewardship in Health Care and Community Services
Training and Building Internal Systems for Staff Support
Working with people who experience multiple traumas can carry the specific
and compounding weight of witnessing suffering. Caring for people experiencing homelessness, substance use disorders, chronic health concerns, partner or family violence, unemployment and limited access to health care against the backdrop of systemic oppressions and structural biases can lead to feeling hopeless and powerless some days. This secondary ~ or vicarious ~ trauma can impact the care you give to others and the care you’re able to give to yourself. This can be a unique challenge for people whose core work is helping others.
Microlearning Tools, Tips & Application
With certificates in Microlearning and e-Learning Instructional Design from ATD, Maureen offers design and development of wrap-around microlearning tools to help fight the forgetting curve and build retention and transfer of learning.
Micro Courses & Supplmental Content
Build a full micro-course and develop and entire course or curriculum using the MILE Microlearning Design Model. Or, supplement your existing content by creating materials to reinforce, remind, and retain existing training content. There are at least five formats of microlearning resources and four times to put them to best use.
Would you like to learn more and think about going micro with your training content and designs? Maureen is here to help!
The Toolkit
The Teaching Transgender Toolkit
Maureen not only was the publisher and marketer for the Teaching Transgender Toolkit, with her most valued co-conspirators, Luca Maurer and Eli Green, she was the author of two lessons about building tools for social change and examining personal privilege for cisgender people. Downloads below!
Best Practice Guide
Providing Transgender and Nonbinary Care at Planned Parenthood: A Best Practice Guide
This best practice guide and start up kit provides rationale, terminology, information on the impact of stigma on health, standards of care, non-discrimination policies, informed consent, transgender patient navigation, staff training and communications and marketing.
Know How Guide: A Trans Person's Guide to Get or Change Documents and Paperwork
This booklet provides detailed information and a step-by-step guide for transgender people in New York State to get or change all of the life documents and essential paperwork you’ll need to make your way in the world. From driver’s licenses to birth certificates and passports to social security cards, it’s all of the information you need in one handy booklet!