Hi y'all. Welcome to the All Together Now Blog. I am a mom, former UMass Boston critical reading and writing instructor and executive function coach, currently an instructional designer and online learning coach, White, queer lady, lover of fantasy and YA fiction, gardening, the great outdoors, and all around teaching and learning nerd. I like to ask big questions and then try to figure out the answers - sometimes with semi-obsessive deep dives. These last few years I've dug in deep on educational equity. As a teacher I was enthralled by trying to figure out how to support my students, almost all of whom fell into at least one of these categories: immigrants, first generation college students, English language learners, students with disabilities, low-income students, or students who struggled with academic reading and writing. I found Universal Design for Learning to be an amazing addition to my practice. In 2018 I left teaching for MIT's Teaching Systems Lab ...