Variability Is a Strength: Supporting Learner Variability Across Diverse Learning Environments

Treah Hutchings serves as InnovateEDU’s Special Education Project Manager for the Educating All Learners™ Alliance. In this role, Treah supports the alliance to ensure the continuity of special education services across educational environments and to spotlight best practice approaches for schools and educators.

Before joining InnovateEDU, Treah worked as a teacher in Kansas City and Dallas, leading students and fellow teachers in literacy, technology, and professional development initiatives. Finding a calling in digital, accessible learning resources, Treah spent her most recent years creating educational content for district and edtech audiences. Treah’s first hand experience working within education communities sparks her passion for supporting teachers, students, and the betterment of education systems.

Deborah Taub, PhD, has provided technical assistance, professional development, and coaching for states, territories, and other entities working to develop and sustain systemic change with a focus on inclusive practices for students with complex disabilities. Dr. Taub has expertise in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), co-teaching and coaching, systems change, and making standards-based content instruction accessible.  Her work is informed by her experience as a teacher and the practical needs of the classroom as well as evidence-based practices and research. Currently, she works with several collaborators on projects to support UDL and accessible standards-based instruction for all students. She works with the TIES Center as a technical assistance specialist around evidence-based practices and sustainable systems for equitable inclusive opportunities to learn for all students. Dr. Taub has contributed journal articles, book chapters, and numerous trainings to the field of educating children with complex needs, and has presented internationally. She was also a writer and developer for the educational materials of the film Intelligent Lives.