Inclusion

Inclusion is a cross-cutting theme in all of the work I do.

At World Learning (2016-now)

Quality Instruction Towards Access and Basic Education Improvement 2 (QITABI 2), USAID, Lebanon

  • Co-developing with local specialists all e-lessons for English grades 1-6 . Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) guidelines guide our lesson design, and additional UDL guidance is provided in the Teachers' Notes

  • Developed staff and teacher training materials on UDL

Uzbekistan Youth Project, USAID

  • Select and adapt classroom observation tool for economics and entrepreneurship classes and afterschool clubs for grades 8-11

    • Involved developing a section on observing UDL best practices

  • Train curriculum team on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Experiential Learning

Online Professional English Network (OPEN), U.S. Department of State (ECA)

  • Lead content author and technical designer of two online teacher training courses which have had 30,000+ graduates, in over 100 countries around the world, many of them participating from places of severe internet access restrictions

    • These courses follow stringent UDL guidelines, as specified by the ECA

Reading for Success – National Program for Reading, USAID, Morocco

  • Technical lead on World Learning’s support to National Program for Reading (NPR), led by Creative Associates.

  • Supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of 4 massive open online courses (MOOCs) for the training of public Arabic primary school teachers. Support included training the ministry's MOOC designers on UDL

Syrian Refugee Kids Can Code, Catalyst Foundation for Universal Education, Arbat Refugee Camp in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

  • Developed the English and psychosocial support curricula for the Syrian Refugee Kids Can Code project

World Learning’s Global STEM toolkit, www.globalstemlearning.org, Cisco

  • Toolkit contains a full chapter on UDL in STEM education

At Saint Louis University (2007-2015)

  • As chief organizer of teacher orientation week and Director of Basic Language, Spanish, I coordinated with Saint Louis University's office of Accessibility and Disability Resources

Workshops and Presentations

“Integrating SEL, UDL in Math During Changing Contexts: Cases from Lebanon, Ghana, and Guatemala” discussant at CIES, Minneapolis, MN, April 2022

Co-organizer, with Alisa Phillips, of "Linking Domestic and International Education: A Discussion on Anti-racist Practices for Racial Justice in Schools" for the Society of International Development, April 2021.

“Signed Languages and Performance Arts: Then and Now,” co-presented with Jody Cripps at the International Inclusive Early Childhood Forum, November 2020.

"Embedding Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and social and emotional learning (SEL) into distance teaching and learning materials in a low resource context" co-presenter with Garene Kaloustian at National Conference for the Teaching of English, Costa Rica/online, June 2020. (See participant feedback here.)

Two-week training for 15 grade school teachers of multiple indigenous languages and cultures, with lead facilitator Robert Elliott, at the University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, April, 2018.

Team building across cultures, workshop done on behalf of Baobab People for Youth in Need, Saint Louis, USA, May 2015.

Publications

McBride, K. (2008). Adaptive and maladaptive strategy use in computer-assisted language learning activities for listening comprehension. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 34(1-2), 57-79.


McBride, K. (2008). English web page use in an EFL setting: A contrastive rhetoric view of the development of information literacy. In U. Connor, E. Nagelhout & W. Rozycki (Eds.), Contrastive rhetoric (pp. 219–240). Philadelphia: Benjamins.


McBride, K., & Fägersten, K. B. (2008). Student’s role in distance learning. In S. Goertler & P. Winke (Eds.), Opening doors through distance language education: Principles, perspectives, and practices (pp. 43-66). San Marcos, TX: Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO).


Cripps, J., McBride, K, & K. Forster (2005). Lexical processing in deaf and hearing. SLAT Working Papers, 12, 31-43.

Mentoring

Reader on Esther Hugues’s dissertation committee at the University of Sonora (Hermosillo, Mexico): English as a second language within digital culture: Young university students’ identities (written in Spanish as Inglés como Lengua Extranjera (ILE) en la cultura digital: identidad de jóvenes universitarios). 2020.