Ralph Ellison is quoted saying, ?Education is all a matter of building bridges.? As an educator, I work to help my students make connections to literature and develop the critical thinking and language skills they will need throughout their lives. I seek to implement the best practices from the Understanding by Design (UbD) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) frameworks. UbD looks at how to improve student understanding by identifying the most important content knowledge or skills, decid...