When students own their learning, they are more motivated, engaged, excited, and self-directed to show mastery of their learning on a particular concept or skillset. By empowering students with choice and customized learning as well as exploring rigorous learning opportunities in an ideal learning environment, students build relationships through nurturing classroom collaboration that allows them to persist through obstacles and challenges and gain a deeper awareness of their potential. " The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn"(CAST, 2021). Aligning the AVID Digital Framework- The Four A's (Adopt, Adapt, Accelerate, Advocate) with CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines, educators will focus on how Engagement (the why of learning), Representation (the what of learning), & Action and Expression (the how of learning) align with AVID pedological approaches of the 4 A's to create meaningful learner-centered experiences and "create pathways toward meaningful integration of digital tools and WICOR Instructional practices that will increases student ownership and independence of their learning" (AVID Center, 2017). Optimizing choice and customizing learning while nurturing classroom collaboration empowers students to take ownership of their learning. AVID's Digital Framework and the Universal Design For Learning (UDL) guidelines, in combination, empower students by providing voice and choice to explore rigorous learning opportunities that allow students to exercise their academic, social, and emotional learning. This professional learning experience is designed to support educators as they connect the why, what, and how of learning in digital settings. Participants will learn how to maximize instructional decisions that best support students in the classroom to persist through obstacles and challenges, gain a deeper awareness of personal protentional and build relationships to prepare them for success in the global society.