Senior Product Development Manager
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Short Biography – Education – Current Projects – Selected Presentations and Courses
Short Biography
Patricia Ganley manages CAST's school-based implementation of research and development projects, including teacher training, classroom instruction, and data collection in classrooms. She also collaborates with teachers, programmers, researchers, and students to develop technology solutions for these projects, bringing to this work more than two decades of experience in education and psychology.
Prior to working at CAST, Ms. Ganley worked in EBSCO Publishing’s Research and Development Department developing educational web tools and literacy software.
Education
M. Ed, Antioch University, Institute for Open Education, Cambridge, MA
B.A., Social Services, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
A.S., Early Childhood Education, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Current Projects
Online Writing Assistance for All/ MassOne Writer – an OSEP-funded project to develop and evaluate a web-based tool that integrates the principles of Universal Design for Learning with research-based writing strategies to support middle school students with specific learning disabilities.
Project Monitor – an OSEP-funded project creating and evaluating the application of progress monitoring to an interactive digital reading environment. The project aims to determine whether the addition of progress monitoring in this setting leads to better reading instruction for all students, especially those with disabilities.
Science Writer – an OSEP-funded project to create a technology-based writing approach to meet the challenge of supporting students (grades 6-10) with and without disabilities in the science report-writing process. The project integrates research-based writing strategies and curriculum based measurement into a flexible, technology-based writing environment.
Urban Ecology Institute – The Boston College Urban Ecology Institute, in partnership with CAST, the University of Arizona, the University of Connecticut, and Northern Illinois University was awarded a NSF Instructional Materials Development Grant to create an ecology curriculum with an urban focus for 11th and 12th grade students. CAST’s role is to create and evaluate an online delivery mechanism for the curriculum which applies the principles of UDL to the curriculum materials, experiments, labs, and action plans students generate while learning about urban ecology.
Selected Presentations and Courses
Presenter, Applying UDL to Literature: Comprehension Strategies, Monitoring Progress, and Discussion Forums, the Council for Exceptional Children National Convention, Boston, MA (April, 2008).
Presenter, Supporting the Scientific Inquiry Process with UDL, the Council for Exceptional Children National Convention, Boston, MA (April 2008).
Instructor, Integrating Technology into Curriculum Using a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework, Salem State College graduate course, Salem, MA (Spring 2007).
Presenter, A UDL Approach to Monitoring Student Progress in Writing Students’ Science Reports, the Council for Exceptional Children National Convention, Louisville, KY (April 2007).
Instructor, Shaking Up the Classroom: Using UDL to Engage All Learners in an Interdisciplinary Unit, Salem State College graduate course, Salem, MA (Fall 2005).
