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• Senior U.S. Department of Education Officials Visit CAST

  Monday, September 12, 2016

  Senior U.S. Department of Education officials visit CAST and local schools that practice UDL during "Opportunity Across America" Back-to-School Bus Tour. Sue Swenson, acting assistant secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), and Ruth Ryder, acting director of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), will visit CAST on Tuesday afternoon for a “Learning and Listening” roundtable discussion of hot-button topics such as ways to improve K-12 literacy instruction, assessment, classroom products, and teacher preparation to make schools more inclusive and effective.

• CAST to Establish California Collaborative for Inclusive Literacy

  

  Friday, July 10, 2020

  CAST is pleased to announce the establishment of the California Collaborative for Inclusive Literacy (CCIL), a statewide professional development partnership to improve literacy outcomes using CAST’s signature framework, Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

• CAST to Lead Effort to Improve School Technologies for Students with Disabilities

  

  Thursday, April 4, 2019

  Five-year, $3.5 million OSEP-funded effort will bolster assistive and instructional technology design and use.

• CAST Remembers Friend & Colleague, Dr. Joy Smiley Zabala

  

  Thursday, July 1, 2021

  It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the death of our dear friend and colleague, Joy Zabala. Her joyous spirit lives on in each life she touched, including ours.

• CAST Announces AT/AEM Fellowship to Honor Joy Zabala

  

  Friday, August 6, 2021

  The Joy Zabala Fellowship in Assistive Technology & Accessible Educational Materials will celebrate the life and work of our dear colleague, Joy Smiley Zabala, EdD.

• Joy Zabala Receives 2016 OCALI Award

  

  Tuesday, November 22, 2016

  On Thursday, November 17 at OCALICON 2016 held in Columbus, OH, Joy Zabala, CAST's Director of Technical Assistance and Co-Director of the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, was one of the recipients of the 2016 OCALI Awards.

• CAST Policy Analyst Quoted in Education Week

  

  Wednesday, April 1, 2015

  Senior Policy Analyst Skip Stahl commented in Education Week about the state of online postsecondary education for students with disabilities

• Counteracting Stigma and Stereotype-Threat with Universal Design for Learning

  

  Thursday, September 3, 2015

  In this interview with Harvard University's Usable Knowledge newsletter, Co-President Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann describes CAST's work on how Universal Design for Learning can help offset the threat of stigma and stereotypes for students with learning disabilities.

• CAST Unveils UDL On Campus Redesign

  

  Thursday, October 8, 2015

  CAST today made public a redesign of UDL On Campus: Universal Design in Higher Education (http://udloncampus.cast.org), a popular website that helps postsecondary educators improve learning opportunities for all students through better curriculum design and technology choices.

• CAST Announces Young Adult Advisory Board to Inform the Updating of the UDL Guidelines

  

  Wednesday, July 19, 2023

  We are thrilled to announce the launch of a Young Adult Advisory Board to support the community-driven process to update the UDL Guidelines.