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• CAST Urges DeVos to Reject More Waivers

  

  Monday, April 6, 2020

  Waivers for Section 504 or IDEA would reduce the civil rights and learning opportunities for students with disabilities.

• Consultation & Coaching

  

  CAST works in partnership with schools, districts, states, and organizations to create learning environments that are flexible, accessible, and empowering for all.

• REVISE Center: A Collaborative Effort to Advance Equity in Informal STEM Education

  

  CAST is working as a part of the web infrastructure team (collaborating with the Director of Digital Infrastructure and Virtual Community and the Director of Operations and Communication for the REVISE Center) to advise and consult on creating tools for the AISL Equity Resource Center, specifically, the materials and products created and posted on the AISL website.

• Presentation

  See CAST at the UDL-IRN Summit 2019!

  

  Wednesday, March 27 – Friday, March 29, 2019

  Heading to the 2019 UDL-IRN Summit? Check out the fantastic sessions with CAST staff! March 28-29, 2019 Orlando, FL

• Clusive: An Accessible, Digital Reading Platform

  

  Clusive is an adaptive and accessible web-based reader designed to engage students in independent reading. Based on the inclusive principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Clusive scaffolds the development of reading skills for students in grades 5 through 12.

• Digital Promise & CAST Announce New UDL Product Certification

  

  Tuesday, January 17, 2023

  The Product Certification serves as a signal to district leaders for edtech products that enable meaningful participation from all students.

• Article

  Background Knowledge Instruction and the Implications for UDL Implementation

  N. Strangman, T. Hall, & A. Meyer, 2004

  Reading to learn is a fundamental literacy skill and one closely tied to success in all areas of the curriculum. This article examines the research on instructional approaches to support students’ use of background knowledge. …

• Article

  Graphic Organizers and Implications for Universal Design for Learning

  N. Strangman, et al., 2003

  Graphic organizers are introduced and defined as graphic or visual displays that depict the relationships between facts, terms, and/or ideas within a learning task. Various examples of graphic organizers are covered, including applications …

• Statement

  CAST’s Response to the PARCC Accommodations Drafts: Reading and Calculators

  

  CAST, 2013

  CAST offers recommendations to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) to improve its proposed accommodations for students with disabilities who take PARCC’s large-scale assessment. The accommodations in question concern reading and the use of calculators.

• Add Universal Design for Learning to Your CTE State Plan

  

  Wednesday, August 16, 2023

  By including UDL as a component of training and as a lever for innovation, CTE administrators and leaders are improving and optimizing teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.