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• CAST Folktales

  

  The CAST Folktales line of work supported literacy development for students, with a special focus on encouraging English Language Learners to leverage their home language to build reading comprehension skills in English.

• Events

  

  Through our learning events, CAST and the UDL-IRN connect participants from preK–12, higher education, workforce, and informal learning environments with experts who understand how to reach learners in the most effective way possible.

• Statement

  Addressing the Variability of Learners in Common Core-Aligned Assessments: Policies, Practices, and Universal Design for Learning

  

  CAST, 2013

  CAST responds to request by the writers of the assessments aligned to Common Core standards for comments on drafts of the assessments. In this statement, CAST points out five areas where the assessments could be improved to make ...

• Statement

  CAST’s Response to the PARCC Accommodations Drafts: Writing

  

  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 writing.

• Statement

  CAST’s Response to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s Accessibility and Accommodations Guidelines

  

  CAST, 2013

  CAST responds to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium’s request for public comment about its Accessibility and Accommodations Guidelines.

• UDL Guidelines 3.0 Collaborative

  

  The UDL Guidelines 3.0 Collaborative brings together CAST staff representing different branches of the organization as well as representatives within the larger UDL community.

• UDL in Public Policy

  

  UDL is found in many public policies in the U.S. around K-12 education, higher education, educational technology, and workforce development.

• Co-Design Concept Helps CAST Build Solutions for Teachers & Learners

  

  Education co-design—an extensive collaboration among participants in a learning ecosystem to design the best possible solutions—fits succinctly with CAST’s core mission to “bust the barriers of learning” for all through its Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

• UDL Credentials & Certifications for Educators & Product Developers

  

  We're leading a field-building initiative to stimulate, support, and sustain best practices in UDL education program design, product development, and classroom instruction to meet the growing global demand for UDL as a design framework that recognizes variability among all learners.

• My Own Pioneer

  

  According to former board president, Joanne Patton, CAST had the dreams and the professionalism to help her son George grow his confidence as a learner and communicator. Learn more about George and Joanne as she recounts how CAST made an impact on her, her son, and her family.