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    The Accessible Learning Experience | CAST, Illustrations of a microphone, sound waves, digital text, and wifi

    National AEM Center at CAST, 2022

    In this episode, our friends from Step Up AT explain how they are addressing the challenge of building capacity for the effective use of AT in the diverse settings where young children with disabilities and their families receive services.

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    Senior Instructional Designer & Research Associate

    In her work in CAST’s research and development initiatives, Kristin is particularly interested in using instructional design to acknowledge and empower the diverse priorities among the widest range of learners.

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    AASA Lead Superintendent for Social-Emotional Learning

    On July 1, 2015, Dr. Sheldon H. Berman assumed the superintendency of the Andover Public Schools in Massachusetts, as their interim superintendent for 2015-16...

  • Inclusive Learning 365 book cover and photos of the authors

    Friday, November 11, 2022

    Join the CITES Community of Practice to access a series of webinars with the authors of "Inclusive Learning 365"!

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    Friday, December 18, 2020

    As 2020 comes to a close, CAST's CEO, Linda Gerstle, looks back on the challenges and opportunities from an extraordinary year.

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    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.

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    logo for PARCC, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

    CAST, 2013

    CAST responds to a request by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) for comments on its draft PARCC Accommodations Manual for the organization’s large-scale assessment. In this statement, CAST points out five areas where the assessments could be improved to make them more accessible and effective for learners, especially those with disabilities.

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    Wednesday, February 17, 2016

    This past December, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces No Child Left Behind. And for the first time, the nation’s general K-12 education law defines and endorses Universal Design for Learning.

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    CAST's work is made possible by the generous financial support of foundations, corporations, government agencies, and individuals. We regularly partner with other research organizations, K-12 and postsecondary educators, government agencies and foundations to investigate solutions to challenging questions.

  • Screenshot of a UDL Editions web page

    Publicized by Google around the world, UDL Editions was a model for presenting classic texts from world literature in a flexible online interface with just-in-time, individualized supports for struggling and expert readers alike.

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