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• Build Accessible Websites with CAST Figuration

  

  Wednesday, July 20, 2016

  Learn about our newly-released open source CSS/Javascript framework for creating responsive, accessible, flexible websites.

• Linda Gerstle Named CAST CEO

  

  Wednesday, November 2, 2016

  CAST's Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Linda Gerstle as the organization's Chief Executive Officer.

• A Response to Misinformation about a CAST Event

  Tuesday, October 6, 2020

  CAST’s nonpartisan work on behalf of marginalized students—and especially students with disabilities—has been celebrated by people of all political persuasions.

• 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. …

• About CAST

  

  Located near Boston, CAST is a nonprofit education research and development organization that created the Universal Design for Learning framework, now used the world over to make learning more inclusive. The CAST team includes over 50 talented employees, including world-class educators, learning scientists, instructional designers, literacy experts, policy analysts, UX and graphic designers, software engineers, and a first-rate administrative and executive staff.

• Understanding the Effects of Stigmas and Stereotypes for Students with Learning Disabilities

  

  Students with learning disabilities often report feeling stigmatized and stereotyped in school settings. This can have dramatic effects on academic performance in critical subjects such as math. Such barriers to learning can, in turn, have a lifelong impact on achievement.

• Project COOL: A Scalable UDL Coaching Model

  

  Project COOL will apply evidence-based practices and high-leverage practices—that is, essential, research-proven teaching techniques—to support the implementation of robust and engaging learning opportunities for all students to boost academic, functional, developmental, and behavioral outcomes.

• Writer's Workbench: The Keys to Writing Smarter

  

  CAST has partnered with Arizona State University to develop and evaluate the impact of a professional learning ecosystem to support 7th and 8th-grade teachers in providing more effective writing instruction to students with high-incidence disabilities.

• Sylvia Rodriguez Douglass

  

  Implementation Specialist

  Dr. Rodriguez Douglass is an Implementation Specialist in Northern California. Prior to joining CAST, she was the Universal Design for Learning Instructional Coach at San Francisco Day School.

• Cassandra Sell

  

  Art Director

  Before joining CAST in 2015, Cassandra Sell worked with WGBH Digital in Brighton, MA as the lead digital designer on a variety of initiatives.