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  • Photo of Linda Gerstle

    Wednesday, November 2, 2016

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

  • 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.

  • Until learning has no limits ®

    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.

  • Photo of a blank label

    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.

  • COOL: Coaching on Learning logo with various learning- and collaboration-related icons surrounding it

    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.

  • Teacher viewing Writer's Key progress monitoring screen.

    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.

  • Article

    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. …

  • Screenshots from some of the Technology Feature Brief documents

    These briefs are designed for educators, developers, and researchers to find out more about particular features within technology tools, how they’re used, and whether they might be effective in addressing different barriers within a technology environment.

  • Photo of 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.

  • Photo of 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.

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