Bryan Dean
Bryan Dean is CAST's Innovation Specialist. Bryan has been working with hard-to-reach students with emotional impairments, conduct disorder, behavioral difficulties, and low interest for more than 20 years. Bryan has experience designing professional learning around learner experience design, specially-designed instruction, Universal Design for Learning, new teacher induction, Design Thinking, deep learning, and strategies for students in emotional dysregulation. In addition to the designing of professional learning, he has designed virtual learning environments, worked on longitudinal system implementation and design, designed organizational culture and climate/culture change models, and developed a unique UDL coaching system based on appreciative and ontological coaching matrices.
Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.
Charles Eames, A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
My Inspiration
For me, this is the essence of Learning Design and UDL. The information exists and has been catalogued. How we choose to use, iterate upon, and learn from it is what defines our future as humans.
Education
M.A.T. Educational Technology, Curriculum, and Instruction, Madonna University
M. A. Teaching and Learning (k12A), Madonna University
B.A. English Language Arts (6-12), Eastern Michigan University
B.A. Special Education Emotionally Impaired (K-26), Eastern Michigan University
Selected Publications
Dillon, B. & Dean, B. (2019, December). A Conversation with Bryan Dean on Designing Effective School Systems. Help Me Understand Podcast. Retrieved from https://open.spotify.com/episode/355b7hkXxmxCcybYcLqnQ5
Jacobs, L. & Dean, B. (2019, August). Space futurist Bryan Dean... that's learning space, not outer space. Education Talk Radio Pre K–20 Podcast. Retrieved from https://www.blogtalkradio.com/edutalk/2019/08/12/space-futurist-brian-deanthats-learning-space-not-outer-space
McGregor, K. (2019, October 23). Classroom design is the next frontier in universal design. Elle Decor. Retrieved from https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/a29547925/classroom-universal-design-for-learning/
Hanna, S. (2018, April 16). Re-thinking UDL: an educational operating system? TextHelp Education Blog. Retrieved from https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/company/education-blog/april-2018/re-thinking-udl/
Erickson, B. & Dean, B. (2016, May 11). 5 insights about Universal Design for Learning. AtlasNext Blog. Retrieved from https://www.onatlas.com/blog/5-insights-udl
Selected Presentations
Rise of the Influencer
UDL Talk with Joni Degner, 2019 UDL-IRN International Summit
Leveraging Agile Space to Champion Learner Variability
UDL Talk, 2019 UDL-IRN International Summit
UDL: Beyond Framework to Educational Operating System
End of Average Talk, 2018 UDL-IRN International Summit
UDL-IRN Ask Me Anything Interviews
Allison Posey
February 27, 2017
Kathleen McClaskey
March 8, 2017
Jamie Basham
September 21, 2017
David Rose
October 9, 2016