CAST investigates solutions to the most critical questions across preK–12, Higher Ed, and workforce, including questions related to equity, access, and outcomes. Building on an award-winning history, we co-design transformative solutions, improvement strategies, implementation systems and practices, and tools for learning.
Current Projects
Corgi 2020: Scaling Models for the Classrooms of Tomorrow
Corgi graphic organizers are great on their own, but we're making them even better with a suite of professional learning resources to support their use in the classroom.
CCIL: Inclusive Literacy for California Students
We're working with California educators to design and deliver more inclusive literacy instruction.
IEP Improvement Project: Empowering Massachusetts Schools to Improve Service to Students
Family engagement in the IEP process is essential. Learn more about our professional learning work in Massachusetts to ensure a more equitable IEP process.
Multi-Gen STEM Makerspaces Will Boost School, Career Prospects
We're developing and researching a sustainable model for multigenerational making and learning that can support a STEM career trajectory.
CTEfolio: Supporting Hands-on Learning in a Remote Environment
Bringing our e-portfolio work into CTE programs so students can show what they know in new ways.
Learning Outside the Box: Co-Developing a CTE Pathway in Outdoor Recreation
Learn how CAST is helping build stronger career pathways for New Hampshire students in outdoor recreation.
UDL Video Club: Building Teacher Capacity to Reach All Learners
Educators in New Hampshire's remote North Country are working with CAST on a Virtual UDL Video Club to share and explore ways of enhancing their practice.
Supporting CTE Teaching in Remote & Hybrid Learning Environments
We're partnering with CTE programs in NH to support hands-on teaching in remote and hybrid environments
AEM Center: National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for Learning
Accessible materials are an essential component in UDL implementation. Learn how the AEM Center can help ramp up your accessible materials systems and practices.
IMTfolio: Opening Advanced Manufacturing Career Pathways to People with Disabilities
We're building a portable e-portfolio to help document young people's prior learning in competencies relevant to future apprenticeships.
CITES: Developing Comprehensive & Sustainable Systems for the Effective Use of Technology
We're framing the future of learning and technology by bringing together educational technology, information technology, and assistive technology.
AccessATE: Accessibility for Community College Technician Education
Supporting community and technical colleges in developing and maintaining accessible materials and practices.
CISL: Working to Ensure High Quality Digital Learning for All
Together we will transform the digital learning landscape so that everyone has a chance to engage in and succeed in digital learning.
Corgi-2: Enhancing Middle School STEM Learning
We took what’s already great about graphic organizers and made them more flexible and accessible.
NH UDL: New Hampshire UDL Innovation Network
We're supporting New Hampshire educators in building and sustaining a state-wide model for UDL implementation.
TIES Center: Meaningful Inclusion for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Supporting the development of systems that not only include more students with cognitive disabilities, but meet each learner's needs in meaningful ways.
ARMI: Career Exploration Pathways into Advanced Manufacturing for Diverse Learners
We're building a more inclusive talent pool for futuristic fields as robotics, biofabrication, and hybrid electronics.
CEE-STEM: Exploring STEM Careers with Opportunity Youth
Our STEMfolio tool leverages mobile technologies and competency-based progress monitoring to help youth develop STEM interests and skills.
Writer's Workbench: The Keys to Writing Smarter
As an extension of our Writer's Key tool, we're building a professional learning ecosystem to support more effective writing instruction.
ISMART: Assessing Science Knowledge & Skills for Struggling Students
Ensuring science assessments are truly inclusive of all learners, including those with significant cognitive disabilities.
UDL-CCI: UDL Credentials & Certifications for Educators & Product Developers
We're leading a UDL field-building initiative around credentials and certifications for educators and product developers.
SNUDLE: Scaling an Inclusive Solution to Sensemaking in Science
Helping teachers use science notebooks to support student science knowledge, motivation for science, and sensemaking.
SNUDLE: Student Efficacy Trial
Our UDL science notebook will be used in classrooms across the United States, supporting 4th grade students' science learning.
Past Projects
Our past work influences our current work in meaningful ways. Resources developed during the course of a project provide insight into the way we work, and are often publicly available to the field of education and learning.
Designing for Productive Struggle in Informal Science Learning
How do we design informal science learning challenges that are exhilarating, challenging, intensive, and fruitful?
A UDL Perspective on Assessment
Learn more about our interactive professional learning on UDL and assessments through interactive video modules.
RAISE: Science Education for Incarcerated Youth
Universally designed science content for incarcerated youth to broaden career horizons.
Putting Students in the EdTech Design Seat
What would it look like if next generation learning technologies were designed by students, not just for them?
CET-Udio: Closing the Literacy Gap
Our digital literacy environment was developed with UDL supports and scaffolds for struggling readers.
COLSD: Making Online Learning Accessible & Effective
Does online learning work for students with disabilities?
Inquiry Primed: Making Science More Inviting & Effective
What is stereotype threat and how can educators mitigate its effects?
Understanding the Effects of Stigmas and Stereotypes for Students with Learning Disabilities
Download the Stigma Consciousness Questionnaire-Learning Disabilities (SCQ-LD) developed as part of this work.
Project OPEN: Providing UDL Resources for Postsecondary Learning
Whether your postsecondary learning is in-person or online, UDL on Campus has resources and tips for course and assignment development and delivery.
Writer's Key: Online Tool Supports Middle School Writers
Composing informational and argumentative text can be a challenge. Writer's Key is up to the task.