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• Writer's Key: Online Tool Supports Middle School Writers

  

  Researchers from CAST and Arizona State University developed and tested Writer’s Key, a web-based tool that guides and supports middle-school students in writing argumentative (persuasive) and informational (expository) compositions.

• SNUDLE: Scaling an Inclusive Solution to Sensemaking in Science

  

  The goal of this project was to create a suite of implementation tools and professional learning resources for scaled and effective use of CAST’s evidence-based Science Notebook in a Universal Design for Learning Environment (SNUDLE).

• I-SMART: Formative & Summative Science Assessment of Struggling Students

  

  The goal of the I-SMART project is to develop rigorous, universally designed science assessments for students with significant cognitive disabilities and any students who are not meeting grade-level standards.

• ARMI: Career Exploration Pathways into Advanced Manufacturing for Diverse Learners

  

  CAST partnered with the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute to engage with and build a diverse workforce in emerging STEM fields such as robotics, biofabrication, and hybrid electronics.

• Multi-Gen STEM Makerspaces Will Boost School, Career Prospects

  

  The Multi-Gen Makers project is a collaboration with residents from Bayview Towers, a 200-unit affordable housing complex in Connecticut. Through a design-based research approach with iterative cycles of co-design, the project will develop and research a sustainable model for multigenerational making and learning that build the skills and dispositions that can support a STEM career trajectory.

• About Universal Design for Learning

  

  Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

• Inquiry Primed: Making Science More Inviting & Effective

  

  CAST partnered with the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) to create a web-based professional development course to help 8th-grade science teachers understand stereotype threat and adopt UDL-based methods to reduce the likely effects of stereotype threat in their everyday instruction.

• Using Data to Transform Instruction

  

  Schools, districts, and educators collect data constantly. How can we use that data to effectively transform instruction through UDL? Find out how the Fond Du Lac district in Wisconsin analyzed their proficiency data and made lasting changes through effective UDL implementation.

• UDL Rising to Equity Advisory Board

  

  The Advisory Board is comprised of external scholars and practitioners whose work focuses on equity through a variety of perspectives related to race, class, language, disability, and gender.

• Designing for Productive Struggle in Informal Science Learning

  

  We're exploring how informal science learning experiences can support science museum visitors' engagement in "productive struggle” — learning challenges that are exhilarating, challenging, intensive, and fruitful.