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• CAST to Investigate How Outdoor Recreation Can Foster Positive STEM Identities and Pathways for Rural Youth

  

  Tuesday, September 20, 2022

  CAST and UNH have been awarded funding from the NSF AISL program to explore strategies that make STEM careers more attractive and accessible to teenagers in New Hampshire’s rural communities.

• Kavita Rao

  

  My memorable experience with CAST was the first workshop I was invited to facilitate after joining CAST’s Professional Learning cadre in 2014. Grace Meo invited me to meet her in California to co-present a UDL workshop for the LA Unified School District. It turned out to be a huge event, and we were ushered into a "green room” when we arrived at the venue. Grace and I joked about feeling like celebrities as we waited for our call to the stage. That was my first experience collaborating with CAST. Although I haven’t found myself in any more green rooms since then, I have appreciated opportunities to collaborate on UDL presentations and publications with many more CAST friends and family over the subsequent years. Shout out to Liz Berquist, Allison Posey, David Gordon, David Rose, and Jenna Gravel for being such a great “CAST of characters” to work with.

• CAST & ISKME Partner to Make OERs More Inclusive, Effective

  

  Wednesday, March 13, 2019

  The goal: Open Educational Resources that are more accessible and discoverable, and that provide needed accommodations.

• CAST Takes Center Stage at the White House

  

  Monday, May 20, 2024

  CAST visits the White House for a round table with the Department of Education

• Senior U.S. Department of Education Officials Visit CAST

  Monday, September 12, 2016

  Senior U.S. Department of Education officials visit CAST and local schools that practice UDL during "Opportunity Across America" Back-to-School Bus Tour. Sue Swenson, acting assistant secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), and Ruth Ryder, acting director of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), will visit CAST on Tuesday afternoon for a “Learning and Listening” roundtable discussion of hot-button topics such as ways to improve K-12 literacy instruction, assessment, classroom products, and teacher preparation to make schools more inclusive and effective.

• CAST to Establish California Collaborative for Inclusive Literacy

  

  Friday, July 10, 2020

  CAST is pleased to announce the establishment of the California Collaborative for Inclusive Literacy (CCIL), a statewide professional development partnership to improve literacy outcomes using CAST’s signature framework, Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

• CAST to Lead Effort to Improve School Technologies for Students with Disabilities

  

  Thursday, April 4, 2019

  Five-year, $3.5 million OSEP-funded effort will bolster assistive and instructional technology design and use.

• Counteracting Stigma and Stereotype-Threat with Universal Design for Learning

  

  Thursday, September 3, 2015

  In this interview with Harvard University's Usable Knowledge newsletter, Co-President Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann describes CAST's work on how Universal Design for Learning can help offset the threat of stigma and stereotypes for students with learning disabilities.

• CAST Unveils UDL On Campus Redesign

  

  Thursday, October 8, 2015

  CAST today made public a redesign of UDL On Campus: Universal Design in Higher Education (http://udloncampus.cast.org), a popular website that helps postsecondary educators improve learning opportunities for all students through better curriculum design and technology choices.

• Joy Zabala Receives 2016 OCALI Award

  

  Tuesday, November 22, 2016

  On Thursday, November 17 at OCALICON 2016 held in Columbus, OH, Joy Zabala, CAST's Director of Technical Assistance and Co-Director of the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, was one of the recipients of the 2016 OCALI Awards.