Bryan Dean: UDL Innovation Specialist with CAST

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Bryan Dean: UDL Innovation Specialist with CAST – 493

by michaelg August 9, 2022

Author: Steven Miletto
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Bryan Dean: UDL Innovation Specialist with CAST. This is episode 493 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

CAST’s mission is to transform education design and practice 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 and UDL Guidelines, now used the world over to make learning more inclusive.

The acronym “CAST” derives from the original name of our organization, Center for Applied Special Technology. Now we’re simply CAST.

Our CAST of characters 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.

CAST | Until learning has no limits®

Today, I will be talking with Bryan Dean, UDL Innovation Specialist

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.

Awesome talk!

Bryan Dean: UDL Innovation Specialist with CAST – 493

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