Bryan Dean: UDL Innovation Specialist with CAST - 493

<p></p> <p></p> <p>Bryan Dean: UDL Innovation Specialist with CAST. This is episode 493 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.</p> <p>CAST's mission is to transform education design and practice until learning has no limits.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The acronym "CAST" derives from the original name of our organization, Center for Applied Special Technology. Now we're simply CAST.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>CAST | Until learning has no limits®</p> <p>Today, I will be talking with Bryan Dean, UDL Innovation Specialist</p> <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Awesome talk!</p> <p>You will enjoy this conversation.</p> <p>Thanks for listening.</p> <p>But wait...</p> <p>Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at <a href='https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/'>https: