Bryan Dean: UDL Innovation Specialist with CAST - 493

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