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.
M.A.T. Educational Technology, Curriculum, and Instruction, Madonna University
M. A. Teaching and Learning (k12A), Madonna University
B.A. English Language Arts (6-12), Eastern Michigan University
B.A. Special Education Emotionally Impaired (K-26), Eastern Michigan University