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• More than 45 Organizations Work Together to Promote UDL in Policy

  

  In 2006, CAST joined with several organizations to form the National UDL Task Force, an interdisciplinary coalition that advocates support for UDL in federal, state, and local policy. The Task Force has successfully advocated for the inclusion of UDL in the federal Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 and in various policy directives from the US Department of Education.

• About CAST

  

  Located near Boston, CAST is a nonprofit education research and development organization that created the Universal Design for Learning framework, now used the world over to make learning more inclusive. The CAST team 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.

• Internships

  

  CAST's internship program provides interns with opportunities to supplement academics with real-world, career-building experiences. CAST internships empower interns to pursue their own interests while developing their knowledge of UDL, and building relationships with people actively working in the field of education.

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  UDL Tips for Reducing Stereotype Threat

  

  CAST, 2016

  How can educators create welcoming social and emotional climates that improve learning opportunities for each one of our learners?

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  7 Things You Should Know about Universal Design for Learning

  J. Gronneberg & S. Johnston, 2015

  This article summarizes Universal Design for Learning, a framework for the design of materials and instructional methods that are usable by a wide range of students.

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  Collaborative Planning Using UDL

  P.K. Ralabate, et al., 2014

  Speech language pathologists (SLPs) working in inclusive classrooms bring a different orientation toward developing student goals and delivering language instruction than do general education classroom teachers. It is critical for SLPs ...

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  Universal Design for Learning for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Y. Domings, et al., 2014

  The authors discuss ways that the Universal Design for Learning principles and guidelines help educators move beyond just providing access to content, enabling us to instead move toward providing access to quality learning experience ...

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  Curriculum-Based Assessments

  T. Hall, et al., 2014

  Curriculum-based assessments (CBA) are defined as any set of measurement procedures that use direct observation and recording of a student’s performance in a local curriculum as a basis for gathering information to make instructional …

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  Emotional Responses During Reading

  S. G. Daley, et al., 2013

  This study investigated the relationship between emotional responses and reading performance in middle-school students. Although a large number of prior studies have investigated the relationship between emotion and reading, those studies ...

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  New Articles on the Biology of Stress and Environment Interactions

  G. Rappolt-Schlichtmann & S.E. Watamura, 2013

  In this introduction to a special section of Mind, Brain, and Education, the authors highlight two articles and a commentary, which broaden our focus beyond cortisol and stress system functioning to other hormone systems and tackle ...