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Transformative Principal: Hats, Tats, and UDL with Bryan Dean

February 27, 2025 · 41:31

Today, we're sharing a conversation from Transformative Principal, between host Jethro Jones and guest Bryan Dean. Bryan 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.

The conversation covers:

Giving UDL away for free
Building products through grants
People think UDL is static, but it isn’t.
Identity is important.
UDL is human centric, not student centric.
How UDL invites students to take ownership of their learning experiences.
Do you feel behind?
“What if I could have gone through school feeling unencumbered?”
Expert Learners vs. executive functioning
Bounded autonomy.
Assumptions about student learning.
Joy Zabala - You can’t boil the ocean
UDL Con is an Experience
AI, Accessibility,
UDL Guidelines 3.0
UDL Con - where the guidelines will be released.
CAST.org - check out the projects and resources.
How to be a transformative principal? Ghostwalks - walk with nobody there in your school. What is being said by what is on the walls and in the classroom.

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Transformative Principal: Hats, Tats, and UDL with Bryan Dean

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