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Hats, Tats, and UDL with Bryan Dean Transformative Principal 607

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  • 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. 


About Bryan Dean

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.


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