Our plan for including UDL guidelines and CAST principles starts with understanding what both concepts entail. CAST’s principles are to accomplish equality within learning environments where all learners in educational programs, workers in their workplaces, and other aspects of life are accessible by creating designs that lower and get rid of barriers entirely; therefore, all people can learn, gain skills, and grow. 

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that aims to help learners as well as help instructors introduce UDL guidelines to help shape their programs to be accessible and designed to create inclusive environments. The UDL guidelines can be made up of three different steps which we implement to ensure students are learning: