Jenna Gravel
Senior Director of PreK-12 Research at CAST
Jenna W. Gravel is CAST’s senior director of PreK-12 Research. She leads efforts to connect research and practice by supporting educators to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to design inclusive, accessible, and challenging learning environments. Jenna co-chaired a community-driven, research-based process to update CAST’s UDL Guidelines. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to these roles, Jenna was a middle school special educator and a research associate at CAST, and she contributed to the original editions of the UDL Guidelines.