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TIES Center Briefs: 10 Reasons to Support Inclusive School Communities for ALL Students

Inclusive school communities are educational settings in which students with disabilities have opportunities to participate and receive support in all aspects of school life alongside peers who do not have disabilities. In an inclusive system, special educators, specialized instructional support ...

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Providing Meaningful General Education Curriculum Access to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

The purpose of this brief is to answer the question of what access to and progress in the general education curriculum means for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. This brief also confirms that federal education laws require that students who participate in the AA-AAAS rec...

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Taking the Alternate Assessment Does NOT Mean Education in a Separate Setting!

The decision about which assessment a student takes is separate from the decision about where a student is educated. Participation in the alternate assessment does not automatically mean that a student is in a different setting from that of his or her same-age peers without disabilities. 

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The Basics of Accommodations and Modifications - NCEO

The purpose of this Brief is to clarify what accommodations and modifications are for both instruction and assessment for students with disabilities. We also disentangle the use of the term “alternate or modified curriculum” from the meaning of modification used for instruction and assessment. Ac...

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Picture Career Interest Inventory

Author: Shasta Twenty-first Century Career Connections The Career Interest Inventory Pictorial Version helps students relate interests and abilities to career choices. This interest inventory is based on the six types of Holland occupational interests: Realistic (R), Investigative (I),...

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