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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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November 03, 2025

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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TTS Fact Sheet

This document explains the  different levels of TTS available on the KAP state assessment and provides a flow chart for determining if a student is appropriate for the TTS for passages and graphics

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November 03, 2025

TIES Center: Tip #6 Using the Least Dangerous Assumption in Educational Decisions

The least dangerous assumption pushes us to consider all students as capable (Jorgensen, 2005). Our challenge is to not think in a deficit mindset but consider what can we do to support students in how they access, engage in, and respond not only to life skills content, but academic content, as w...

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