Sentences with phrase «including alternate assessment»

Worked with the NCTM standards, state curriculum guides, and current evolving trends in mathematics education including alternate assessment and cooperative learning.

But unlike NCLB, the legislation requires states to provide reasonable adaptations and accommodations for assessing students with disabilities, including alternate assessments for the most significantly cognitively disabled.

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Our Business Continuity Plan addresses all areas affected by a business disruption of any type, including data backup and recovery; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with clients, employees and regulators; alternate physical location of employees; critical supplier, contractor and bank impact; and regulatory reporting.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

Micromanages the way that state accountability systems include students with disabilities, setting inflexible rules about how many students can take alternate assessments.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

These assessments include the Virginia Alternate Assessment Program, Virginia Grade Level Alternative, Virginia Substitute Evaluation Program and the Virginia Modified Achievement Standards Test.

Examining the participation of students in national and state assessments, including the use of accommodations and alternate assessments.

She has done much work on a national level on alternate assessments, including doing research for the National Alternate Assessment Center, assisting multiple state departments of education with improving their assessment systems, and serving as chairperson of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Inclusion and Accommodation in Educational Asalternate assessments, including doing research for the National Alternate Assessment Center, assisting multiple state departments of education with improving their assessment systems, and serving as chairperson of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Inclusion and Accommodation in Educational AsAlternate Assessment Center, assisting multiple state departments of education with improving their assessment systems, and serving as chairperson of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Inclusion and Accommodation in Educational Assessment.

Leila Williams, associate superintendent with the Arizona Department of Education, has worked closely with Karvonen, lead researcher on a longitudinal study of widely different alternate assessments in three states, including Arizona.

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In recent months, Education Week has published several articles that mention or highlight the Dynamic Learning Maps ™ (DLM ®) Alternate Assessment project, including a guest blog by Project Director Neal Kingston and a pair of stories on alternate assessment choices, implementation, and fieAlternate Assessment project, including a guest blog by Project Director Neal Kingston and a pair of stories on alternate assessment choices, implementation, and fiealternate assessment choices, implementation, and field tests.

Ms. LeFevre is also active in promoting «next generation» student - parent conferencing with alternate assessment / demonstration to engage and include all families in a student's learning journey.

State members who join ASES include special education directors, special education staff, and assessment staff who are responsible for alternate assessments.

And just as with the CAASPP exams, students with exceptional needs who take the approved exam must be provided with appropriate accommodations, or be administered the California Alternate Assessments, and English learners must be provided appropriate accommodations, including access to testing instruction in their primary language, bilingual glossaries and extended testing time.

The changes will include a stronger review process for future climate assessments and fuller inclusion of alternate scientific views and acknowledgment of scientific uncertainty and controversy.

Based on these assessments and our experience dealing with insurers, we develop strategies for clients that may include identification of risks and alternate sources of recovery, project planning, document collection and advice on mitigation steps.