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Welcome to the National Center and State Collaborative Wiki!
The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) was a project led by five centers and 24 states, building an alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The shared goal of the NCSC partners was to ensure that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options. The goal of the NCSC partners has been carried forward through the Multi-State Alternate Assessment (MSAA). The wiki and the materials hosted here help educators accomplish the NCSC/MSAA goals by supporting instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as well as many other state content standards.
Wiki Resources
- Curriculum Resources - What to Teach; Curriculum Resources are reference materials created to reinforce educators' understanding of curriculum content (found in the top half of the resource schema below)
- Instructional Resources - How to Teach; Instructional Resources are reference materials created to support classroom teaching (found in the bottom half of the resource schema below)
- Educator Professional Development and Parent Resources – Presentations and interactive modules designed to supplement written NCSC materials as well as written summaries about the NCSC project, explore teaching and learning for students with significant cognitive disabilities, and provide broad coverage of topics of interest to educators and parents alike.
- Parent Tips and Tools - These documents include a one page wiki navigation tool and a more detailed wiki navigation guide. In addition, there is a wiki tips series, made up of eight short documents, that helps parents use the resource materials.
- Sample Items - The Sample Items presentation describes the NCSC Alternate Assessment Design and provides examples of English Language Arts and Mathematics items .
- Communication Tool Kit - The National Center and State Collaborative developed the Communication Tool Kit as a professional development resource for teachers and speech language pathologists serving students with disabilities who do not or do not yet use oral speech. This series of seven modules and an introductory Call to Action identifies the important features of high quality communication intervention. Communication intervention is essential for students who currently do not use oral speech and do not have regularized communication systems to access the general curriculum in school. Professional development certificates are available for participants upon completion of the series.
Quick Links
- All Resources - Browse curriculum and instruction resources in the wiki by category (CCCs, Element Cards, Content Modules, etc)
- NCSC Partners - Parent Resources - The NCSC Partners website includes a wealth of information available to parents and interested others. The resources referenced on this site include summaries, explanations and descriptions of work related to the NCSC project. These topics of this work include: NCSC Project Descriptions, Curriculum and Instructional Resources, Alternate Assessment, IEP Team Guidance for Participation in Alternate Assessment, College and Career Readiness for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Communicative Competence, and tools for sharing NCSC information.
- NCSC Partners - Visit ncscpartners.org for more information about the National Center and State Collaborative.
- The SCHEMA for Common Core State Standards Resources
- The graphic below presents the relationships between Curriculum and Instructional Resources developed in the NCSC grant. Click on the name of a resource to access further information in the wiki.
For full size image of the schema above, click here.
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The contents of this website were developed as part of the National Center and State Collaborative under a grant from the US Department of Education (PR/Award #: H373X100002), Project Officer, Susan.Weigert@Ed.gov. However, the contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Education and no assumption of endorsement by the Federal government should be made.
CONDITIONS OF USE: Although materials developed under the NCSC Federal grant cited below are free for use by all, no secondary products or services making use of these materials by unaffiliated vendors or groups have been reviewed or endorsed by NCSC.
If a 3rd party group or vendor makes use of these NCSC resources in any products or services, the products or services must:
- Credit the NCSC Project with developing the resources under a Federal grant, publicly available at https://wiki.ncscpartners.org/index.php/Main_Page noting that the group or vendor is unaffiliated with the NCSC Project; and
- Include a disclaimer that the NCSC Project partners did not review or endorse the unaffiliated group/vendor application of the resources.
