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Welcome to the National Center and State Collaborative Wiki!

The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) is a project led by five centers and 24 states, building an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The shared goal of the NCSC project is 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 wiki and the materials hosted here help educators accomplish the NCSC goals by supporting instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The materials on the wiki can also be used in states that are not using the CCSS. Much of the content that is covered on the wiki will also appear in other Mathematics and English Language Arts state 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.

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.