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Dynamic Learning Maps® Alternate Assessment

We provide an instructionally relevant assessment and report assessment results to help guide instruction.

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Test Updates

March 6, 2025

The Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) spring assessment window opens on March 10, 2025, for Year-End model states. Please consult individual state pages on the DLM website for state-specific testing dates as testing windows vary by state. 

February 20, 2025

The Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) program is seeking middle and high school teachers of students with significant cognitive disabilities to participate in a Needs Assessment Survey on current practices and needs for teaching academics related to postsecondary opportunities.

DLM News

February 4, 2025

Did you know that ATLAS' own Karen Erickson is a lead editor & author of Readtopia? It is aligned with DLM Essential Elements in ELA and mathematics. You can request free units to try with your students.

https://www.buildingwings.com/readtopia//

February 1, 2024

DLM Familiar Text lesson plans are now available for teachers to use during instruction. Each plan includes a familiar text and focuses on early symbolic communication. These plans help students identify objects, express personal preferences, and respond to “Yes” or “No” questions during shared reading. This is important for students who are completing DLM testlets at the Initial Precursor linkage level.

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High Expectations for Student Success

This video outlines four keys to academic success for students with significant cognitive disabilities and highlights a few postsecondary opportunities for students taking the DLM alternate assessment. The contents of the video were developed from an ATLAS study on how DLM academic achievement standards prepare students to pursue postsecondary opportunities (pdf).

This video outlines four keys to academic success for students with significant cognitive disabilities and highlights a few postsecondary opportunities for students taking the DLM alternate assessment. The contents of the video were developed from an ATLAS study on how DLM academic achievement standards prepare students to pursue postsecondary opportunities (pdf).

Parents: Learn more about how to build high expectations for your child’s life after high school in A Future of Opportunity (pdf).