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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

DLM Instructionally Embedded Fall Window Now Open
September 22, 2022

The Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) Instructionally Embedded model fall window has opened for the 2022–2023 academic year. The Instruction and Assessment Planner is used to create instructional plans and assign testlets for students.

2023 Kite Student Portal Installers Release
July 20, 2022

We are happy to announce that the Kite® Student Portal app and installers for the 2023 school year are now available!

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DLM News

Science education experts review Essential Elements
October 28, 2022

ATLAS is bringing together special education and science education experts from around the country to review new drafts of science Essential Elements for the Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) alternate assessment.

Science education experts review Essential Elements

Dynamic Learning Maps Create Path to Success
October 20, 2021

An educator expert panel identified a range of postsecondary opportunities for students who meet the DLM achievement standards, including employment with wages and benefits similar to those without disabilities who perform the same work.

Dynamic Learning Maps Create Path to Success

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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).