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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

August 28, 2025

The Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) Instructionally Embedded fall window will open on September 8 for the 2025–2026 academic year. The Instruction and Assessment Planner is used to create instructional plans and assign testlets for students.

August 21, 2025

Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) manuals and guides have been updated for the 2025–2026 school year. Included in each manual and guide is a table of changes. Links to each manual and guide can be found on individual state pages on the DLM website.

DLM News

June 27, 2025

Montana has joined the DLM consortium as the eighth instructionally embedded state. With the addition of Montana, DLM alternate assessments serve students in 24 states. Montana students will take DLM assessments for English language arts, mathematics, and science.

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//

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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).