{"id":810,"date":"2017-05-23T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/?page_id=810"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T20:11:06","slug":"recent-webinar-on-considerations-for-state-defined-alternate-diplomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/june-2017\/recent-webinar-on-considerations-for-state-defined-alternate-diplomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Webinar on Considerations for State-Defined Alternate Diplomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"NCEO and the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT) hosted a webinar on state-defined alternate diplomas for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. This webinar began with a discussion of what the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) says about the state-defined alternate diploma, followed by some considerations for states that are exploring whether to offer a state-defined alternate assessment. The webinar included steps for states that decide to offer this option:<\/p>\n

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  1. Define the meaning of \u201cstate-defined alternate diploma\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Examine policy adjustments that need to be made to incorporate the State-defined alternate diploma into current educational policies<\/li>\n
  3. Determine the course and exit exam requirements that will align with those requirements for the regular diploma<\/li>\n
  4. Revise assessment participation requirements to ensure that only those students with the most significant cognitive disabilities participate in alternate exit exams to earn a State-defined alternate diploma<\/li>\n
  5. Provide professional development to promote access to the general curriculum and opportunity to learn for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The information presented in this webinar was based on a Brief, Considerations<\/em> for Developing State Defined Alternate Diplomas for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities<\/em><\/a>, which was recently published jointly by NCEO and NTACT.<\/p>\n

    The PowerPoint slides for the webinar are available at http:\/\/nceo.umn.edu\/docs\/Presentations\/StateDefinedAltDiplomas.pdf <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    NCEO and the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT) hosted a webinar on state-defined alternate diplomas for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. This webinar began with a discussion of what the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) says about the state-defined alternate diploma, followed by some considerations for states that are exploring whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":806,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810\/revisions\/847"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nceotacenter.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}