From: HYDE AMY
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 2:19 PM
Subject: FW: Common Core and Special Education Guidance Document

Please find the following sent on behalf of Dave Andel…

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Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and Common Core State Standard (CCSS) Alignment

The Illinois State Board of Education’s adoption of new, more rigorous learning standards for Math and English Language Arts, known as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), creates a need for changes to the goals section of students’ Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

The Special Education Division has created a guidance document to assist districts and cooperatives in aligning to the grade level CCSS, ensuring that students have access to the grade level general education curriculum, thereby facilitating appropriate instruction and learning of grade level content as measured through state and district wide assessments.  For this document, please see http://www.isbe.net/spec-ed/pdfs/guidance-ccss.pdf.