1. MAISD Transition Campus Work Based Learning Evaluation; Our Journey
Susan L. Mack
Pamela Davison

2. About MAISD Transition
Transition Campus for students ages 18 to 26 with moderate cognitive impairments from 12 school districts in Muskegon County

3. About MAISD Transition
Originally five satellite classrooms around the county
Used the MATS (bus) system to travel from classroom to classroom
Three to four staff and approximately students per satellite classroom
Classrooms leveled based on Independence

4. Vision Statement
Support all transition students to be as independent as possible in community, vocation and home life settings by building skills in: self advocacy, communication, relationships and safety awareness.

5. All together
All five classrooms moved to one location in school year with some resistance.
Five different ways of teaching students
Five different ways of dealing with student behaviors
Five different levels of student independence

6. Our Program All students go to job sites
Typically, 1 job coach with 2 students
Job sites are divided into 3 levels;
Work Exploration
Work Based Learning
Independent Vocational Training
Classes are now departmentalized
Our main goal is to develop independence in Job Skills, Daily Living, Self Determination, Community Participation

7. Work Based Learning We have 37 job sites 12 job coaches
Food Service
Janitorial
Retail
Factory/Assembly
Office
Humane Society
12 job coaches
1 WBL Coordinator
4 nine week rotations a year

8. Old Work Based Learning Evaluations
Historically
Coaches filled evals in once/week
Teachers created job goals
Subjective
Job specific
Anecdotal

9. Supporting Skill Development and Behavior

10. 2015/16 Changes in Program PLC
Six Teachers
One Administrator
Student Services Coordinator
Three Job Coaches
Set out to develop a new Transition Campus Systems, Practices, Data

11. Professional Learning Community
September 2015 – December 2015
Visited five different Transition Programs around the State
Gathered information
Took a lot of pictures
Presented on sites to rest of staff

12. Professional Learning Community
January 2016 to March 2016
Broke into groups Work Based Learning
Daily Living
Self Determination
Community Participation
March, April and May created the MAISD Skills Inventory
May 2016 received Board Approval

13. Final Product

14. Focus Areas Employment Daily Living Self Determination
Community Participation

15. Based On Prompts toward Independence

16. Rubric

17. Employment Section for Teachers

20. One Problem – Teachers Don’t Attend Job Site to Take Data and Old WBL Data Doesn’t Provide Correct Information

21. Google Forms to the Rescue

31. Next Steps Adding Google Sheets

32. Adding Google Sheets

33. New Graph

34. New Graph – How to use data?

35. Present Sheet

36. Beginning and End Summary WBL Data

37. Interpersonal

38. Task Completion

39. Time Skills/Work Prep

40. Problem Solving

41. Safety

42. Future Considerations
Change Job Coach forms to numbers
Comparison between job sites
Teach Teachers how to build specific graphs

43. Thank you for attending
Questions?