1. Tools Parent Centers Can Use to Help Families with Secondary Transition Planning
Catherine Fowler, National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center
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2. Session Overview Families and Transition Planning
Legal/ Compliance Resources
Effective Practice Resources
Capacity Building Resources
Other Transition Planning Resources

3. Families and Student Success
Parental involvement correlated with in-school employment
Parent support and family engagement predictor of academic achievement
Parental encouragement predictor of mathematics achievement standardized test scores (SAT/ACT)

4. …Families and Student Success
Parents who participated in more IEP meetings during the 11th and 12th grade correlated with post-school employment
Students who had support from self-family-friend network to find a job were more likely to be engaged in post-school employment

5. …Families and Student Success
Students with positive perceptions of (a) their parents’ involvement in the IEP meeting, (b) activities parents involved them in to prepare them for postsecondary education, and (c) career and independent living skills parents taught them, correlated with higher postsecondary self-determination skills
NSTTAC; Center for the School of the Future; National Dropout Prevention Center; Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk; Morningstar and Colleagues, university of Kansas – from Super Table

6. Transition Education and Services
Taxonomy for Transition Programming
Guideposts for Success
School-Based Preparatory Experiences
Career Preparation & Work-Based Learning Experiences
Youth Development & Leadership
Connecting Activities
Family Involvement & Supports
NASET Standards & Quality Indicators
Schooling
Career Preparatory Experiences
Family Involvement

7. Transition Education and Services: Taxonomy for Transition Programming
IEP Development
Student Participation
Planning Strategies
STUDENT-FOCUSED PLANNING
FAMILY INVOLVEMENT
Family Training
Family Involvement
Family Empowerment
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
Life Skills Instruction
Employment Skills Instruction
Career & Vocational Curricula
Structured Work Experience
Assessment
Support Services
PROGRAM STRUCTURES
Program Philosophy
Program Policy
Strategic Planning
Program Evaluation
Resource Allocation
Human Resource Development
Breaks down from very general to specific practices
Collaborative Framework
Collaborative Service Delivery
INTERAGENCY COLLABORATION

8. When Does Transition Planning Begin? (hint: Cradle to Career)

9. Critical Relationship
Practices
Mandates
Post-School Outcomes
Contexts
adapted Kohler (NSTTAC), 2007 & Alverson (NPSO) 2011

10. Federal Requirements Regional Resource Center Program resources
National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center resources
Parent Training and Information Center Resources
Other TA&D Network Resources

11. Critical Relationship
Staying in school
(Indicator 2)
Quality IEPs
(Indicator 13)
Positive post-school outcomes
(Indicator 14)
Graduating
(Indicator 1)
Kohler (NSTTAC), 2007

12. Seattle University - Center for Change in Transition Services, 2010

13. Federal Requirements Compliance Legislation
Federal reporting requirements
What’s on the horizon?

14. Evidence-Based Practices (NSTTAC)
Evidence Based Practice Descriptions
Lesson Plan Starters
Predictor Tables
Annotated Bibliographies
DCDT Fact Sheets

15. Broad Definitions Are based on rigorous research designs
(Helsel, Hitchcock, Miller, Malinow, & Murray, 2006; Twyman, 2008)
Evidence-Based Practices
Are based on rigorous research designs
Have demonstrated a record of success for improving student outcomes
Have undergone systematic review process using quality indicators to evaluate level of evidence
Research-Based Practices
Promising Practices
Are based on research
Have demonstrated limited success
Have used a ‘weak’ research design
Unestablished Practices
Are not based on research
Have no data to support effectiveness
Based on anecdotal evidence and/or professional judgment
When considering whether a strategy or program is evidence-based, we have to rely on the “best available evidence.”
So how to we do this is their is limited or no research evidence available?....

16. Evidence Based Practices (other)
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities,
National Autism Center,
IRIS Center,
What Works Clearinghouse,

17. Capacity Building
Predictor Implementation Self-Assessment,
Presenter Guides,
Toolkits,
Crosswalk of Taxonomy for Transition Programming, Guideposts, and NASET Standards

18. Capacity Building
Personnel Development Guides,
Team Planning Tool Samples,
Products in development: 101s and “Just In Time” resources

19. Capacity Building
National Post-School Outcomes Center’s Data Use Toolkit,
IDEA Partnership Tools,
Secondary Transition Collection
P-16/20 In the Pipeline Resources
Creating Agreement Collection
National Dropout Prevention Center,
Fantastic Tools from Individual States

20. Additional Transition Planning Resources
NSTTAC,
Family Center on Technology and Disability – Assistive Technology and Transition,
PEPNet,
TATRA, ,

21. Additional Transition Planning Resources
NICHCY,
More neat resources from States!

22. What Will You Do With These?
Think, pair, share – take 5 minutes
Uses
Adaptations
What do you have to share?

23. Follow-Up
Catherine Fowler, Project Coordinator, NSTTAC, NSTTAC Principle Investigators: Paula Kohler, Larry Kortering, David Test,