The 3rd Annual Secondary Transition State Planning Institute May 12th – 14th, 2009 Hilton University Place Charlotte, North Carolina

• National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD)
• National Post-School Outcomes Center (NPSO)
• National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC)
• In conjunction with the IDEA Partnership at NASDSE’s Community of Practice on Transition annual meeting

PURPOSE

Provide professional development on school-completion strategies (NDPC-SD), other secondary transition education and services (NSTTAC), and post-school outcome data collection and use (NPSO) within a continuous improvement process, including tools for analyzing data over time and across priorities.

OBJECTIVES

The intent of the Institute is to provide state teams with

1. content knowledge on enhancing effective secondary transition program, including school completion, intervention and implementation strategies to improve post-school outcomes, through work with content resources from national centers, research institutions, and other states,
2. knowledge of strategies for data collection, reporting, and use across SPP/APR Part B Indicators 1, 2, 13, and 14,
3. a process for continuous improvement of capacity building for secondary education and services and
4. opportunities to problem-solve with content resources and other state teams around issues that are encouraging or impeding progress in their plans to build capacity that will improve student outcomes.

PARTICIPANTS

• State teams- focusing on a team representing coordinated Indicator work including the following
• State Education Agency personnel (e.g., career/ technical education, dropout prevention, high school improvement, monitoring, secondary education, special education)
• Vocational Rehabilitation personnel
• other adult services (e.g. mental health)
• parents
• students, young adults
• institutes of higher education (i.e., pre-service teacher training, disability services)
• local district or school representatives (e.g., administrators or practitioners).
• State teams should be committed to working through the structured activities of the Institute, and using the materials of the Institute

CONTENT

The second collaborative Building for the Future State Planning Institute will provide

1. content around common areas of need identified through analysis of state plans developed during the Institute in May, 2008 as well as through analysis of SPP/APR data, and requests for technical assistance from NDPC-SD, NPSO Center, and NSTTAC,
2. facilitated planning time for states, and
3. opportunities for cross state sharing.

The Institute’s hybrid model will frame content sessions, team planning, and state sharing in the context of the Part B SPP/APR Indicators closely associated with secondary transition (e.g., 1, 2, 13, & 14) using the framework of the secondary intervention strategies delineated in the Taxonomy for Transition Programming (Kohler, 1996) (i.e., student-focused planning, student development, interagency collaboration, family involvement, program structures) and four implementation/ capacity building strategies (i.e., data-based decision making, professional development, policy analysis and change, technical assistance).