Federal law requires appropriate measurable postsecondary goals based upon age-appropriate transition assessments related to training, education, employment, and, where appropriate, independent living skills. The contents of this guide respond to that requirement and cover: (a) What is transition assessment?; (b) Why conduct transition assessments?; (c) How do I select instruments?; (d) How do I conduct an age-appropriate transition assessment?; (e) sample instruments; (e) informal assessment; (f) formal assessment; and (g) informative links to podcasts and other sources of information.  (The National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center operates from UNC at Charlotte, Western ...

A Transition Institute is a capacity-building approach that integrates professional development, data-based decision making, technical assistance, and strategic planning through a collaborative process.  This Toolkit was developed to help State and local community teams design, plan, and implement a Transition Institute.  It includes descriptions of essential components of the Transition Institute Model, with detailed checklists and resources for use in planning your institute.  (NSTTAC is a project of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in partnership with Western Michigan University and Appalachian State University.  NSTTAC is funded by the U.S. Department ...

This guide is written to support Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) project directors as they form partnerships with school administrators to implement SS/HS project activities in schools.  Drawing on lessons learned from SS/HS implementation sites, this guide provides project directors with strategies that can be used to engage school administrators and enhance their commitment to the SS/HS initiative.  (The National Center for MH Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention is a project of the Education Development Center Inc in Newton, Massachusetts.  Its goal is to provide technical assistance and training to school districts and communities that receive grants from the U.S. ...

This Toolkit will assist transition educators and service providers to improve their programs and services by determining what is working, what is not working, and what needs changing or replicating.   It is designed to help you determine what is important to your stakeholders, what needs to be measured to satisfy stakeholders, what is feasible to measure, how to measure these items, and how to report your findings. (NSTTAC is a project of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in partnership with Western Michigan University and Appalachian State University.  NSTTAC is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs.)