Welcome to IDEA Partnership's Collaborative Work on Secondary Transition: The NSTTAC Evidence-based Project

The IDEA Partnership is dedicated to improving outcomes for students and youth with disabilities by joining state agencies and stakeholders through shared work and learning. The materials and tools in The Partnership Users Guide to the NSTTAC Evidence-based Collection are the result of the collaborative work of partner organization representatives, technical assistance providers, and a number of state and local organizations and agencies to provide efficient access to and use of the NSTTAC Evidence-based Collection. Members of this Best Practices in Secondary Transition collaborative workgroup represent a range of roles at all levels of the education system as well as coming from geographic locations from across the United States. Together with the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), these partners form a community with the potential to transform the way we work.

The Partnership Users Guide to the NSTTAC Evidence-based Collection

This collaborative collection is designed to assist you in learning more about Secondary Transition Evidence-based Practices for its implementation on all levels-- federal, state, and local. The following are tools designed to guide both your tour through this site and ideas for application and resources:Our Charge is to think about Secondary Transition from stakeholder perspectives at all knowledge levels, to look at things differently, and to speak to practical application by taking the ideas of researchers and making them tangible to those in the field.

• Our Goal is to provide you with access to a comprehensive collection of materials and resources to assist you in furthering understanding of Secondary Transition Evidence-based Practices. We hope this collection complements your current work, and we encourage you to share it with your colleagues and peers.

   

• Our Partner Grounding Assumptions
  This document describes the fundamental assumptions that ground the implementation of the Secondary Transition requirements in federal law (NCLB SEC. 1001 (2)) and IDEA 2004 [34 CFR 300.1 (a)] [20 U.S.C. 1400(d)(1)(A)]

   

• Our Guiding Principles
  This provides the unifying beliefs that are the foundation for our collaborative efforts on secondary transition. You might want to share these among the groups with whom you work to build a common sense of purpose.

   

• Secondary Transition Terminology
  This is a glossary of key terms and acronyms associated with secondary transition.

   

• Community of Practice Essential Elements
  This document describes the characteristics that define a community of practice (CoP) on Secondary Transition with shared work around NSTTAC Evidence-based practices.

• Secondary Transition Resource Directory

  This document provides descriptions of federally-supported projects and centers that focus on youth transition.
  

• NSTTAC Fact Sheet on Evidence-based Practices in Secondary Transition
  This fact sheet describes the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC), evidence-based practices, and resources available to practitioners in the community.
  
  

• Best Practices in Secondary Transition: Accessing and Using the NSTTAC Evidence-based Collection

• Presenter’s Guide: Best Practices in Secondary Transition: Accessing and Using the NSTTAC Evidence-based Collection
  This Presenter’s Guide is intended to support the PowerPoint slides and offers:

  • Suggested background readings;

  • Talking points relative to each slide;

  • Suggested activities to enhance learning opportunities for Participants;

  • Tips to facilitate the professional growth experience; and

  • Suggested readings for extension of learning.

  The three distinct sections of preparation, presentation/process, and supplementary materials makes this guide easy to use and anticipates needs common to most presentations for a variety of audiences.
  

Dialogue Guides for NSTTAC Secondary Transition Project

Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences in States and districts. In this manner, stakeholders all over the country can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues.

• Functional Life Skills

• Social/Communication Interventions and Transition Outcomes

• Transition Planning

• Self-Determination

Click on the link above to find dialogue guides on four topics in the NSTTAC Evidence-based Collection Secondary Transition topics.

Your Voice

Your experiences help the Partnership and our readers understand issues and perspectives. Please take a minute to share:

• Your secondary transition initiative and the strategies involved

• What strategies are working and reasons for success

• What problems (barriers) you have encountered and how they were solved

• How you promote secondary transition across groups and organizations.

To help us understand how the Partnership collection on the Secondary Transition
NSTTAC Evidence-based Project is useful, please take a minute to share:

• How you used the collection

• Your reactions to the collection

• Your ideas for improving the collection

If you are willing to be interviewed about the collection, please provide your email address.
Thank you
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