What We’ve Done & Where We’re Going – May 14, 2018

You were asked to work with your team to report progress on the following…1. Gathering state level data (Indicator 1, 2, 13, & 14 data, PreETS services, VR

performance measures, professional development data, family engagement data)

2. Analyzing state level data to determine areas of need across Districts/Schools, VR and other community

3. Prioritizing state level needs

4. Developing State Capacity Building Plan (measurable goals, activities, persons responsible)

5. Implementing State Capacity Building Plan according to proposed timeline

6. Reviewing or analyzing data on an ongoing basis and make adjustments to State Capacity Building Plan

7. Communicating findings with school staff, VR staff students, families, and other stakeholders at regular intervals

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Let’s hear from states!!!!

• State slides are in no particular order

• States received a number when Dawn received them via email

• Used a random number generator to determine slot in slide deck ☺

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• Goal: Increase LEA access and implementation of transition services across all educational levels.

• Challenge: Our ST compliance rate is not where we want it.

• Resolutions:

– Lowered ST planning age to 14

– Secondary Transition training blitz

– Special Education Enhancement Fund (formula and competitive)

• Gain from CBI:

– Assistance with developing a streamlined, interagency push for student/people centered programming from existing efforts (e.g., Student-led IEPs, Voices of Change Conference, DC Youth Leadership Networks, and the PIE Grant People Planning Together for Employment curriculum)

• Value of CBI:

– Learn what other states are doing

– Access to national experts and valuable resources

District of Columbia: A Year Later

North Dakota❖ NTACT Intensive Technical Assistance State

• Tied to our State Systemic Improvement Plan

• Development & Scale-up of EBPPs

• 6 districts and 3 VR regions

❖ Active Transition Communities of Practice

• Education, VR, Parents, Private/Community Providers, Social Service/Health/Medical Agencies

❖ State Systemic Improvement Plan- Increasing the 6-Year Graduation Rate of Students with Emotional Disabilities

Emphasis on improving instruction and supports that increase Student Engagement

9.8% Increase over our baseline

❖ State with Highest Percentage of People with Disabilities in Employment- 54% (2017 Disability Statistics Annual Report- U.S. Dept. of Labor)

❖ Amongst the States with the Highest Earnings (2017 Disability Statistics Annual Report- U.S. Dept. of Labor)

OHIOPROGRAM STRUCTURES

WE WILL ALIGN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ACROSS AGENCIES TO:

• ENGAGE FAMILIES; AND

• BETTER ADDRESS GAPS AND REDUCE DUPLICATION OF TRANSITION

SERVICES

Sharing and Comparing Data Across Agencies

Collaborative Training on

Transition Planning for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Vocational Rehabilitation

Division of Developmental

Disabilities

AZ Department of Education

Secondary Transition

Other AZCoPT Support

Maine – the way life should be

• Goal: more student involvement with their

transition planning

• Completed 43 face to face PD trainings

with local districts on appropriate

transition planning

• Provided transition assessment

resources to each district to support

student involvement and planning for

better post-secondary outcomes

• Improvement on Indicator 13 has moved

from 63 % to 97% in the past three years

• Moving forward: Increasing enrollment in to

CTE programs - employment and job skills

• Translating Evidence for Successful

Transition (TEST)

Utah’s 2017 Plan• Goal: Increase our capacity to provide Pre-ETS services to potentially eligible students

state wide from 459 students to 918 by August 2018.

• Outcome: By May 2018 Pre-ETS services were provided to ___ potentially eligible students through Pre-ETS contacts.

• Challenges: • Providing Pre-ETS to rural areas• Developing contracts with LEAs and IHEs• Transportation in rural areas

• Resolution:• Provide LEAs/IHEs with examples of Pre-ETS programs• Assist LEAs/IHEs in developing scope of work and contract • Allow more time to meet and plan Pre-ETS pilots

• CBI Topic:• Pre-ETS ideas for rural areas

• CBI Value: • We have a bigger and more diverse team this year and hope to develop more goals for our state • Networking with other states on Pre-ETS, School-To-Work, and Indicator 13

Goal: Establish a baseline of the number of students across the state ofAlabama who participate in the IEP meetings.Challenges/Barriers: Our challenge was the task of identifying the actualnumber of students who attended their IEP Team meeting. Alabama has 137local education agencies (LEAs). In order to access this data, each LEA wouldneed to be queried separately. With reassignment of some staff after the CBIplan was written and other responsibilities of the Transition Team, this was abarrier that we were not able to overcome. However, we were able to get asampling of data on types of participation through completion of educator,parent, and student surveys.Resolution: We will continue working on this goal, but adjust our tasks tocontinue to gather sample data through the developed surveys.Topics/Answers/Resources We Hope to Gain: We hope to continue toreceive the wonderful professional development and technical assistancethat the Capacity Building Institute always provides.Why We Are Back: We have returned for the following reasons: dedicatedtime to plan, professional development opportunities, technical assistance,interactions with other states.

Maryland

Goal: Determine shared message/vision related to secondary transition services across state agencies by August 30, 2018 to improve the state-level coordination of transition services, improving outcomes for students and youth with disabilities in Maryland.

Challenge/Barrier/Issue: State agencies traditionally working in silos

Topic/Resource to gain from CBI: TA/facilitators support and focus to move the work forward

Value of CBI: Networking with other states and valuable time to work together as a team

One of Our Goals as an Intensive State:• By June 2018, we will increase, above baseline, the number of teachers, VR,

and adult service providers with knowledge of effective collaboration and the CIRCLES process by using the following resources and material: CIRCLES training, including related resources and materials, and TA support.

• Arkansas began CIRCLES implementation with one of our District Leadership teams – bring on the CLTs, SLTs and more districts!

• Barriers encountered – TIME (of course)!

• Successes –jobs for students – one offered full time job at Farm Supply and another offered a job at a daycare and they will pay for Child Development Associate Credential; student in poor health is able to obtain Waiver services to help him and his parents, interviews with Project Search and last, but not least… a student at risk of DROPPING OUT…GRADUATED!

• The opportunity for our team to discuss CIRCLES further and learn from the teams who have already implemented AND To help other states become interested in implementing CIRCLES!

Hawaii Department of Education

• Implementation Plan 2017-2020: School Design – High Leverage Action Item • Define/deliver quality college and career

pathway counseling/transition advisory supports.

• Progress – tentative determination is 8 of 14 on the rubric.• Single SEA/LEA = single capacity building plan• Pockets of implementation vs. uniform

implementation

• Hope to gain • Lessons learned by other states about

• Cross-agency collaboration and coordination of supports

• School-level communications of results to families and other stakeholders

Nevada ITAP Goal #1: Increase the number of students with disabilities

participating in BVR programs that provide Pre-ETS to 2,000 by 7/1/18.

Barrier:

Providing Pre-ETS to students who are primarily in general education classes

Progress toward Goal #1 (strategies):

1. Innovative Pre-ETS delivery (Saturday & summer camp pilots)

2. BVR/CTE flyers in use at every middle & high school IEP meeting

3. Interagency & cross-disciplinary trainings

Progress toward Goal #1 (numbers):

1. 1,662/38/68

2. 32,831

3. 316

Iowa’s Goal: Integrate Secondary Transition into Iowa’s

Differentiated Accountability (Results Based Accountability)

More connections to make More time it takes

● Changed B13 & B14 data

collection processes

● Aligned district support levels

with ESSA

● Connecting self-assessments

and district supports with DA

Goal for CBI- Identify all the moving parts

and solidify plan for DE work

Goal: Enhance Youth Voice - Create A Youth

Advisory Board

Student PanelsMember of Planning Team

Presenters

COP CORE Team Retreat

Youth Advisory Board Group

Youth Participation

YLF delegates annually connected to Youth Advisory

Board

Transition Symposium

COP Practice Group

Youth Leadership

Forum

RHODE ISLAND

PRE AND POST INDICATOR 13 QUALITY RUBRIC

We will increase districts’ knowledge of transition practices to engage middle school educators PRE & POST

• Goal – To increase districts, family, and student knowledge of how to align postsecondary goals with the pathway to graduation by ensuring ALL students have access to CTE programs of study matching their interests.

• Progress –• Proposal for the PIPEline to Success for SWD is finalized.• Funding has been secured from partner agencies. • Pilot LEAs have been selected.• Pre-ETS programming is assisting with broadening the

knowledge of students and families in aligning courses of study

• Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction will be implemented beginning with the 18-19 SY

• Challenge – Dissemination of information to families• Working with Parent Information Center and other agencies

and councils to assist with getting information to families

West Virginia GRADUATION 20/20

Goal: Increase graduation rate- Indicator 1

Decrease dropout rate- Indicator 2

Progress: Graduation Rate- 59.9% in 2012 to 75.6% in 2017

Dropout Rate- 1.7% in 2012 to 0.9% in 2017

Challenge: Infrastructure/Systems Change-

Regional Delivery

Resolution: Infrastructure/Systems Change-

Local Delivery- TransitionTechnical Assistance Center

Topic: Stakeholders/Collaboration and Communication-

Parent Engagement

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Colorado

Goal: Interagency and Intra-agency Collaboration

• Improve the state-level interagency agreement between CDE and DVR

• Increase CDE stakeholders’ awareness of the graduation needs for students with disabilities

Challenges/Barriers

• Change

• Special Education has not always been at the table

Resolution

• Relationship building

• Data supports the fact that SWD are impacting graduation rates

ISBE provides quality TA to

Districts

School Staff write quality transition

plans

Students graduate employment and

career ready

Our Goal…Our Plan…

Our Progress…

Increase districts’ use of Evidence-Based and Promising Practices (EBPP)

▪ Provided face to face Indicator 13 and EBPP trainings to Districts randomly selected for review

▪ Provided EBPP sessions at annual Special Education Directors conference

Our Challenge…

Provide Support to 852 School Districts

TRANSITIONTENNESSEE

• Goal: Develop policies and guidance to provide a consistent message and focus for districts and schools throughout Tennessee

• Free, online professional development portal

• Eight topic areas

• Videos & downloadable resources

• Online assessment database

• Searchable community partners

• Quizzes to document PD

• Regional communities of practice

• District-level technical assistance

• Transition conference reboot coming in 2019

• Monthly webcasts and e-newsletters

• Companion site for VR and their contracts

• Data-driven development and evaluation

3,300+

users

FAMILY LEAs Local COP

TeachersAcademic

CTE

Counselors

CA DOR Community College

University

TransitionPartnership

DDS/ RC

NEA/CTA

CA TransitionAlliance

CA PromiseAdult ED Health

Social Services

CA CareerResources

Diagnostic Center

Community

SELPAWorkAbility

Special Education

Structure of Capacity Building in California

Shared Projects: Capacity Building: Tools, Resources Training, Webinars

Share Same Message with Diverse MessengersCurrent Projects

Bridge to the Future Secondary Transition InstitutesHigh School Diploma Workgroup

Competitive Integrated Employment BlueprintLocal Partnership Agreements

Non-Profit Organization

Effective collaboration between students, families, secondary and post-secondary educators, rehabilitation counselors, and service providers toward quality and

quantity of transition activities and pre-employment transition services.

➢ Many pre-ets opportunities areexpanding in Idaho, but we are lacking the communication and collaboration needed to connect students & programs

➢ Idaho will host our “first in a while”statewide transition institute in November 2018 with the theme: “MAKING CONNECTIONS”

➢ Regular team communication anddistracted accomplishment of annual plan tasks

➢ Scheduled monthly Zoom meetingshave helped us connect from a distance

and achieve most of our 2017 plan

➢ Being a “local control” state we areinterested in learning a better pathway to a

statewide SEA/VR agreement as opposed to in-efficient instances of multiple LEA/VR agreements

Because it’s an INSTITUTE not just a conference! ➢ Consistent teamwork➢ Valuable planning tools & expert support➢ Accountability of yearly & mid-year

check-ins

What’s Happening in New York!!• Goal: Create and implement strategies to embed

transition into general education and special education as a unified system.

• Challenges: Siloed communication structures and stakeholders; Need to move rapidly to improve outcomes.

• Resolution: Developed and shared resources to inform stakeholders regarding quality and compliance in transition IEPs. Developed PD sessions linking transition to other areas of state need (e.g., adjudicated youth, academic outcomes, LRE). Cross walked State Blueprint document with predictors and Taxonomy 2.0.

• Resources to gain: What works to achieve Indicator 13 Compliance in states with large city schools?

Vermont

Goal: To build upon excitingstate level transition and pathway initiatives and expand interagency collaboration; incorporate learning from other states.

Challenge: Real change is hard. We need effective strategies to affect personal and institutional behavior.

Resource to be gained from CBI:Interagency strategic plan; on-going TA

What is the value of CBI: Time for teamwork and networking with others

Florida• Goal: We will increase collaboration between VR and

LEAs regarding Pre-ETS which will address Job Exploration Counseling, Work Readiness Training, Self-Advocacy Training and Peer Mentoring, Postsecondary Educational Counseling and Work-Based Learning Experience.

• Tasks: Develop SEA State Agency Memo of Agreement (MOA); Share SEA MOA with districts; Develop template for LEAs to develop MOA; Create a cross-agency statewide longitudinal data report to include all relevant transition education and services data (DOE, DBS, VR); Implementation of SEA MOA; Implementation of LEA MOAs

• Progress: Developed an SEA Agency Memo of Agreement

• Barrier: Time-Awaiting final approval and signatures

• What we hope to gain by the end of the CBI: • A new 5 year Secondary Transition Strategic Plan

Draft • Practical ideas for assisting LEAs with local

implementation

OREGONGoal: 36 regional trainings

with Education, VR, and DD in

2018

Progress:

As of

May 11th

Challenge: Trainings underway and

no evaluation complete

Resolution: NTACT TA

Help is on the way

What do we want to learn?

Increase

TEA and TWC MOU

TWC and ESC Initiatives

E-Learning

Extended Learning and Follow-up

Texas Transition Conference

Texas

Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network

Goal/Focus Update

Annual Community on Transition

Conference

PlanningToday for a Winning Tomorrow,

July 25-27, 2018

Embrace the opportunities provided by

WIOA for collaboration

Experience the Employment Connection

Cross agency trainings

Special Education Performance Grants –

focus on competitive integrated

employment

Increase LEA understanding of legislation

impacting secondary transition

Multi-Agency

Webinar

Differentiated Indicator 13 Training Online modules w pre/post & checklist

Self Assessment

TAC onsite training and coaching