Welcome
This Institute is again co-sponsored by the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities, the National Post-School Outcomes Center, and the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center with significant support from the IDEA Partnership at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education. The Institute will begin on the evening of May 18th and end by noon on May 21st.
The Institute’s purpose is to provide teams from States with professional development on school-completion strategies, other secondary transition education and services, and post-school outcome data collection and use within a continuous improvement process, including tools for analyzing data over time and across priorities. The intent of the Institute is to provide state teams with
(a) 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,
(b) knowledge of strategies for data collection, reporting, and use across SPP/APR Part B Indicators 1, 2, 13, and 14,
(c) a process for continuous improvement of capacity building for secondary education and services and
(d) opportunities to problem-solve with content resources and other state teams around issues that are encouraging or impeding progress to build capacity that will improve student outcomes.
The 2010 institute will provide professional development on capacity building strategies (i.e., data-based decision making, professional development, policy analysis and change, technical assistance) that may assist States as they implement and scale-up evidence-based interventions to improve school-completion and other secondary transition education and services, resulting in better post-school outcomes.
