The Special Education Services Section of the Alabama State Department of Education offered a series of five virtual, professional learning opportunities as part of the SPDG grant to improve transition outcomes for students with disabilities and their parents in planning, implementing, and evaluating transition projects.
Materials for each of the training events were provided as resources for all to share.
Transition Training #1
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Training Title: Transition Assessment: The Building Blocks to Compliant Transition Planning
Presenters: Dr. Kendra Williams-Diehm & Dr. Malorie Deardorff, Zarrow Institute
Training material used for presentation:
Transition Training #2
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Training Title: Facilitating Student Work Experiences
Presenter: Mr. Sean Roy, TransCen Inc.
- Establishing Employment as the Preferred Outcome of Transition Services – TransCent (Zoom Recording) Passcode Required – Zoom Passcode: e12$Gb8j
Training materials used during presentation:
- Alabama SPDG Virtual Transition TCI 2023
- Life Course Tools Portfolio Planning Employment
- I’m Determined Goal Plan Template
- TransCen Employment Process Resource Guide
Transition Training #3
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Training Title: Stepping Up Transition from Compliance to QUALITY
Presenters: Dr. Kendra Williams-Diehm & Dr. Malarie Deardorff, Zarrow Institute
Training materials used during presentation:
Transition Training #4:
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Training Title: Educate, Collaborate, and Engage Families and Students as Transition Partners
Presenters: Ms. Judy Averill, Ms. Lisa Holland, & Ms. Kendel St. John, Virginia Commonwealth University
Training materials used during presentation:
- Welcome & Getting to Know You
- Work-based Learning K-12- Helping Students Discover their Future
- Discovering Me! Part 1
- Discovering Me! Part 2
- Accessing High Quality Online Transition-Related Resources
- Parents as Partners in Transition Planning
- Increasing Student Involvement in Transition Planning
- Discovering Me Implementation Guide
- DME Guide Interviewing Those Who Know Me Year One
- DME Guide 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills
- Workplace Readiness Toolkit
- 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills for the Commonwealth
- Career Development Activities
Transition Training #5
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
Training Title: Transition-It’s Not All About Heroes, Holidays, and Food
Presenters: Dr. June Gothberg-Yang Tan Institute on Employment & Disability & Dr. Gary Greene, Professor Emeritus in Special Education, California State University
Training materials used during presentation:
- Gothberg and Greene Video 5.11.23
- Culturally Linguistically Diverse Transition – It’s Not Just All About Heroes, Holidays, and Food (PPT)
- Article by Gothberg, Greene, and Kohler
- Transition Education and Services from Birth to Adult for Individuals with Disabilities – Research and Data Connections for Success (NTACT)
- Taxonomy for Transition Programming 2.0
The Transition Coalition website has the following Resources:
Transition Assessments:
Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center
Lessons from the Beautiful Rainbow Café:
Videos