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TRANSITION GUIDE

TAB 1: ITP State Standards

1. Flow Chart: CA Core messages for transition
2. Chart — “Transition Planning, Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12”: identifies goals, outcomes, and activities w/lessons for achieving the goals for each grade level.

TAB 2: ITP Goals & Objectives

1. Sample IEP’s, implementing the standards in tab 1, above.
2. Career Goals and Objectives Bank: shows the developmental levels of career education, what skills the student should have mastered at each level. Compilation of classroom achievement objectives for career development, pre-K through 12th grade. Goal categories are: Career Awareness, Self awareness, Decision making, Economic Awareness, Skills awareness, and Employability Skills.
3. Sample Statements (of what goal the student would like to achieve) and Activities (checklist of what needs to be done to achieve that goal in areas like Instruction, Community experiences, Employment, Post-School Adult Living, Daily Living Skills, Vocational

TAB 3: ITP Teaching Resources

1. CA Career Planning Guide 2000 (bound booklet put out by the CA DOL; available online at www.soicc.ca.gov.) Many links to helpful websites on the following topics:
   • Finding the best possible you
   • Matching your skills and abilities to jobs and careers (includes websites that assess skills & then link up jobs to skills)
   • Learning more about the jobs, the careers, the industries
   • Educating and training yourself to meet the needs of the job in the career you choose
   • Finding your first (or next) job in the career you choose.
     • The Plan/ Finding Jobs/ The Cover Letter/ The Resume/ The Application Form/ The Interview/ Keeping The job/ “My personal Plan”
   • Appendix with great websites
2. The Transitions Curriculum
   • Self assessment
   • How to build a resume, sample resumes, weekly lesson plans for developing an understanding of one’s LD; uses Uncovering the Mysteries of Your LD — Discovery, Self-Awareness, Self-Advocacy, by Scott L. Crouse
   • 10th, 11th, and 12th grade Lesson Objectives
   • “The Self-Directed IEP: 10 Step Guide” (great resource for any student)

TAB 4: Agency Resources — (parents/teachers/students)
Multi-paged booklet lists in alphabetical agency every support agency in Bay Area, e.g., Family Service Agency of Marin County, Anorexia-Bulimia Support Group of Marin, Marin Conservation Corp, Salvation Army, AAA, Novato Youth Center, Youth Leadership Institute, etc. Valuable resource for consulting re a specific type of problem, e.g., substance abuse, counseling, etc.

TAB 5: Options During and After High School

1. “College and High School Guide 2003-04,” bound booklet with yellow cover put out by TUHSD, (college resources); available online in PDF format
2. “Accessing your Future, Career and College Planning Student Guide 2002-03” bound booklet white with blue edge put out by MCOE (also college oriented)
3. Pro-Ed Advertising Brochure on Transition Products — books etc. to help students transition from High school, e.g., Teaching Social Competence to Youth and Adults with Developmental Disabilities, #8548
4. “Post High School Options”
   1. Community College Programs
   2. Regional Occupational Programs (Culinary Institute, etc. — see mcoeweb.marin.k12.ca.us/rop/)
   3. Apprenticeships: cement masons, Norcal laborers Joint Apprenticeships
   4. Worksmart
   5. Norcal Community College Career Guide www.baccc.org/cg/
   6. Tech Institutes, e.g., Heald
   7. MCOE “Summer work Experience Class” can get credit. Call Sue Shirley at Redwood 945-3600, ex 6282
   8. ROP Regional Opportunity Program) vocational classes for students 16 and older. 499-5860
   9. Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership of Marin: students aged 12-21 are matched with local volunteer opportunities.
   10. Build Marin: Student Internship program through ROP, call 499-5860. 12-week program beginning in September to explore a career path in architecture, construction, engineering, urban planning, city planning
   11. Marin Employment Connection
   12. Project Invest www.marinemployment.com
   13. Santa Rosa Jr. College info
   14. Career and Job Training Certificate Programs

TAB 6: IDEA ’97 Transitions
Excerpts from IDEA legislation printed in the Federal Register*

TAB 7: Student Resources During and After High School

1. “Exploration and Timelines” 10th, 11th, and 12th grades (college oriented)
2. “Getting Ready For college: Advising High School Students with LD’s” self advocacy, understanding legal rights, etc.
3. “Recommendations for College Bound High School Students With diagnosed learning Problems”
4. “Fourteen Things I wish I’d known before I Left Home”
5. Senior Transitions Goals Checklist (for the college bound)
6. U of Cal Disabled Students Program (DSP) description & websites
7. Summary: Supporting Students with Disabilities, from CSU High School Counselors Conference Fall 2002—Answers common questions about IEP’s/ 504’s post high school
8. Special consideration Process for acceptance at San Diego State University
9. Learning Outside the Lines by Jonathon Mooney — reviews
10. Success Without College by Linda Lee — reviews
11. Meeting the Challenge of LD’s in Adulthood, by Arlyn J. Roffman
12. Survival Guide for College Students with ADD or LD, ed. Patricia O. Quinn
13. Printout: “ADD in college, Faculty and Student Partners in Education,” by Patricia H. Latham, Peter S. Latham, publ. by NCLLD. (Includes legal rights, possible accommodations, possible student strategies.)
14. Printout: “Requesting Academic Accommodations” includes rehearsals for self-advocacy, sample dialogues with college professors.
15. “Selecting a college,” from Peterson’s colleges for Students with LD’s or ADD
16. Excerpt from The K & W Guide to Colleges for Students With LD’s or ADD, by Marybeth Kravets and Imy Wax (focus is to provide comprehensive information about the strategies or programs available at colleges and universities for students with LD or ADHD.) Includes: Types of programs; Structured programs; Coordinated services; Basic services.
17. “How College Students with LD’s Can Advocate For Themselves,” by Linda G. Tessler, LDA Newsbriefs Sept/Oct 1999.

TAB 8: Colleges (Disabilities)/ College Support Services

1. “Differences Between K-12 Ed. And College” Chart showing differences between 504’s and IEP’s at K-12 levels, then comparing that with 504’2/IEP at college levels.
2. Excerpt from The College Finder, “Top Schools for Students With LD’s”
3. College of Marin DSP (Disabled Students Program): “Transition to College” is a no fee class to help students with disabilities to get the information they need to transition to college.
4. Peterson’s Guide to colleges with Programs for Students With LD’s or ADHD, ed. Charles T. Mangrum II and Stephen S. Strichart
5. The K & W Guide to Colleges for Students With LD’s or ADD, Kravets and Wax (Princeton Review)
6. Printout: Community Service Programs & Agencies
7. Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You’re Not a Straight-A Student, by Loren Pope
8. College of Marin DSP’s: www.marin.cc.ca.us/disabled
9. Santa Rosa Junior College, disabled resources department: www.santarosa.edu/disability_resources/

TAB 9: School To Career/College & Career Center/Project workability/R.O.P.

1. College and Career Center 2001-02, To-Do list for center*
2. Summary of what the RWHS C & C Center does for each class*
3. Marin County School To Career Partnership. School To Career Activities in TUHSD Spring 2003: School based liaisons, internships, job shadows, guest speakers, career expos
4. Information on “Project workability” from the CA Department of Special Ed — program provides comprehensive pre-employment training, employment placement, and follow-up for students in special ed. Call (916) 323-3309; www.cde.ca.gov/spbranch/sed/worka_i/wkaindex.htm
5. Information on R.O.P. (Marin County Regional Occupation Program) vocational classes for ages 16 and up. Call 499-5860; mcoeweb.marin.k12.ca.us/rop/