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How to Move a State Forward
Changing Systems Through
Effective
Technical Assistance
Improving transition planning, services, and
outcomes for youth with disabilities
NSTTAC Meeting 2007 – Wisconsin DPI
Presenters
Steve Gilles
Department of Public Instruction
DPI Transition Consultant
Linda Maitrejean
Wisconsin Statewide Transition Initiative
WSTI Project Director
Mary Kampa
Wisconsin Post High School Outcomes Survey
WPHSOS Project Director
Session Elements
Wisconsin Approach
Building Capacity
State-funded projects
State and National partners
WSTI structure
Post high school outcomes survey
Challenges and Future Development
Wisconsin Approach
State funded projects vs funding for district
projects
State and Regional Leadership structure
District support
Technical assistance and support
Professional development
Parent partnership
Share Information
Networking and Collaboration
Data collection and reporting
How to Build Statewide Capacity
State funded projects
CESA, state and national collaboration
Professional development
WI Transition Conference
Parent and youth partnerships
Local commitment and support
Regional leadership and accountability
State-funded Projects
Wisconsin Statewide Transition Initiative
www.wsti.org
Wisconsin Post High School Outcomes Survey
www.posthighsurvey.org
State Improvement Grant
http://www.dpi.wi.gov/sped/sig.html
Medicaid Infrastructure grant
State & National Partners
Transition Outcomes Project (TOPS) Ed
O’Leary
National Standards & Quality Indicators
Toolkit (NASET)
National Community of Practice on
Transition (NASDSE and IDEA Partnership)
North Central Regional Resource Center
(NCRRC)
State & National Partners
NSTTAC
Technical assistance & support
Indicator #13
Wisconsin Community on Transition
National PSO Center National
Community of Practice on Outcomes
Indicator #14
NDPC –SD
State agreement between DPI, DVR
and DHFS
Interagency Agreement
IEP
Individualized
Education Plan
TRANSITION
SERVICES
IPE
Individualized
Plan for
Employment
ISP
Individualized
Services
Plan
POST-SCHOOL
EMPLOYMENT GOALS
Division of Learning Support: Equity and Advocacy
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Wisconsin Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Wisconsin Division of Disability and Elder Services
Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services
Wisconsin
Statewide
Transition
Initiative
Helping Students with Disabilities
Transition into Adult Life
NSTTAC Meeting 2007 – Wisconsin DPI
WSTI Structure
DPI Transition Consultant
WSTI Project Director
Support Staff (20 days)
13 WSTI Coordinators
2 Parent Liaisons
MagicEdge Web Design
www.wsti.org
WSTI Coordinator Role
Transition Action Team (TAT)
Transition Advisory Network (TAN)
Transition Advisory Council (TAC)
Transition Assistance and Support
Transition Action Team
3
districts volunteer per CESA per year
6 professional development modules
1 parent training
IEPs and SoPs checklist review
Transition Action Team (cont.)
Report
Out & Transition Action Plan
IEP checklist data
SoP checklist data
Indicator 1, 2, 13 and 14 data
Ongoing
Review
TA and support
IEPs and SoPs one year later
Transition Advisory Network
Minimum of 2 TAN mtgs per year
1 representative from each district
Current issues and best practice
DPI/DVR/DHFS Agreement
Behavior
WSTI website
Guest speakers
Networking opportunity
Transition Advisory Council
Provide support to TAC (direct or indirect)
All counties in WI have regular
meetings
Mission Statement and Activity
Transition Resource Directory
County and state clearinghouse
www.wsti.org
Assistance and Support
Indicator #13 training and data
collection
Measurable Postsecondary Goals and
Summary of Performance
Shared Services (district pays for more
time)
Youth Development
Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG)
Resource Maps
Youth Development and Leadership
Training Manual
Jonathan Mooney and LeDerick
Horne
Posted on www.sharedwork.org
WSTI Youth Advisory Board
Evaluation
Module pre/post evaluation
IEP and SoP Data Reports
Review
1 and 2
Review 3 (optional)
Portfolio requirements and selfassessment
CESA Support Visits/Conference Calls
Impact Data
72/72 Transition Advisory Councils
established
72/72 Transition Resource Directory
created
204/426 districts served
Challenges
Level funding
Limited staff time and level of commitment
District level of commitment without add’l funding
Limited Project support staff
Administrative support
Getting results v. compliance
Collaboration
Communication and relationship building
Time
Attitudes
Post High School Outcomes
• Indicator 14 is new this year
• Wisconsin has collected outcomes for past 6 years
• Wisconsin will collect data from districts based on a
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six-year cycle that is aligned with other data
collection activities
App. 1200 students and a Milwaukee sample
included annually
Post High School Project Funding
Support from WDPI
Support financially and in scope
• Post high outcomes project is based on
discretionary funding from the WDPI to CESA 11
• The project started with 25 days and a $20,000
budget
• The current budget is approximately $147,000
• The website cost -approx $40,000 over three years
Support
Funds .50 FTE Director (130 days)
.35 (95 days) FTE Program Assistant web
development, interviewing
Program Assistant
• “Help Desk”
• Maintains link between project director, web
designer, districts, DPI staff and others
• Development and formatting of materials
• Website structure/pages editing and navigation
Post High School Outcomes Website
• WPHSOS website is a tool developed to assist LEAs
with the data collection and reporting requirements of
Indicator 14
• Ensures consistency in data collection and reporting in a
time-efficient, cost-effective manner
• During required survey years, St. Norbert College Survey
Center calls former students and conducts the telephone
interviews at no cost to districts
Post High School Outcomes Website
The post high website has two purposes
1. Required for Indicator 14
• During monitoring cycle year
• One year after monitoring
2. Elective to determine local outcomes and monitor
improvement efforts.
• Can by used by any district any year
• Use for general education students as well
Post High School Outcomes Survey
• Includes a 7 – 10 minute telephone interview
with former students
• Assesses former students’ participation in
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independent living
postsecondary education
employment
high school employment & IEP planning
• Has 3 open-ended questions
Post High School Outcomes Survey
• All survey instruments and instructions are
provided on the outcomes website
• WDPI collects the Indicator 14 data directly
from the outcomes website
• Additional data collection tools and outcomes
improvement resources will be available on
the outcomes website
Post High School Outcomes Survey
• Responses may be viewed by gender, ethnicity,
disability and exit type
• Provides an auto-fill summary report as well as an
optional, in-depth report template
• Can be used by any LEA, any year and over multiple
years
• Six years of data will be maintained on the website
Post High School Outcomes Survey
• Districts are encouraged to collect baseline
data, identify deficits, locate and implement
improvement strategies and use the outcomes
website to support improved outcomes for
youth
• Technical assistance is provided in pre-data
collection, data collection, and data use
Technical Assistance
Collaboration with other statewide
projects and groups leads to
improved outcomes.
Technical Assistance
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Information on Indicator 14 is provided to
districts through state and regional meetings,
and through the WDPI website
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Technical assistance is provided to districts
through information dissemination and direct
support in Indicator 14 data collection, reporting,
and interpretation
We try to be visible and helpful!
Data Dissemination/Meetings/Presentations
• State Leadership Conference
• Directors of special education, LEA administration,
superintendents and other school personnel
• State Directors of Special Education Conference
• Special education leadership personnel
• State Transition Conference
• Teachers, parents, youth, directors of special education
• State Rehabilitation Conference
• Adult service providers/agencies, school personnel, WDPI
Data Dissemination/Interpretations
• Regional Trainings
• WDPI, teachers, adult service providers/agencies, school
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personnel, directors of special education, higher education,
health and family services
Local TACs (e.g. Barron Co.) – if there were no WSTI project,
there would likely be no county transition council and the data
would likely not be used
CESA meetings (TANs)
• Local Trainings/Meetings
• Local districts (TATs e.g. Madison Area Schools)
State/Agency/Meetings/Presentations
• WDPI staff and consultants
• Department of Workforce Development – Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
• Higher Education – public 2-yr., 4-yr. & technical
colleges
• Parents
• Adult service providers/agencies – sheltered
workshops
National Technical Assistance
NPSO Center (www.psocenter.org)
• Agency support and website resources used to
better our project, connect with other states,
network, learn and disseminate information gained
• e.g. used the PSO Interviewer Training Guide developed by
SUNY Postdam to create interviewer training power point
Assistance to Others
• Presentations
• Utah outcomes website
Future Direction
Connect projects
Through use of student ID
Indicator 1, 2, 13 and 14 data
Additional Funding
State Professional Development Grant (SPDG)
Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG)
WI Transition Technical Assistance “Hub”
Improve practice across systems through “practice
groups”
www.sharedwork.org
How to Move a
State Forward:
Changing Systems
Through Effective
Technical Assistance
NSTTAC Meeting 2007 – Wisconsin DPI
Additional Technical Assistance
Steve Gilles
DPI Consultant-Transition
[email protected]
608-266-1146
Linda Maitrejean
WSTI Project Director & CESA Coordinators
[email protected]
www.wsti.org
715-986-2020 ext. 2122
Mary Kampa
Post High School Outcomes Project Director
[email protected]
www.posthighsurvey.org
715-416-0609
NSTTAC Meeting 2007 – Wisconsin DPI