Illinois Transition Planning Institute Facilitator Prep. Webinar

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Illinois Transition Planning Institute
Facilitator Prep. Webinar
The webinar will begin shortly!

• Preparing for Your Role as a Team Facilitator
  Part I
• April Mustian, Illinois State University
• Catherine Fowler, National Secondary Transition
  TA Center (NSTTAC)
• Sue Walter, Illinois State Board of Education

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Illinois Transition Planning Institute
Facilitator Prep. Webinar

• Preparing for Your Role as a Team Facilitator
  Part I
• April Mustian, Illinois State University
• Catherine Fowler, National Secondary Transition
  TA Center (NSTTAC)
• Sue Walter, Illinois State Board of Education

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Purpose of Today

• To clarify the purpose of the Transition
  Institute
• To help prepare for your role as team facilitators

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Thank you!

• You are some of the most important players in the
  Institute (no pressure!)

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Illinois Transition Planning Institute
Improve student outcomes!

• Purpose

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Illinois Transition Planning Institute
Improve student outcomes by improving what we do!

• Process

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Purpose of the Institute

• Increase participants knowledge of selected
  topics
• Student-Focused Planning
• IEP Development
• Student Participation
• Planning Strategies
• Assess progress on implementing these practices
• Determine strengths and needs
• Develop plans to address identified needs

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Illinois Transition Planning Institute

• Institute format
• Hybrid Institute/Conference model
• Combines elements of a conference with elements
  of an institute

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Taxonomy for Transition Programming
Family Involvement
Student-Focused Planning
Program Structures
Student Development
Interagency Collaboration
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Taxonomy for Transition Programming

• FAMILY INVOLVEMENT
• Family Training
• Family Involvement
• Family Empowerment

• STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
• Life Skills Instruction
• Employment Skills Instruction
• Career Vocational Curricula
• Structured Work Experience
• Assessment
• Support Services

• PROGRAM STRUCTURES
• Program Philosophy
• Program Policy
• Strategic Planning
• Program Evaluation
• Resource Allocation
• Human Resource Development

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Student-focused Planning

• IEP development
• Options identified for each outcome or goal
• Responsibility of participants or agencies
  specified
• Goals are measurable
• Student Participation
• Planning team inlcudes student, family members,
  and school and participating agency personnel

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Student-focused Planning

• Planning Strategies
• Self-determination facilitated within the
  planning process
• Planning decisions driven by student and family
• For more on Student-focused Planning, see Toolkit
  pg. 5

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Illinois Transition Planning Institute
Keynotes
Breakout sessions
Strengthen Transition-Focused Education
Content resources
Team planning sessions
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Team Planning Tool

• Provides a context for team discussions
• Assists teams to leave with concrete ideas
• 3 parts
• Current Implementation
• Strengths and Needs
• Goals and Plans

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TPSA

• Transition Practices Self-Assessment (TPSA)
  document
• Districts assess current practices in the 5
  Taxonomy for Transition Programming areas
• Focus for this institute will be on the
  student-focused planning data from the TPSA
• The TPSA assessment questions for student-focused
  planning are centered around Indicator-13

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A Tool to Facilitate Planning

• What are we doing now?
• What do we need to do?
• What will we do?
• How will we measure our progress?

• Current activities
• Needs assessment
• A plan

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4 Team Sessions

• Assigned tasks for each session
• Review agenda
• Select expert resources
• Discuss content (with expert resources)
• Identify content session assignments
• Work through tool using quality indicators

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Team Meetings Schedule

• Tuesday, September 28
• 1100 AM 1240 PM (includes lunch, getting
  started)
• 300 PM 500 PM (working hard)
• Wednesday, September 29
• 845 AM 930 AM (re-group/re-focus time)
• 1045 AM 130 PM (includes lunch, finish line)

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Facilitator Materials

• Institute packets and facilitator folders
• Team meeting agendas
• Jump drives/ planning tool
• Your flip charts and markers
• Content resources and request/ schedule forms
• Record for identifying what worked and what didnt

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Facilitator Roles

• Facilitate team organization (space, materials,
  etc.)
• Keep time
• Provide structure for discussion
• Observe and advocate for progress and process
• Prepare content resource requests
• Keep content resources moving
• Help ID what worked and what didnt

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Facilitator Roles

• Foster discussion of current activities, needs,
  and plans
• Ensure participation of all team members
• Recognize different levels of knowledge
• Help problem solve
• Identify and help overcome roadblocks
• Lead group to complete planning tool

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Key Facilitation Skills Think Ahead

• The facilitator manual, especially
• 2 Opening a Session
• 3 Leading Group Discussion
• 5 Using Flip Charts
• 6 How to Help a Group Consensus
• 7 Managing Conflict
• 9 Evaluating Work Session

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Using Flip Charts

• Color
• Emphasis
• Page numbers

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Facilitating Multiple Teams

• Work with one team individually while the content
  resource meets with another
• Or share expert resources if team needs are
  similar
• Combine like tasks to include all teams
• Introductions
• Ground rules
• Content session report outs
• Be flexible! Manage your time among all teams!

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Questions