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"According to our analysis, a college degree is and will remain one of the best available investments. Based on our findings: A four-year degree would no longer be worth its cost in the year 2086 at the price of $181,000 per year, assuming tuition costs continue to increase at present rates; The present benefit of a college degree over a high school diploma is equal to approximately $725,000 in lifetime earnings; and The present benefit of a bachelor's degree over an associate's degree is equal to approximately $340,000 in lifetime earnings."

Powerpoint from presentation by National Secondary Transition Center.

"A career pathways system is a coordinated system of programs and services supporting students in the transition from school to the workforce, and it can be one part of a comprehensive system to support students' college and career readiness. The College and Career Readiness and Success (CCRS) Center's resource Designing a Career Pathways System: A Framework for State Education Agencies is a four-chapter module intended to help state education agency staff design, implement, and evaluate a career pathways system. Each chapter includes a facilitator's guide, slide presentation, and activity handouts. The four chapters include:"

"Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No-there's more to it than that."

This website provides information about transitioning out of school. It talks about who can provide helpful services, where to find a job, and how to live independently. The home page of the website is divided into three sections; students, families, and transition professionals. Each of these three sections is then divided again on their own. The student section provides information on living within communities, managing health, and managing money. This information is given in a very friendly manner that is simple to understand. It is provided in both written form and verbal form with pictorials included. The family section is divided into 9 categories. These categories range from self-determination to employment to organizations that can help with the transition process. Each of these nine categories provides a brief description and alternate resources for further information. The section for transition professionals provides online courses and links to informational websites. As a special education teacher working on transition and career development, I would share this website with both students and families because the information is presented in a very clear way. I would work with students to help them read about and learn the information being provided and then create an activity as a follow up. For example, I would help the student navigate their way through the managing money portion of the website and then have the student complete a series of activities having to do with money and budgeting.

This document is an overview of a module that discusses how to support the transition process of individuals that use Assistive Technology. It has slides from a presentation that review the transition process, set up for someone who would be facilitating a workshop. The page is helpful because it breaks down the transition process, which is something that can be used as a refresher for those of us who are special educators in the lower grades that do not deal with transitions. The page also discusses how assistive technology is needed for individuals, and when it is appropriate to include in the transition process. I feel that I could refer to this site, although the set-up is strange, for guidance during my career.

"The National Center on RTI in partnership with the Idaho's State Department of Education and Boise State University presents a webinar discussing Idaho's specific learning disability (SLD) criteria. The webinar illustrates the deliberate and continued collaboration among various programs in the SEA in the design, development, and implementation of Idaho's SLD eligibility process."

"The New England Secondary School Consortium state liaisons are our in-state representatives and spokespersons. In collaboration with each state's department of education, they lead Consortium programs and support on-the-ground activities, from providing technical assistance to participating schools and working with state partner organizations to delivering presentations and coordinating events. If you are interested in learning more about Consortium activities in your state, reach out to your state liaison."

"oin the growing national and regional conversation about proficiency- and competency-based learning, the school and district reform that departs from traditional Carnegie unit and seat-time requirements for students. REL Northeast & Islands researchers will present a new study on definitions and policies related to competency-based learning and implementation across the region, and a representative from the New Hampshire Department of Education will discuss the implementation of a competency-based program in several pilot districts."

"For families of youth with disabilities, the transition from high school to employment, postsecondary education, and life in the community presents a variety of significant challenges. PACER's National Parent Center on Transition and Employment website offers innovative tools, reliable research, and interactive training to help address the needs of families across the country."

"This site will be both a support site for my presentations about iPad use for teaching and learning and it also includes links to other iPad information pages."

"This paper presents an overview of New Hampshire's efforts to implement a pilot accountability system designed to support deeper learning for students and powerful organization change for schools and districts. The accountability pilot, referred to as Performance Assessment of Competency Education or PACE, is grounded in a competency- based educational approach designed to ensure that students have meaningful opportunities to achieve critical knowledge and skills. These opportunities are judged by the outcomes students achieve and not by inputs such as seat time. Therefore, students must achieve these competencies before moving on to the next major learning targets and/or graduating from high school. High quality performance assessments play a crucial role in the PACE system because of the need to have assessments that measure the depths of student understanding of these complex learning targets. Performance assessments are used as both summative and interim measures in the PACE system as a way to document student learning of the competencies and to support remediation or extension interventions. The paper describes the system of assessments being implemented as part of the PACE pilot as well as providing a discussion of the technical quality issues the state is working to address as part of this accountability pilot. For example, being able to produce valid and comparable annual determinations for all students each year is a considerable technical challenge as well as documenting the degree to which all students are held to the same threshold expectations (equity). The paper concludes by relating the PACE initiative to the push for deeper and more meaningful learning for students. "

"The How People Learn (HPL) theory is the theoretical framework upon which our STAR Legacy Modules are built. HPL is based on a problem or challenge-based approach to achieving a fuller understanding of instructional or classroom issues and challenges. This page offers a brief summary of the theory and its components. For a more in-depth examination of HPL, please view the IRIS Module How People Learn: Presenting the Learning Theory and Inquiry Cycle on Which the IRIS Modules Are Built."

"View the CCRS Center's Professional Learning Modules (PLMs), a collection of customizable, content-rich, "train-the-trainer" resources, designed to walk participants through a process for implementing college and career ready initiatives.  The PLM materials include: A facilitator's guide that provides facilitation tips and script for trainers. A meeting agenda with recommended time allotments A PowerPoint slide presentation Professional learning activity handouts"

"Career Technical Education (CTE), previously called vocational education, is the present-day label used to denote specialized material and programs that focus instruction in skilled trades and occupational readiness (Drage, 2009). The aim of career technical education for high school students is to prepare them for college and career endeavors (ACTE, 2009). This goal matches special education career transition goals for students with an IEP. "

Web site is at http://www.tbrelearning.org/ Search the apps bank in the form on the right of this page http://www.tbrelearning.org/estudents-learning

This is a great resource for all educators. There is such an unending sea of apps available now that it is very helpful to have them presented in such a manageable way.

AT technology helps children with many disabilities. This article focuses on children with learning disabilities. Through AT children can focus on and celebrate their strengths. AT technology helps them "bypass" their challenges. AT can assist in all areas of school and life. Reading, Writing, Math, Organization, Etc... There are so many ways to assist students with AT such as alternative key boards, audio books, electronic worksheets, calculators that verbalize what you are typing, etc... I knew about some of these items but I have not had the oppurtunitity to work with any of them. At least now i have some background knowledge so if I ever need them or have the oppurtunitity to implement them into my classroom I will at least know a little. I also have this great resource to go to now if the situtation arises where I am looking for answers on AT.

Presenations and handouts from 2012 institute