Resources

TIG Self-Advocacy Guidance

Content Areas Self Advocacy
Resource Type Link

The Transition Improvement Grant (TIG) has developed a self-advocacy guidance toolkit to house TIG developed resources as well as highlight resources from national transition partners. The toolkit contains online resources such as: assessments, curricula, student led Individualized Education Program (IEP) materials, law and policy, and opportunities to grow your own learning. Self-advocacy is a predictor of post-school success for students with IEPs and the guidance will enhance the resources available and provide support for educators, students, and families.

Transition Assessment Guide

This guide is designed to help educators and transition planning teams better understand, select, and use transition assessments to support students with IEPs as they prepare for life after high school.

How to Use the WiTransition App For Educators

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
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How to Use the WiTransition App For Families

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
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How to Use the WiTransition App For Students

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
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Website: Supporting Justice Involved Youth with Disabilities

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The Transition Improvement Grant has developed this resource to support individuals who support justice involved youth with disabilities. It offers helpful resources, strategies, and best practices designed to foster a positive learning environment and enhance the educational experience for justice involved youth. This resource also focused on best practices to ensuring a smooth transition to post-school support that includes increased family/caregiver engagement, education, employment and mental health.

Transition Activities Timeline Considerations

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan, Self Advocacy
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The Transition Improvement Grant (TIG) has compiled a resource to encompass transition activities to consider at all grade levels to assist youth, families and educators in navigating through the transition process. Areas to reflect on and consider activities include SelfDetermination and Self-Advocacy, Employment, and Postsecondary Education and Training. Adapted from the Opening Doors series by the Wisconsin Department of Instruction.

Family Engagement Reflection Tool for Continuous Improvement

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This tool is designed to help schools and partners reflect deeply on the quality of family engagement practices. Rather than focusing on compliance or attendance counts, the tool emphasizes meaningful contributions, cultural responsiveness, and student-centered outcomes. It encourages practitioners to pause, reflect, and identify both strengths and opportunities for growth.

Forms of Family Capital Quick Reference

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Family engagement goes beyond school-based participation. Families bring diverse forms of capital— knowledge, resources, and strengths—that enrich planning and support for their children. This document provides examples of different types of capital.

Sample Listening Session Prompts for Engaging Families in the Secondary Transition Process Presentation

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This guide is designed to help educators and transition planning teams better understand, select, and use transition assessments to support students with IEPs as they prepare for life after high school. Transition assessments help uncover a student's preferences, interests, needs, and strengths (PINS) through collecting valuable data. This information shapes the Postsecondary Transition Plan (PTP) and ensures the Individualized Education Program (IEP) is tailored to each student’s unique goals.

Strategies for Engaging Families in the Secondary Transition Process Presentation

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Approaches that center community, context, and family strengths. Identify traditional approaches to family engagement in secondary transition, explore innovative and community-driven strategies for strengthening partnerships, reflect on current practices, share ideas, and identify at least two strategies to apply in your school or district, learn methods for evaluating family engagement and its impact on post-school outcomes, and develop an action step for implementing at least one new family engagement approach or tool.

Transition Assessment Guide Presentation

Content Areas Best Practices
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Explore the structure and purpose of the TIG Transition Assessment Guide and how it supports transition planning, and identify practical ways to apply the guide and available assessments to meet the diverse needs of students.

WiTransition App Paper Copy

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
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Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment

The IEP must include appropriate measurable postsecondary goals based upon age-appropriate transition assessment related to training, education, employment, and where appropriate, independent living skills. 34 CFR 300.320(b)(1), IDEA

Summary of Performance Guidance

Content Areas Best Practices
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The Summary of Performance Guidance provides an overview of the requirements of a summary of performance and key resources that can assist with completing one.

Transition Planning for Families Fillable Form

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
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The postsecondary transition planning process can feel overwhelming unless you know what agencies are available to support your child, where to get the help you need, and have a solid transition plan in place with your child’s school. It is important to begin to think and plan for life after high school as early as possible.

Culturally Responsive Transition Planning: Educator Reflection

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
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It is important for educators to support students and families in developing postsecondary goals, and supports and services that can be tied into their Preferences, Interests, Needs, and Strengths, including connecting individuals with the communities in which they live and the strengths and assets that their individual experiences, families, and communities bring. This document will provide guiding questions for reflection during the transition planning process.

Indicator 14 Post School Outcomes Interactive Map

Content Areas Indicator 14 - Post School Outcomes
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This webpage is a series of maps showing the five major outcomes for these youth. The data are based on an unduplicated count of successfully completed interviews, meaning respondents are counted in only one category, and in the highest category listed in the following order: Higher Education, Competitive Employment, Other Postsecondary Education or Training, Other Employment, and Not Meeting Indicator 14 Participation Criteria. Each outcome is aggregated by school district (LEA) and by county. Maps are interactive.

PTP Security Diagram

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
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This resource shows the process for administrators and PTP users to gain access to and create PTPs.

Transition Programming Beyond Age 18

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The Beyond Age 18 website is designed to help teams create meaningful, individualized special education services for students with IEPs who stay in high school after their peers graduate. For some students with IEPs this time may be used to finish credits towards graduation with a regular high school diploma while others may build skills as they transition to life after high school. This guidance is provided to help teams reflect on what supports are needed and where, as well as connecting with outside agencies and braiding services to improve post school outcomes for students with IEPs.