Workshops
sponsored by the National Transition Alliance for Youth with Disabilities
Workshops
For information on upcoming
capacity building institutes relating to
transition, visit the
National Center on Secondary Education and
Transition Institutes page.
The NTN School-to-Work project, together with National Transition Alliance partners, offered numerous workshops to help build state capacity for including youth with disabilities in school-to-work systems.
For more information, see below or contact NTN by phone at (612) 624-2097 or by email at ncset@umn.edu.
2000 Sustaining STW Principles and Practices
Strategies to Benefit All Youth Including Youth with Disabilities
May 1 - 2, 2000
San Antonio, Texas
This workshop grew out of requests from states for —
- Real life examples of what's working
- An opportunity to discuss specific issues with experts and practitioners
- Time to reflect and plan for the future
As the grant period for the School-to-Work Opportunities Act sunsets, leaders and strategies are needed to sustain the critical work we are doing.
1999 Standards, School-to-Careers, and Assessment
Special Populations and Professional Practice
May 17 - 18, 1999
Raleigh, North Carolina
This workshop was designed to build state capacity to identify and address key issues in statewide standards, school-to-careers, and assessment systems for including youth placed at risk due to disability, limited English proficiency, and poverty.
Benefits of participation
- Learn about key issues and strengthening professional practice from content experts,
- Share in in-depth discussions during follow-up sessions with content experts,
- Share practical “how to” strategies with colleagues on key issues and strengthening professional practice, and
- Apply workshop learning in your plan of action during facilitated state/local team sessions.
Intended audience
States were encouraged to send teams with the appropriate knowledge, skills and responsibilities to bring about systemic change relating to standards, school-to-careers, and assessment. Individuals attending were matched with a team to maximize the benefits of this workshop.
Many thanks to NTA partners and these additional sponsors -
National
Center for Educational Outcomes
Center for Law and
Education
National Conference of
State Legislatures
1999 Tools for the Future
Building Effective School-to-Work Partnerships with Employers to Benefit All Youth, Including Youth with Disabilities
February 22 - 23, 1999
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This workshop addressed major issues, student and employer benefits, and system incentives for including all youth when engaging employers in School-to-Work. It was designed to help build and sustain the necessary partnerships to engage employers in joint efforts which benefit all youth, including youth with disabilities.
Benefits of participation
- Hear what employers have to say about effective strategies for engaging businesses to benefit all youth, including youth with disabilities.
- Identify challenges to including youth with disabilities when engaging the employer community in School-to-Work.
- Gain practical tools to build and sustain successful partnerships between students, families, educators, and employers.
- Learn from shared models for including youth with disabilities in effective school-to-work partnerships with employers.
Intended audience
States and local partnerships were encouraged to send teams with the appropriate knowledge, skills, and responsibility to bring about change relating to employer involvement within their system. Individuals attending were matched with a team to maximize the benefit of this workshop.
1998 Standards Based Education Reform
Including Youth with Disabilities
May 7 - 8, 1998
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Workshop Report available online!
This workshop was designed to build states' capacity to address major issues, student benefits and system incentives for including youth with disabilities in state standards, assessment and accountability systems.
Benefits of participation
- Identify challenges to including youth with disabilities within the emerging state standards and large-scale accountability systems,
- Gain practical strategies to address these challenges, in terms of student benefits and system incentives,
- Learn from shared models for including youth with disabilities in school-to-work strategic plans and education reform efforts focusing on standards, assessment and accountability issues, and
- Develop or refine your state's plan of action for including youth with disabilities in state standards, assessment and accountability systems.
Intended audience
States were encouraged to send teams with the appropriate knowledge, skills and responsibilities to bring about change relating to this topic within their system. Individuals attending were matched with a team to maximize the benefits of this workshop.
Many thanks to the NTA partners and these additional sponsors—
Center for Law and
Education
National Conference of
State Legislatures
National
Center for Educational Outcomes
PACER
Center (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights)
1998 Tools for the Future
Building Effective School-to-Work Partnerships with Employers to Benefit All Youth, Including Youth with Disabilities
March 19 - 20, 1998
Chicago, Illinois
We were excited to bring Peter Joyce, Vice President of the National Alliance of Business, and Cyndi Jones, Editor of Mainstream Magazine, as well as content experts, facilitators, and National Transition Alliance staff from around the country to present and assist with this event.
Benefits of participation
This workshop was designed to provide tools to build and sustain successful partnerships between educators and employers, as well as offer opportunities to network with others implementing school-to-work systems nationwide.
Intended audience
School-to-Work Systems Builders
Educators
Employers
Disability Organizations
Many thanks to NTA partners
1997 Marketing School-to-Work for All Youth
May 14 - 15, 1997
Asheville, North Carolina
The NTA was honored to have Daniel Keeney of Conkling, Fiskum & McCormick (CFM) as the presenter for our Marketing School-to-Work for ALL Youth Workshop. Dan is Vice President for Public Relations with CFM, a public affairs and strategic communications agency. Dan works closely with the Oregon Department of Education, and Oregon's Regional and Local Partnerships to communicate the goals of STW to a myriad of audiences. CFM has been involved in developing a communications strategy for education reform initiatives in Oregon for the past several years.
Benefits of participation
This workshop was designed to:
- Enhance your current local and state communications and marketing plans to improve their overall effectiveness;
- Develop buy-in from your internal audiences as the foundation for achieving communication and marketing goals;
- Communicate to a myriad of audiences and develop a communications system that is inclusive; and
- Ensure your communications and marketing plans include all youth, specifically youth with disabilities.
Intended audience
State School-to-Work Partners
Representatives from Regional and Local Partnerships
Providers/Individuals from the
Disability Community
Individuals Responsible for State
and Local STW Communications and Marketing
URL:
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Last updated on
May 16, 2003
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