The Transition Tips database is now live. Come search, browse or add your own tip to the tips database. Tips are available in the areas of:

      • Transition Planning
      • Student Involvement
      • Family Involvement
      • Curriculum and Instruction
      • Transition Assessment
      • Assistive Technology and UDL
      • Students from Specific Disability Groups
      • Interagency Collaboration

The collection of these tips was commissioned by the Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT) and supported by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

Identified as a Transition Coalition Model of Success in transition, the Personal Data Wizard is a great resource for you! For $1 per student per year, you can use the Personal Data Wizard, a secure online individual career portfolio and transition planning program. A student can log on to a secure personal site for the following:

     •Interest Assessment and Career Research
     •Templates for: Resumes, Cover Letters, Thank You Letters, and Resignation Letters.
     •Self scoring practice tests for: Calif. DMV, ASVAB, Employment, etc.
     •Personal Budget Builder
     •Useful resources to address IEP/ITP goals, objectives and activities.

Please visit www.hrop.org/wizard and click on the Virtual Tour to see all of these fabulous features!

A series of online 1-credit transition courses are available through KU Continuing Education. This course series recently won 2 awards from the National Association of Continuing Higher Education for 2009! For more information about the courses, see Continuing Education Transition Short Courses and download this flyer.

The Transition Coalition in collaboration with the Vermont Department of Education has developed the Vermont-specific Best Practices in Transition Planning online learning module. If you are from Vermont, log into this site, and go to Online Learning Modules.