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Building a Successful College, Career, and Life Ready Student Expo Visions Conference May 2017

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Building a Successful College, Career, and Life Ready

Student Expo Visions Conference May 2017

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START Team: Student Transition and Resource Team

• Stephenie Purinton • Dave Benthusen • Paul Heinze • Victoria McCraine • Julia McHugh • Toby Rowlinson • Freddie Valadez

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Purpose

• Why not try something different than your traditional family/agency fair? This presentation includes strategies and ideas for building a well-attended and successful student and agency expo. Using this approach encourages and empowers students’ self-determination and self-sufficiency in mapping out their future goals.

• The innovative best practice of creating a Student Expo results in students with disabilities gaining unique self-determination and self-advocacy skills, including preparing the students to make their own personal agency linkages and to map out and achieve their college, career and life goals.

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District Overview and

START History

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Focus Groups

• Focus Group 1 - Students who meet APD eligibility criteria (IQ of 69 or below) and are working on Access points.

• Focus Group 2 - Students who have cognitive and academic skill deficits, but who do not meet APD eligibility criteria; they receive instruction in the general curriculum but continue to struggle to master grade level standards, even with accommodations and direct, specialized instruction.

• Focus Group 3 - Students who, with accommodations and direct, specialized instruction and/or inclusionary practice support, can progress through the general curriculum toward graduation with a standard diploma; they may need additional support for self-determination, self-advocacy, community-based instruction, or on-the-job training.

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Suggested steps for creating a

Student Transition EXPO: • Step 1: Invite former students to participate in a student panel discussion sharing

their experiences throughout their education and professional experiences. • Step 2: Invite school personnel, agencies and postsecondary educational programs. • Step 3: Invite your target audience (Juniors and Seniors) to attend. • Step 4: Assign a moderator to facilitate the dialogue between the student panel and

audience. • Step 5: Students are given an opportunity to interface with agencies, post-secondary

representatives, and leisure and recreational resources, as well as given vital information to create their post-secondary resource portfolio.

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Funding Sources

• Project 10: Project Connect

• Transportation: District transportation – CBI

• IDEA

• Community donations

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Timeline

• October 2015 - Joint Agency/ESE Specialist meeting: Focus Group 1 Student Transition EXPO • January 2016 - High School Professional Development • February 2016 - High School visits • April 2016 - Joint Agency meeting: Share the change in the START’s Focus to other agencies

• October 2016 - Joint Agency/ESE Specialist meeting: Focus Group 2 & 3 Student Transition EXPO at WTC

• February 2017 - High School Meeting, goal setting (cap and gown) and reflection/question and answer on the October EXPO and transition

• March-May 2017 - Development of video to replace HS visits

• April 2017 - Joint Agency/ESE Specialist meeting: Focus Group 1 Student Transition EXPO • October 2017 - Joint Agency/ESE Specialist meeting: Focus Group 2 & 3 Student Transition EXPO at CF

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Grant Shoemaker Panel Member Share-out

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Questions?

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Citrus START Contact Information

• Stephenie Purinton - Chair, [email protected]

• Dave Benthusen - Co-Chair, [email protected]

• Paul Heinze, [email protected]

• Vicky McCraine, [email protected]

• Julia McHugh, [email protected]

• Toby Rowlinson, [email protected]

• Federico Valadez, [email protected]