Resources

Transition Assessment Guide Presentation

Content Areas Best Practices
Resource Type Document

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.

Strategies for Engaging Families in the Secondary Transition Process Presentation

Resource Type Document

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.

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

Resource Type Document

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.

Forms of Family Capital Quick Reference

Resource Type Document

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.

Family Engagement Reflection Tool for Continuous Improvement

Resource Type Document

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.

Transition Activities Timeline Considerations

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan, Self Advocacy
Resource Type Link

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.

Website: Supporting Justice Involved Youth with Disabilities

Resource Type Link

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.

How to Use the WiTransition App For Students

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

How to Use the WiTransition App For Families

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

How to Use the WiTransition App For Educators

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

WiTransition App Paper Copy

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

WiTransition App Sample PTP Student Report

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

Join WiCoT!

Content Areas County Communities on Transition (CCoT)
Resource Type Document

This flyer shares the Wisconsin Community on Transition (WiCoT) foundation, what's in it for members, and ways to get involved.

Ley de Innovación y Oportunidades para la Fuerza Laboral – WIOA FAQ for Families – Spanish

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

¿Qué es la Ley de Innovación y Oportunidades para la Fuerza Laboral (WIOA por sus siglas en inglés)?WIOA es una ley federal aprobada en julio de 2014 que incluía nuevas responsabilidades para las escuelas y para la División de Rehabilitación Vocacional (DRV) sobre apoyar a los estudiantes y jóvenes con discapacidades en su transición de la escuela a la universidad y / o a un empleo integrado competitivo. WIOA tiene requisitos específicos para garantizar que los estudiantes con discapacidades reciban servicios de transición para ayudarlos a alcanzar sus metas después de graduarse de la escuela secundaria. Los requisitos de la WIOA para las escuelas entraron en vigencia en julio de 2016. Algunos de los requisitos de la DRV entraron en vigencia inmediatamente cuando se aprobó la ley y otros se implementaron en julio de 2016.

What You Should Know about Wisconsin Law: Your Legal Rights and Responsibilities

Content Areas Indicator 1 & 2 - Graduation and Dropout Rates, Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan, Indicator 14 - Post School Outcomes, Self Advocacy
Resource Type Link

Formerly "On Being 18" publication from the Wisconsin Bar Association, discussing the rights and responsibilities for youth as they turn 18.

Summary of Performance (SoP) Best Practice Teacher Form – Fillable form

Content Areas Best Practices, Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

This is the final copy of the revised WiTIG effective practice SoP form as of 3/24/15.

A Family’s Guide to the PTP

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

This guide is to inform parents and youth of the new Postsecondary Transition Plan (PTP). It describes the new PTP application, how parents and youth can participate in the new PTP during an IEP team meeting, and gives a list of resources.

A New Way of Thinking

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan, Self Advocacy
Resource Type Tool

A New Way of Thinking is a guide for educators and students with disabilities. The purpose of the guide is to assist students to develop self‐accepting attitudes, combat negative thinking, and rediscover themselves.This guide will help students to better understand their disability, think positively about themselves, make choices related to their interests, gain self‐advocacy, and develop self‐determination skills— all of which helps create effective Transition Planning.

Guía para padres del Plan de Transición Post-secundaria (PTP) – Parent/Youth PTP Guide—SPANISH version

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

Translated into Spanish, this guide is to inform parents and youth of the new Postsecondary Transition Plan (PTP). It describes the new PTP application, how parents and youth can participate in the new PTP during an IEP team meeting, and gives a list of resources.

Transition Planning for Families

Content Areas Indicator 13 - Postsecondary Transition Plan
Resource Type Document

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.