The ARRA represents an historic investment in education.  This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will allow you to retain staff while training them to use our evidence-based practices that comply with professional development guidelines outlined by the ARRA.  We will provide you with all the tools necessary to train your staff to train others (“train the trainer”) in order to replicate professional development services throughout your district. 

According to the U.S. Department of Education, teacher effectiveness is a major influence on students’ academic success.  Our professional development services will allow you to implement school-wide strategies to address students’ academic and behavioral needs and improve outcomes for students with disabilities.  Train your staff to:

assess individual career interests
provide age-appropriate transition assessments
link post-secondary outcomes to educational activities
correlate course of study to state content standards
involve students in creating their own transition plan
create a career portfolio for documenting post-secondary goals
assess and then teach core self-determination skills related to academic and post-secondary goal-setting and achievement
provide assessment and skill intervention strategies for key social/emotional intelligence skills
assess and then teach functional life, social, literacy, work and math skills related to independent living

Our professional development services will help you drive results for students, increase educators’ long-term capacity to improve results for students, accelerate reform goals, avoid “the cliff” and improve productivity and foster continuous improvement.  Our services comply with the wise investment suggestions outlined by the U.S. Department of Education:
           
Sustainability – no ongoing fees and free updates
Assessments used to improve student outcomes
Data tracking – accountability is built in through our management system

You can use our professional development services to gain college credit.  We offer one to three semester hours of undergraduate or graduate credit to all successful attendees of our transition, self-determination, or social/emotional learning seminars.  Courses are available in the following areas:

Transition assessment and curriculum
Personal responsibility (self-determination)
Emotional intelligence (social/emotional learning)

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