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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit
Part B State Performance Plan
TAKE OFF! (Transition Activities Keeping Effective Options First and Foremost): There were
five (5) “TAKE OFF!” trainings offered in 2009-10 and 87 teachers/administrators participated.
This training is offered to teachers to show how to implement an exit portfolio for Senior
students with IEPs. It includes having the students help write their own Summary of
Performance (SOP), maintaining agency contacts and correspondence in a portfolio, taking
qualifying assessments for enrollment in post-secondary schools and maintaining results, and
culminating with a portfolio overview on the exit conference. The training also includes parental
involvement activities to facilitate their knowledge of and agreement with the focus of the
portfolio. Participant pre- and post-test scores yielded a 65% increase in knowledge and skills as
an outcome of the training. Districts have the opportunity to purchase student, parent and
teacher manuals. Since TAKE OFF was introduced, more than 100 parent manuals and teacher
manuals have been distributed and more than 1,000 student graduation packets have been
distributed.
Arkansas Transition Summit: The fourth annual Arkansas Transition Summit was held October
1-2, 2009 to provide existing teams and newly-formed teams an opportunity to meet and focus
on student- focused planning and family involvement in an effort to improve post-school
outcomes for youth with IEPs. National speakers with expertise in these areas presented general
and breakout sessions. Arkansas teachers and agency personnel also presented on successful
programs in an effort to encourage other teachers to replicate them. Each team had four different
planning sessions to assess needs, set goals and develop an action plan to achieve those goals.
More than 200 participants attended from 35 teams. ATS staff will encourage local teams to
continue meeting to further their planning process. Cadre meetings will also help this effort.
Follow up with these teams will be provided by regional transition consultants. The Fifth
Annual Arkansas Transition Summit is scheduled for October 11-13, 2010.
College Bound 2010: This annual event was held June 16-18, 2010 at the University of Central
Arkansas (UCA) in Conway, AR. There were 17 students with disabilities and 14
parents/professionals in attendance that participated in team activities and sessions on self-
determination, organizational skills, assistive technology, academic advising, faculty
expectations, disability support services, financial aid, rights and responsibilities, campus
resources, and study aids/habits. A post College Bound survey will be sent to College Bound
students in an effort to obtain information about College Bound’s effectiveness to enhance
College Bound 2011. College Bound 2011 is scheduled for June 15-17, 2011 at UCA.
Transition Retreat: On December 10-11, 2009, 14 special education teachers and supervisors
from three school districts attended the second Transition Retreat at the Winthrop Rockefeller
Institute. This retreat afforded the participants the opportunity to learn about and examine age
appropriate Transition assessments, what they measure, the applicable population, guidelines for
test administration, etc. The participants were shown how the results of the reviewed
assessments could be used in the development of a more productive and beneficial transition
plan. This will be an annual event.
Division on Career Development and Transition: ATS collaborated with the Division on Career
Development and Transition to provide a pre-conference workshop on the Transition Planning
Inventory (TPI) Assessment at the Arkansas Council for Exceptional Children conference in
November 2009. More than 100 individuals attended the workshop to learn about the
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