Patrick Chambers

Use this Google Sheet to map out the IEP timelines for each of the Transition (8-12th grade) student's on your caseload. It's a smart sheet that will populate the projected dates based on each of your student's IEP due dates. You can manipulate your ideal timelines to match when your caseload's IEP occurs: shortening the timeline if you have a lot of your meetings in the fall or elongating it if you have a Spring heavy caseload. The dates in the populated cells will also turn the cell red aft

Use this compilation of links to free online transition assessments around the web to help with your student's transition planning. The assessments are organized by transition domain (employment, post-sec. education, and independent living and broken down by the student's level of independence (minimal support needed, moderate support needed, and low-incidence). These are listed as open source/ free assessments around the web, I've just compiled them for your ease of assessment planning. You c

Use this tool as an example for what needs to be written in each section of the Transition Plan. This example has correlating explanations for each part/each box to help you better understand what you should be looking for as your individualize for your students. This tool has pieces compiled from multiple Transition Plans for students of varying degrees of independence to give an array of what could go in each box/section. *This example is derived from Transition Plans using Illinois IEP

The idea behind this lesson is that there's ALWAYS more than one way to do something and that we can meet the desired outcome in a number of ways while we ensure we’re considering what our own skills are and what variables we are contending with.   We run into troubles when we teach a linear step by step task analysis approach to a desired outcome because variables are natural to our environment.  A variable can interrupt the process or the process starts on a variable (starting late, bus is l