Hi Everyone,

This month none of you had any pressing Transition questions, so I thought it would be helpful to provide you with an update to my resource list. In my last few trainings and classroom projects, I have shared with educators ideas and resources related to connecting California Standards and Transition activities. The participants have found the list very useful and I hope you will too. Please use and share this information with your colleagues, administrators, families, and most of all your students!

Updated Resource List for Middle and High School

Transition Curriculum

COIN Series (http://www.coin3.com/special/default.asp)
Coin Educational Products 1-800-274-8515

• Career Targets ( Middle-High School levels)
• CLUE (Careers, Learning, Understanding, Exploring) (High School level)
• Basic Skills and Career Interest Survey
• Interest Assessment for Planning Post Secondary Education

Linguisystems 1-800-PRO IDEA (776-4332)
3100 4th Avenue
E. Moline , IL 61244

• Life Works: A Transition Program for High School Students (High School level) green
• Life Works: A Transition Program for High School Students (High School level) blue

(note: both of these books are more teacher-focused resources)

Meridian Education Corporation 1-800-727-5507
Children¹s Dictionary of Occupations , Hopke & Parramore

• Use at elementary school levels; also good for SH population at middle and high school.
• Appropriate for all age levels, although the pictures are geared for younger students.

Transition Series (5 books in series) :
Pro-Ed
8700 Shoal Creek Blvd.
Austin, TX 78757-6897

• Infusing Real-Life Topics into Existing Curriculum
• Self Determination Strategies (teacher strategies)
• Transitions from School to Young Adulthood
• Family Involvement in Transition Planning and Implementation
• Assessment for Transitions Planning ­ see page 35 - good for grades 7-12;

(Lists assessment instruments and target groups)

Young Persons' Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.careerbookstore.com/cgi-bin/detail2.pl?code=96350
Career Kids-FYI 1-800-537-0909; Fax: (916) 624-7267
Jist Publishing, 2003, 4th edition

• Descriptions for more than 260 top jobs ( Middle-High School levels)
  
  

Transition and Standards based curriculum

SCORE – Schools of California Online Resources for Educators
(CA Web based classroom resources – connecting California’s classrooms to the world) - http://www.score.k12.ca.us

State Workplace Skills and Language Arts Standards (uses Career Choices curriculum) - http://www.academicinnovations.com/standards.html

Center on Education and Work

University of Wisconsin
964 Educational Sciences Building
Madison , Wisconsin
1-800-446-0399 or 608-263-2929

MC Comics: The Action Files , Grades 4-8 http://www.pearsonlearning.com/mcp/mc_comics.cfm

• High interest/low vocabulary books

Additional Websites

• Accommodations Self-Assessment
  http://www.ldinfo.com/self-advocacy_chapter_5.htm#top
  (Scroll down to the accommodations worksheet)

• Disability Awareness – http://www.doe.state.in.us/exceptional/speced/independence/pdf/2004-01/TEN_WAYS_TO_SUCCEED.pdf

• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY) http://nichcy.org

• Parents Helping Parents – http://www.php.com

• SCANS – The Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (U.S. Department of Labor) http://wdr.doleta.gov/SCANS/whatwork/whatwork.pdf

• SRI-NLTS2 (latest research in progress) - http://www.nlts2.org/gindex.html

• Transition to Adult Living: A Guide for Secondary Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/sr/documents/transitiongde.pdf

• When you become 18 - http://www.foundationstatebarcal.org

Finally, do not forget to visit the Diagnostic Center Northern California’s homepage at http://www.dcn-cde.ca.gov and our Ask a Specialist website at http://www.askaspecialist.ca.gov. (look in the Transition archives for a previous question and answer – http://www.askaspecialist.ca.gov/archives/2003/transition/Dec_2003.htm - on Transition related resources)

Enjoy!