Expect, Empower, Engage Resource Database

Description: A book study is a popular method of capacity building in schools, districts, and systems. This Book Study in a Box includes a Facilitator Guide, a Facilitator Implementation Guide, and a Participant Guide to support agencies in conducting a book study for the book Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems, by Michael Fullan and Joanne Quinn (2016, Corwin Press). These resources can promote professional learning at the system level and help leaders build capacity about comprehensive improvement models to better school systems and improved student outcomes.

The Rehabilitation Act and its regulations require VR agencies to enter into formal interagency agreements with SEAs describing how the entities will collaboratively plan and coordinate transition services for students with disabilities needing those services. This formal interagency agreement is an important foundational document that helps to ensure students with disabilities experience a smooth transition from school to post-school activities. To support these efforts, RSA, in collaboration with OSEP, created this review instrument for formal interagency agreements between SEAs and VR agencies.

The VRTAC-QM and NTACT-C developed this guide for the development of policies and procedures for VR agencies in the provision of pre-employment transition services.

This online module focuses on the transition process from high school to post-secondary settings. Key topics include individualized education program planning, engaging students in the process so as to become better advocates for their own needs, and the importance of outside agencies such as vocational rehabilitation.

This policy overview of the IEP process provides recommendations for families to partner with their schools to support their children through the transition process, including strategizing around transition planning

This online module focuses on the process of developing high-quality IEPs for students with disabilities. Key topics include the requirements for IEPs as outlines in IDEA, the implications of the Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District Supreme Court ruling, and how to effectively plan IEP goals focusing on post-secondary transition.

This guide provides a policy overview of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services, and highlights eligibility requirements as mandated by IDEA and WIOA to participate in VR services. 

These six guides and accompanying videos provide families and educators of students with disabilities with policy-informed information about facilitation, mediation, written state complaints, due process complaints, resolution meetings, and expedited due process complaints.

This video follows the stories of several parents and self-advocates as they address questions and concerns about supporting youth with disabilities as they engage in the transition to adulthood.