Molly Maher

Project-Recommendations
 Improving the Yellow Brick Road:
Increasing the Number of Students
with Disabilities with a Confirmed
Post-Secondary
Implications for Sector - My Research & Graduate Work
Plan
Motivation

“The transition to adulthood is central to both the “The ‘life course’ refers to a pattern of

reproduction of the social class hierarchy and the socially defined, age-graded events and role

alleviation of poverty, and the transition is of which a subject is to historical change in

fundamentally institutional.The transition to culture and social structure.” (3).

adulthood is pivotal in the reproduction of

socioeconomic status and in social and economic

mobility.” (Lerner & L. Steinberg 2009, p. 1)

Problem: On December 18th, at
HTHMA, (0/5) students in 12th grade
with IEPS had confirmed
post-secondary transition plans.
 -Individualized Meetings with Students

Change Ideas -Communication with Parents

-Involving Experts

-Student Belongingness
Results: On May 1st, at HTHMA,
(4/5) students in 12th grade with IEPS
had confirmed post-secondary
transition plans.
Conclusions & Recommendations

1. Start the Process EARLY

2. Trifecta Communication & Build Parent Involvement
3. Build Student Belongment and Engagement
4. School Structures and Staff Relationships

How It Ended
Implications for Site

1. Students with disabilities to be the

forefront of the conversation and priority
2. The Trifecta Communication
3. Effective Structures