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National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
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ABOUT NCSET
  • Our Mission: To create opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures.
  • Our Activities:
  • Disseminate information
  • Coordinate national resources
  • Offer technical assistance
  • Partnership of Six Organizations
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Six NCSET Partners
  • Institute on Community Integration,
    University of Minnesota
  • National Center for the Study of Postsecondary Educational Supports, University of Hawai’i
  • TransCen, Inc.
  • Institute for Educational Leadership
  • PACER Center
  • National Association of State Directors of Special Education


  • Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs
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This presentation will show…
  • How to navigate the Web site
  • The contents of each section of the site
  • How to view and print publications
  • How to e-mail someone a link on our site
  • How to conduct a search
  • How to submit your suggestions for the site
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NAVIGATING THE SITE
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The colorful boxes are important links
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Who we are and what we do is shown
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Links for navigation, partners, and search
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How to navigate within sections
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How to return home within the site
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CONTENTS of SITE
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TOPICS
Find information by Topic
  • Example Topics:
    • IEP & Transition Planning
    • Career Exploration & Guidance
    • Self-Determination
    • Accommodations
    • Parent/Professional Collaboration
    • Service Coordination


  • 28 Topics in All!
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Topics have 6 screens of content with links
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Select the drop-down menu to find a topic
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Or select the A-Z Index to find by keywords
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PUBLICATIONS
Series of briefs for target groups
  • Policy Update
  • Parent Brief
  • Information Brief
  • Issue Brief
  • Research to Practice Brief
  • What’s Working Data Brief
  • National Longitudinal Transition Study II (NLTS2) Data Brief
  • Full text available online!
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Links to all NCSET publications are available here
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Each publication links to the full text
and options for printing and e-mailing
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You can choose Printer-Friendly Format or Download PDF to print a file
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The Printer-Friendly Format option provides a
low-graphic version for easy printing
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The Download PDF option opens your PDF viewer to display the print-graphics version
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Select E-mail This Page to e-mail
a link to someone you know
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STATE RESOURCES
Find contacts in your area
  • State Transition Contacts
  • Regional Resource Center Contacts
  • State Directors of Special Education
  • Monitoring and State Improvement Planning - Part B Contacts
  • Rehabilitation Services Administration Transition Contacts
  • State Directors of Vocational Rehabilitation
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View contacts by State/Territory or nationwide
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To view contacts by state:
Select the contact group(s) and a state or territory
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To view contacts nationwide:
Scroll down the page and select the contact group
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Information is updated regularly
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EVENTS CALENDAR
Mark your calendar!
  • NCSET & Nat’l Events
  • Includes dates, locations, descriptions and links for more details.
  • Register online and participate in pre-institute activities for NCSET events.
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TELECONFERENCES
Hear from the experts by phone!
  • Technical Assistance
  • Nationally renowned speakers
  • One hour-long, once per month
  • Q&A at end of call


  • Transcripts of Past Calls
  • Download transcripts of past calls
  • Transcripts go back as far as 1996!
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INSTITUTES
Workshops to keep up-to-date!
  • Technical Assistance
  • Nationally renowned speakers
  • Team action planning
  • Breakout sessions
  • Register online!
  • Proceedings of Past Institutes
  • Download proceedings of past institutes
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E-NEWS
Link to new national resources!
  • Publications
  • New Web Sites & Listservs
  • Upcoming Events
  • New Projects & Programs
  • Grants & Scholarships
  • Legislative announcements
  • And more!
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E-News is…
  • E-mailed ~ 1st and 15th of each month
  • Available on our Web site as well
  • Archived & searchable on the Web site
  • Received by over 2,300 individuals
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Sign up from the main E-News page
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WEB SITES
Explore other national Web sites
  • Hundreds of links to Web sites
  • Organized by topical networks and alphabetically
  • Links checked and maintained weekly to keep them up-to-date!
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ABOUT NCSET
Learn more about us
  • Overview of NCSET
  • Technical Assistance Networks
  • NCSET Discussion Paper
  • Staff and Partner Information
  • Contact Information


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SEARCH
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It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!
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View Your Results
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Search Again From Results Page

Select a different radio button and hit “Search”
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You’ve Seen…
  • How to navigate the Web site
  • The contents of each section of the site
  • How to view and print publications
  • How to e-mail someone a link on our site
  • How to conduct a search


  • Now how can we do better?
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Submit Your Ideas…
  • For a new Topic for NCSET to address!
  • For adding a resource to the next E-News!
  • For improving the site!



  • …by e-mail at ncset@umn.edu
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www.NCSET.org
  • It’s only growing!
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