All Ours Inclusion Symposium 26

DESCRIPTION:
This session provides educators with practical tools to plan and deliver meaningful Community-Based Instruction (CBI) that helps transition-age students apply academic and functional skills in real-life settings. Participants will learn simple ways to integrate social skills—like communication, boundaries, and problem-solving—into community lessons to promote independence, safety, and confidence.

OBJECTIVES:
1. Explain the purpose and benefits of Community-Based Instruction for transition students.
2. Identify key social skills to target during CBI activities.
3. Design a short CBI activity that teaches and reinforces appropriate social interaction in a community setting.

DESCRIPTION:
This interactive session explores how to make Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings more meaningful, student-centered, and empowering by increasing student voice and participation. Educators will learn practical strategies to prepare students to take an active role in sharing their strengths, preferences, and goals during IEP meetings. Through modeling, discussion, and planning tools, participants will walk away ready to implement student-led IEP practices that foster self-advocacy, confidence, and ownership of learning and future planning.

OBJECTIVES:
1. Define what a student-led IEP is and explain its importance in promoting self-advocacy and student agency.
2. Identify strategies and scaffolds for eliciting student voice before and during IEP meetings.
3. Develop tools or prompts that support students in sharing their strengths, needs, preferences, and postsecondary goals.
4. Plan next steps for integrating student-led IEP practices within their own classrooms, transition services, or district systems.