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Project 10 Support for Florida School Districts
Florida’s school districts are the central stakeholders and primary recipients of Project 10’s services, resources, and statewide support efforts. Much of Project 10’s work is intentionally designed to meet district needs—sharing up-to-date secondary transition information, clarifying transition activity requirements and compliance expectations, building staff capacity, and helping districts strengthen transition planning and services for students across Florida.
Examples of supports available to districts include:
Technical Assistance
a) In-person, virtual, and email-based coaching and information dissemination on improving transition individual education plan compliance (Project 10's Indicator 13 Page).
b) Support with aligning transition planning assessments, postsecondary goals, and secondary transition services.
c) Problem-solving, data analysis, and support to school districts aimed at improving student graduation outcomes through the use of early warning systems.
d) Step-by-step guidance and problem-solving facilitation to support the school district's implementation of extended transition programs and services for students with disabilities who defer receipt of a standard diploma.
e) 18–22 Structured Work-Study Initiative- Intensive and targeted Project 10 support, including monetary, technical assistance and training, to select Florida school districts showing need for initial or enhanced extended transition program and services development to support students with disabilities who have deferred receipt of a standard diploma.
f) Updating Local Education Agencies (LEAs) on recent and potential legislative changes to secondary transition planning requirements and compliance.
g) Facilitation and completion of Project 10 District Support Summaries for each Florida school district, documenting essential data, district needs, and planned resources to inform targeted supports throughout the school year.
h) Dissemination of state and national secondary transition planning resources, research, and tools to support more effective and efficient practices that lead to positive post-school outcomes for students.
To learn more about the secondary transition topics we support, visit Project 10's homepage at www.project10info.com
Trainings
Project 10 trainings provide comprehensive, vetted information designed to strengthen the professional learning of Florida educators, secondary transition leaders, and other district stakeholders. These trainings support, enhance, and inform effective secondary transition planning. Sessions are offered in virtual or in-person formats, facilitated by Project 10 staff, and can be adapted to meet each school district's logistical needs. Some of the most popular trainings include:
a) Beyond the Paperwork: Building Transition Individual Education Plans (TIEPs) that Launch Futures (Revised October 2025)
This training highlights key transition activities—from assessments to diploma deferment and 18–22 programs—and demonstrates how effective TIEPs guide the overall transition planning process.
b) Deferment Foundations: What It Is, Why It Matters, and the Individual Education Plan Considerations for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Postsecondary Life (Revised October 2025)
This school-district targeted training clarifies diploma deferment eligibility and procedures, covering required timelines, legislative foundations, impacts on transition IEP development, student scenarios, and extended transition options, along with common questions and quality practices.
c) Using Transition Assessments to Write Measurable Postsecondary Goals (Revised June 2025)
Participants learn how to select assessments, interpret results, and write compliant, individualized postsecondary goals aligned with each student’s strengths, preferences, interests, and needs.
d) The Future Starts Now: Preparing for Secondary Transition in Middle School
This training provides strategies to support students as they move into middle and high school, emphasizing early planning and state requirements to address long-term secondary and postsecondary transition needs.
For more information on training opportunities and topics available for school districts, please reach out to your Project 10 Regional Transition Representative (RTR). A comprehensive list of Project 10 training titles can be found here: https://project10.info/DPage.php?ID=319
Statewide Events and Webinars
The following is a selection of statewide events and webinars that Project 10 has hosted, delivered, or participated in. This list includes both upcoming opportunities and examples of past sessions—some developed by Project 10 and others presented in collaboration with our partners.
a) "Myth-Busting: Deferment of Receipt of a Standard Diploma” webinar series (Part 1: January and May, 2024; Part 2: December, 2024).
b) Annual Project 10 Winter Institutes (March 2026) — details forthcoming.
c) Statewide Transition Contacts Meeting (TCM), virtual event in Spring 2026 — details forthcoming.
d) The Bureau of Standards and Instructional Supports (BSIS) Summer 2025 Professional Learning Events: Project 10 Collaboration with FIN: “Collaborative Teaching and Planning for Students with Disabilities.”
Past conference and webinar materials and presentations can be accessed here, and be on the lookout for upcoming webinars and conferences here.
Publications and Resources
Here are several of Project 10’s most frequently used publications and resources for school districts, offering practical tools to guide effective secondary transition planning.
a) Transition Requirements Checklist
This is a comprehensive checklist of transition requirements that provides age-specific details about when they should occur in the Transition Individual Educational Plan (TIEP).
b) Transition Assessments Chart
This chart provides a list of formal and informal transition assessments that range from aptitude tests to questionnaires and interest inventories. Information about finding the assessments online is provided.
c) Graduation Options Chart
This document includes two graduation options charts. Each of them contains detailed descriptions of all the credit requirements for each of the common graduation options. The first chart describes graduation requirements for students who entered 9th grade prior to the 2023-24 school year and the second chart describes graduation requirements for students who entered 9th grade in or after 2023-24.
d) Essential Steps in Secondary Transition Planning for Students with Significant Support Needs
This booklet focuses on secondary transition planning for students with significant support needs. A brief overview of what you will find in this publication includes the following: a thorough review of secondary transition services; examples of how to connect secondary transition services to the course of study and the development of measurable postsecondary goals; and a variety of examples of measurable postsecondary goals for students with significant support needs.
e) Self-Determination and Self-Advocacy Guide
This guide provides an overview of self-determination and self-advocacy which includes the following: definitions, teacher-led instruction, instructional strategies and the requirement to consider the student's need for self-determination instruction in the individual educational plan (IEP).
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