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The National Alliance for Secondary Education and Transition (NASET) is a national voluntary coalition of more than 40 organizations and advocacy groups representing special education, general education, career and technical education, youth development, multicultural perspectives, and parents.

The goals of NASET are to:

Identify what youth need in order to achieve successful participation in postsecondary education and training, civic engagement, meaningful employment, and adult life; and
Prioritize and address significant issues of national scale that have an impact on the provision of effective secondary education and transition services and policies for all youth.

See NASET Overview for more information.

National Standards & Quality Indicators: Transition Toolkit for Systems Improvement

This Web site offers the contents of NASET’s National Standards and Quality Indicators: Transition Toolkit for Systems Improvement. This document contains information and tools to provide a common and shared framework to help school systems and communities identify what youth need in order to achieve successful participation in postsecondary education and training, civic engagement, meaningful employment, and adult life. We see this framework as serving two important purposes:

Responding to requests from states, school districts, and service providers for information on:
- Research-based practices, programs, and services; and
- Benchmarks for effective secondary education and transition practices.
Addressing states' new responsibility to focus on accountability for each and every young person.

The National Standards & Quality Indicators are a set of research-based national standards and quality indicators that reflect the needs of all youth. They are organized in to the following five content areas:

See Introduction to the National Standards & Indicators for more information.

The Transition Toolkit also contains strategic planning tools designed to help states and school districts:

Better understand current operations;
Identify areas of strength, weakness, and opportunity;
Begin action for improving and scaling up systems; and
Assess progress.

You may download the tools from this Web site in PDF and MS Word formats.

See information about how states and local communities can use the NASET standards and indicators in strategic planning.

Contact NASET

Please contact us with your questions, comments, or suggestions (include your phone number, and the city and state where you live) at:

National Alliance for Secondary Education and Transition
c/o National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
Institute on Community Integration
University of Minnesota
6 Pattee Hall
150 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis MN 55455
johns042@umn.edu
612-624-1143

We will reply as soon as we can. Thank you for your interest!

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