Get the Picture?! Guiding and Engaging Exceptional Teens

Get the Picture?! is a multi-layered initiative designed to build capacity in both adults and students within schools to increase college and career readiness for students with disabilities. Each student with disabilities in treatment schools receives one-on-one support through a school-based Career Strategist, meeting at least weekly to monitor the student's Individual Learning Plan, which focuses on college and/or career readiness with realistic goals and action steps for life after high school. The Career Strategist works with the student to ensure the student's aspirations and aptitudes inform their personalized career pathways, and that coursework supports and aligns to their career plan. Each treatment school also has a school-based Support Team—including College/Career Readiness (CCR) Coaches, Lead Career Strategist, Career Strategist, special education teachers, and counselors—that coordinates and monitors one-on-one work and student-to-strategist matches. The school-based Support Team meets at least four times per academic year to make data-driven decisions to support college and career readiness for all students with disabilities. CCR Coaches provide CCR-focused instruction to students while supporting strategists and other educators, working directly in participating schools providing ongoing, embedded support and modeling.