Hopeful Transitions
Reimagining transition planning where each learner from grades 6 to 12 participates and is actively engaged in their career pathway and transition planning.
About Hopeful Transitions
A Model
The Hopeful Transitions model is a new direction in career pathway transition planning, based upon the principles of the Response to Intervention (RTI) model.
Tier 1, core classroom instruction, is based on the outcomes identified in the New Brunswick Career Education Framework and best practices of Career Connected Learning.
Tier 2 and 3 are the supports and/or interventions provided to those learners that require additional and/or individualized support(s) for career pathway transition planning.
Planning for transitions is not limited to helping students with career choice. The key to successful transitions is providing students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to improve their well-being and achieve their life goals. This planning cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach for students. Transition planning is unique to each learner as it is student-centered.
Career describes each learner’s journey through life, learning, and work.
“Hope can be described as the perceived ability to walk certain paths leading to a desired destination, and helps people stay motivated when walking these paths.”
– C. R. Snyder
Why Hopeful Transitions?
Our world is changing rapidly, and today’s learners will experience many transitions. To best position them with the skills, knowledge, and abilities for future success, we must recognize the importance of transition planning for each student. Every learner deserves a hopeful transition—one that encourages self-determination—to obtain employment and/or pursue their education, improve their economic and social well-being, and achieve their preferred future.
Simply put, a hopeful transition is a positive mental health intervention. If we believe that every learner deserves a hopeful future, it follows that personalized career pathway transition planning should be universally accessible to all.
Hopeful Transitions as an RTI model supports Universal Design for Career Education by providing Tier 1, 2, and 3 resources and activities to allow for equitable opportunity, access, and agency for all. In order to select the learning activities and resources you will incorporate into your practice, you’ll first need to understand your role within Hopeful Transitions.
Universal Design creates accessible opportunities as they relate to career pathway transition services. It links academic content with career pathway transition planning, instruction, and goals.
Next steps
Everything starts with planning your implementation. Learn how the whole school supports Hopeful Transitions.