National Capacity Building Institute

Invited Speakers

David R. Johnson, Ph.D. is presently Director of the Institute on Community Integration (University Affiliated Program), and Director of the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration, College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Johnson has more than 25 years of research, technical assistance and dissemination experience with a strong emphasis on secondary education and transition services. Over the years, Dr. Johnson has been the principal investigator and director of several federal and state research, training and demonstration projects in the areas of school-to-work transition, vocational education, interagency collaboration, secondary special education, employment, community living, and others. Dr. Johnson has directed the National Transition Network and has been a major partner of the National Transition Alliance for Youth with Disabilities. His specific research interests include investigations of the post school outcomes and status of young adults with disabilities, evaluations concerning access and participation of young adults with disabilities in postsecondary education programs and employment, studies on systems change, cost-benefit analysis, and other policy-related research.

The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition is funded by and is a partner with the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, cooperative agreement # H326J000005.

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