Jessica Sipovic's schedule for 2024 TASH Conference

Welcome to the official website for the 2024 TASH Conference!

Each year, the TASH Conference brings together our constituents to share resources and success stories, learn about field-driven best practices, and network within a community engaged in shared values. The Conference is attended by passionate leaders, experts, and advocates from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees are influential in their fields and communities, and play an important role in the provision of services and supports for individuals and organizations around the world; and include professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; self-advocates, adult service providers; students, family members, and many others. This year’s conference theme is Celebrate Together: Let the Good Times Roll!

Click on the "Registration and More" tab for additional information about our Conference location, registration, reserving a guest room, sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities, and more! The full Conference schedule is now available for viewing. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to log in and create a personalized schedule.

Jessica Sipovic

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Training Specialist

Chicago, Illinois

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About me

Jessica Sipovic is a training specialist for the Illinois Center for Transition and Work through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has over 15 years of experience working with children and adults with diverse needs in school, home, and community settings. Most recently, Jessica served as the transition manager for Chicago Public Schools for five years supporting over 600 schools with approximately 24,000 students with transition services as a part of their IEP. As a former special education teacher, Jessica started her career teaching in the residential therapeutic environment and had the opportunity to teach in Australia before joining Chicago Public Schools in 2011. Her last three years in the classroom were spent at two of Chicago's transition centers, instructing students ages 18-22 in community-based classrooms to facilitate a seamless transition from school to post-school life. As both a classroom teacher and transition specialist, Jessica has focused her career on finding creative ways to address transition services for students with disabilities using an equity lens and a student-centered approach.

My Presenters Sessions

4:35pm CST

12 Strategies For Facilitating Transportation to Work-Based Learning Sites! 3RD Floor - Ballroom: Celestin FStacy Dymond • Melanie Phelan • Jessica Sipovic • Nicole Birri

4:15pm CST

Work-Based Learning: Practical Strategies For Job Development and Establishing Community Worksites For Transition Aged Youth 4TH Floor - Imperial 11Melanie Phelan • Jessica Sipovic