building state capacity for scaling up effective education practices
- Purpose
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The purpose of the State Implementation of Scaling-up Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center is to promote students' academic achievement and behavioral health by supporting implementation and scaling-up of evidence-based practices in education settings. SISEP will provide the critical content and foundation for establishing a technology of large-scale, sustainable, high-fidelity implementation of effective educational practices. SISEP will work with selected states to improve their capacity to carry out implementation, organizational change, and systems transformation strategies to maximize achievement outcomes of all students in each state.
- People
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SISEP is a five year Technical Assistance Center funded through the Office of Special Education Programs. Drs. Dean Fixsen and Karen Blase at the University of South Florida are principal investigators for this effort with major collaboration with Dr. George Sugai at the University of Connecticut and Dr. Robert Horner at the University of Oregon.
SISEP staff include Michael Coyne at the University of Connecticut, and Melissa Van Dyke, Frances Wallace, Jonathan Wilson, and Dawn Khalil, University of South Florida.
A National Advisory Board and an Evaluation Team are being developed and will be announced soon.
- Outcomes
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SISEP will work with six states over a five year period. Each state already will be engaged in implementing evidence-based educational practices. Through collaboration with the SISEP, states will build the organizational capacity to move proven practices to large scale, sustained implementation.
States working with SISEP will focus initially on evidence-based practices currently being implemented with fidelity in each state.
Outcomes will assess (a) the state organizational capacity for scaling, (b) the number of schools (and proportion of schools) implementing evidence-based practices to criterion, (c) outcomes for students, and (d) the sustainability and efficiency of evidence-based practices when implemented at scale.
