About the SISEP Center

The State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center is a national technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs.

SISEP is based at the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The SISEP Center provides technical assistance to (1) increase knowledge of evidence-based implementation supports for evidence-based practices in States, Districts, and OSEP funded Technical Assistance Centers; (2) establish implementation infrastructures in State Education Agencies and Local Education Agencies in support of full and effective use of evidence-based approaches to education; and (3) establish implementation capacity in Technical Assistance Centers and projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs.

Purpose of SISEP

The purpose of the SISEP Center is to help to establish State, regional, and district capacity to provide the critical content and foundation for establishing large-scale, sustainable, high-fidelity implementation of effective education practices to maximize academic and social outcomes of all students, especially those students with disabilities. This work is accomplished through the use of the science of implementation and strategies for organization change.

The SISEP Center provides States and Districts with:

• Intensive technical assistance for establishing an effective and affordable infrastructure for implementation of evidence based programs
• Coordinated and shared professional learning via webinars and communities of practice
• Online and off-line coaching, teaching and learning about implementation, scaling, and system reinvention
• Tools and resources for conducting this work, including formative and summative evaluation tools for action planning, monitoring and outcome assessment.

Project Staff

Dean Fixsen, Co-Director
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Barbara Sims, Co-Director
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Karen Blase, Associate Director
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Rob Horner, Associate Director
robh@uoregon.edu

George Sugai, Associate Director
george.sugai@uconn.edu

Michelle Duda, Senior Implementation Specialist
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Jonathan Green, Communications Specialist
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Will Aldridge, Implementation Specialist
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Steve Goodman, Consultant
s.goodman@me.com

Jeanna Mullins, Mid-South Regional Resource Center
jmullin@uky.edu

Ron Dughman, Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center
Ron.Dughman@usu.edu

Jennifer Coffey, OSEP Project Officer
Jennifer.Coffey@ed.gov

Vicki Meyers, OSEP Project Officer
Vicki.Meyers@ed.gov

Ingrid Oxaal, OSEP Project Officer
Ingrid.Oxaal@ed.gov