SISEP Partners
SISEP is one of several technical assistance centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education and its Office of Special Education Programs. The SISEP Center is focused on developing State capacity for large-scale implementations of evidence-based practices to produce good outcomes for all students. The SISEP Center works in collaboration with existing TA Centers to coordinate efforts, maximize benefits to states, and maximize the use of resources in each State.
The SISEP Center and the Regional Resource Center (RRC) programs (all funded by OSEP) have negotiated a partnership to better serve the States involved in scaling up evidence-based practices and other innovations. The RRCs expressed an interest in working more closely with SISEP as scaling up work began. This request fit well with the interest of SISEP in creating greater capacity and sustainability in education. After some discussion, SISEP described the need for individuals who have some experience in the more active forms of implementation, who can devote a minimum of 0.25 time to the SISEP States, and who can pay their own travel and other expenses for monthly visits from their RRC home base to one or more of the SISEP active scaling up States. In return, the RRC persons are to be fully included in SISEP planning, visits to States, and training experiences provided to any and all levels of staff in each State. After a selection process by the RRCs and by the SISEP Center, Ann Bailey and Ron Dughman were selected to join the SISEP Center work. This year, Ann Bailey retired from the position and Jeanna Mullins took up the reins. Our thanks to Arlene Russell and Maureen Hawes, who represented the RRC Program Governance Team, and to Jennifer Coffey (OSEP Project Officer for the SISEP Center) and Rex Shipp (OSEP Project Officer for the RRC Programs), who actively promoted the productive collaboration that has formed.
In addition, the SISEP Center has benefitted from the cooperative arrangements with and support from the Center on Innovation and Improvement (system change information), Center for Implementing Technology in Education (dissemination of information on implementation), Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center (cooperative work on State implementation), National Math + Science Initiative (information sharing regarding scaling up strategies), National Technical Assistance Coordination Center (assistance with information dissemination, managing communities of practice, and managing workgroups), North Central Regional Resource Center (collaboration on using Response to Intervention in schools), Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center (coordinating implementation knowledge for States), National Center on Response to Intervention (participation in workgroups), Systems Thinking Priority Team (a group established by OSEP to facilitate system change), Western Regional Resource Center (webinars and other information sharing regarding implementation Drivers and Stages), and others who have given their time and thoughtful assistance to the scaling up efforts.
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