SISEP

=State Implementation & Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center=

In July of 2011, The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) entered into a partnership with the State Implementation and Scaling up Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center. The SISEP Center is a program of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at UNC Chapel Hill and the National Implementation Research Network and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and its Office of Special Education Programs. //"The role of the SISEP Center is to build the capacity of state education systems to implement and scale up effective education innovations statewide, so that every student can benefit from the intended outcomes."//

SISEP Focuses on Implementation Capacity
SISEP works with states to:
 * install the implementation science frameworks in the teaming structures
 * align state systems to increase coherence and efficiency
 * establish the innovation and implementation supports in a transformation zone
 * use data to monitor results
 * manage the change process to reduce errors and promote implementation capacity development statewide.

The SISEP Center uses implementation strategies to do two important things:
 * 1) //Build capacity in districts to assure adequate implementation supports for school leaders, staff, and teachers. In this way, the building leaders, teachers, and staff can make full and effective uses of evidence-based programs when interacting with students.//
 * Students cannot benefit from effective education practices they do not experience.
 * An effective practice is only half of the formula for success; effective implementation support is the other half. Neither one is useful to student education without the other.
 * 1) //Build capacity in State systems and regional organizations so they can develop the necessary district implementation supports.//
 * District staff cannot provide competent implementation supports to schools and teachers unless the district staff develop these new competencies themselves.
 * In effect, the State and regional staff are using implementation strategies to develop implementation capacity in districts.