Matrix Centers
Leadership
Center on State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices
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.
IDEA Partnership
As the No Child Left Behind Act focuses educators on performance improvement of students with disabilities, there is an urgent and common need among special and general educators to find new ways to understand each other and work together effectively. This project of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) will help policy makers, service providers, administrators, and families translate knowledge into action in a way that creates personal meaning and informs their work and interactions every day.
NIUSI-Leadscape
NIUSI-LeadScape directly assists at least 400 principals across the country to develop and implement inclusive schools to ensure their students with and without disabilities meet or exceed academic standards set by their states and measured by state assessment systems. Based on the Leadership Academy modules developed and field tested by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI), NIUSI-LeadScape brings principals around the county into sustained professional communities focused on leadership for inclusive schools. Each semi-annual academy incorporates research-based effective strategies and methods for professional learning as well as research-based effective content on what principals need to know and do to achieve effective, inclusive schools.