{"id":8464,"date":"2013-03-12T19:13:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T23:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tashorg.wpengine.com\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2013-03-12T19:13:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T23:13:57","slug":"tash-partners-with-swift-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tash.org\/tash-partners-with-swift-center\/","title":{"rendered":"TASH Partners with SWIFT Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

This update is the first edition of what will be an ongoing series on the TASH blog to keep you updated on TASH\u2019s role in the SWIFT Center (School Wide Integrated Framework for Transformation). The SWIFT Center is a national technical assistance center funded by the Office of Special Education Programs to implement a model for educating general and special education students together to improve schoolwide academic outcomes. The following update is provided by TASH Education Policy Director Jenny Stonemeier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click to view all updates regarding the SWIFT Center<\/a><\/p>\n

The SWIFT Center is an OSEP funded national technical assistance center.\u00a0 SWIFT stands for School Wide Integrated Framework for Transformation.\u00a0 The Center is housed at University of Kansas with Dr. Wayne Sailor as the principal investigator and Center Director.\u00a0 Amy McCart, from KU, is the Director of Technical Assistance and Alfredo Artiles, from Arizona State University serves as the Cultural Responsiveness Analyst.<\/p>\n

There are 8 leadership teams that are responsible for different aspects of the Center\u2019s work.\u00a0 Teams include:<\/p>\n

Inclusive Education Implementation
\n<\/strong>Carol Quirk, MCIE
\n<\/span>Mary Schuh, U of New Hampshire<\/span><\/p>\n

UDL-Curriculum\/Instruction Enhancements
\n<\/strong>Don Deshler, KU
\n<\/span>Mike Hock, KU<\/span><\/p>\n

MTSS\/RTI Implementation
\n<\/strong>Nikki Wolf, KU<\/span><\/p>\n

Family\/Community Engagement
\n<\/strong>Ann Turnbull, KU
\n<\/span>Rud Turnbull, KU<\/span><\/p>\n

Policy Alignment and Stakeholder Engagement
\n<\/strong>Barb Trader, TASH
\n<\/span>Curtis Richards, IEL<\/span><\/p>\n

Capacity Building\/Sustainability\/Scale Up
\n<\/strong>Leonard Burrello, University of South Florida
\n<\/span>Elizabeth Kozleski, KU<\/span><\/p>\n

Formative Evaluation and Data Management
\n<\/strong>Rob Horner, U of Oregon
\n<\/span>Kathleen Lane, KU<\/span><\/p>\n

Communication and Knowledge Dissemination
\n<\/strong>Brandon Worrell, Clickfarm Interactive<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Teams are collaborating now to determine selection criteria for the 6 Knowledge Development Sites, which will serve as best practice models for the project to learn from.\u00a0 Teams are also involved in determining selection criteria for 4 states that will be partners in the Center.\u00a0 Once state selection is completed, we will move on to district and school level selection. All in all, there will be 4 states, 4 school districts, and 4 schools in each district for a total of 64 schools participating.<\/p>\n

TASH\u2019s role is a Team Leader for the Policy Alignment and Stakeholder Engagement Team.\u00a0 In this capacity, we will work with the Institute for Educational Leadership to help schools, districts, and states align their policies to support inclusive education.\u00a0 We will produce deliverables for a broad range of stakeholders, including parents, advocates, educators, and community members.\u00a0 As part of our work we are looking to establish evidence based practices for policy alignment in inclusive education.\u00a0 If any member of the IE committee has resources, please feel free to share them with Jenny Stonemeier or Barb Trader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This update is the first edition of what will be an ongoing series on the TASH blog to keep you updated on TASH\u2019s role in the SWIFT Center (School Wide Integrated Framework for Transformation). The SWIFT Center is a national technical assistance center funded by the Office of Special Education Programs to implement a model […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[36],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}