coe-staff: GRANT MATTERS Update: TA Center on EBP in Special Education to be Competed, August 1 deadline

[Linda Lewis]

The US Office of Special Education is inviting applications for a 
Technical Assistance Center to Support Implementation of Evidence-based 
Practices (84.326K) under the IDEA TA/Dissemination Program.

This Center will assist SEAs, regional TA providers, LEAs, schools, and 
Department-funded TA providers in improving the educational achievement 
of children with disabilities in K-12 education systems by building an 
implementation infrastructure to scale up implementation supports (e.g., 
training, coaching, administrative support, and data-based 
decision-making) in order to support EBPs statewide.

The Center will:

(1) Provide assistance to SEAs in developing an implementation 
infrastructure that will support the effective use of EBPs to improve 
the educational achievement of children with disabilities throughout a 
State;

(2) assist SEAs, regional TA providers, LEAs, and schools in providing 
implementation supports for the effective use of EBPs to improve the 
educational achievement of children with disabilities;

(3) assist SEAs, regional TA providers, LEAs, and schools in using 
funding, policies, data systems, personnel, and partnerships with IHEs 
and communities to provide implementation supports;

(4) assist in building evaluation systems and evaluation measures, when 
necessary, that SEAs, regional TA providers, LEAs, and schools can use 
to evaluate the implementation of EBPs, their implementation 
infrastructure, and their implementation supports;

(5) support the expanded use of EBPs in States and LEAs;

(6) create training modules and support documents that can help SEAs, 
regional TA providers, LEAs, and schools strengthen their implementation 
infrastructure and improve their implementation supports for the 
effective use of EBPs to improve the educational achievement of children 
with disabilities; and

(7) train Department-funded TA providers so that they can assist States 
in this work.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:August 1, 2012

AWARD:1 award at $1.1 million/year for up to 5 years (3 plus an optional 
2 additional years based on performance).

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-07-02/pdf/2012-16173.pdf


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Linda Lewis
Office of Associate Dean for Research and Outreach
College of Education, HEDCO 230Q
1215 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1215
541-346-1394
lmlewis at uoregon.edu

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