Scaling Up

Below are the workplans for the Scaling Up director.

• Workplan 2009-10

The state of Oregon is implementing Scaling Up as a participant in a Federal Model Demonstration Project guided by the State Implementation and Scaling Up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) based at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The State Implementation and Scaling up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center helps States establish adequate capacity to carry out effective implementation, organization change, and system transformation strategies to maximize the academic achievement and behavioral health outcomes for students Statewide.

Scaling up is defined as having enough of something so that it is useful to individuals and to society. Scaling up is the process of moving from “exemplars” to the “typical.” The process of scaling involves the development of organizational capacity to move from exemplars sustained by extra-ordinary supports, to typical application with organizations and systems that are designed to make full, effective, and sustained use of innovations.

According to SISEP, this type of change occurs in a simultaneous bottom up and top down manner. Every new policy sets the occasion for creating new capacity to effectively implement the policy with demonstrable benefits to students, families, and communities. New practices that are implemented set the occasion for discovering and creating the infrastructure supports, policy revisions, and funding streams needed to further develop and expand capacity. This leads to a never ending cycle to sustain and improve both the innovation and the infrastructure supports for the innovation for years to come.

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