Third Annual Summit “Sustainability: Implementing Programs That Survive 100 Years” April 24, 2008 Berkeley, CA

1. Third Annual Summit “Sustainability: Implementing Programs That Survive 100 Years” April 24, 2008 Berkeley, CA

2. The Summit “Overview” Who we are The desired outcomes for the Summit Who you are How we will reach those outcomes together

3. The Wing Institute • independent, non-profit organization • founded in 2005 • mission: to promote evidence-based education policies and practices • experience and expertise operating "research based" education services in “real world” settings • named after Ernie Wing

4. The Wing Institute’s Strategic Vision act as a “catalyst” to promote an evidence-based education culture by supporting individuals and organizations currently engaged in evidence based education

5. The Wing Institute’s Strategic Vision • Identify exemplars in evidence-based education research individuals policies models programs organizations • Develop networks to facilitate collaboration • Provide support for new ideas, research, and publications • Facilitate cross-discipline cooperation • Emphasize immediate solutions in the real-world as well as long-term system changes

6. The Wing Institute Services • Publications • Research (Grants for Graduate Student Research) • Public Policy Analyses • Information Clearinghouse • The Evidence-based Education Knowledge Network • Professional Forums

7. Offer a Model of Evidence-based Service Delivery: Based on our Roadmap The purpose of the “Roadmap” is to: • Provide an expanded model for bridging the gap between research and practice • Define the primary components of an evidence-based culture, their functions, and how they relate to each other. • Illustrate the necessary and continuous reciprocal nature of influence between research and practice

8. Research to Practice Evidence-based Education Research Replicability Sustainability Practice

9. Evidence-based education: the problem Despite recent attention, there is still a disconnect between research and practice… • Too many practices with proven research results fail when implemented in “real world” settings. • Too many practices with poor or no research are adopted and continue to be implemented despite poor results.

10. The Wing Institute 3rd Annual Summit “Sustainability”: Implementing Programs That Survive 100 Years The “Summit” brings together leaders in their field for a working session on the topic sustainability. The Summit is designed to facilitate communication, collaboration, and cooperation among a diverse group of invited guests.

11. SUMMIT Participants: Organizations 45 different organizations 9 consumer / parent / advocacy / DD organizations parent groups regional centers CA DDS area boards advocacy groups service orgs 14 public school organizations school districts SELPAs Adult education 15private service organizations nonpublic schools nonpublic agencies health psychology 14 universities and research education school psychology pediatrics social welfare special education 8 Public agencies State department of Education State Department of Mental Health

12. SUMMIT Participants: professional disciplines administrator advocate attorney behavior analyst case manager community outreach consultant curriculum designer legislative aide parent physician professors psychiatrist psychologist researcher school administrator school psychologist speech therapist teacher

14. Summit Strategies for Meeting Outcomes How we are going to answer this today. Pre-Summit Readings Resource Packet Presentations Work groups Panel Q&A Networking Knowledge Network

15. Summit Strategies: PRESENTATIONS Sustainability: “What the Research Tells Us” Ronnie Detrich Sustainability: “A Context” Randy Keyworth Sustainability the First Thing. The Only Thing? Dean Fixsen Ph.D. Evolution of the Revolution: How Can Evidence-based Practice Work in the Real World? Bruce Chorpita Ph.D. Sustainability and Scaling and the Failure of the Friday Inservice Day George Sugai, Ph.D.

16. PRE-SUMMIT READINGS Best Practices in Developing a Broad-Scale System of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support, George Sugai, Robert Horner, and Kent McIntosh (2007). Policy and Process: Means to Lasting Educational Change. Jeff Grimes and W. David Tilly, 2007 Biennial Report Effective Psychosocial Interventions for Youth and Behavioral and Emotional Needs. State of Hawaii

17. RESOURCE PACKET Resource List of Articles and Free Publications Exemplary Evidence-Based Initiatives Research: Evaluation, Dissemination, Technical Assistance Interventions: Systems, Practice, Consumers Dissemination Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature National Implementation Research Network Sustainability: Examining the Survival of Schools’ Comprehensive School Reform Efforts American Institutes of Research School-wide Positive Behavior Support: Implementers’ Blueprint and Self-Assessment OSEP Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports The Road to Sustainability: Sustainability Workbook Afterschool Alliance Tri- Level Development: It’s the System Education Week 2005

18. Summit Resource List • The Break-Even Point: When Medical Advances Are Less Important Than Improving the Fidelity With Which They Are Delivered. • Community-Based Prevention Using Simple, Low-Cost, Evidence-Based Kernels And Behavior Vaccines. • Complexity Science: Coping with Complexity: Educating for Capability. • Diffusion of Innovations in Service Organizations: Systematic Review and Recommendations. • Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. • From Data to Wisdom: Quality Improvement Strategies Supporting Large-scale Implementation of Evidence-Based Services. • Getting Better at Getting Them Better: Health Outcomes and Evidence-Based Practice Within a System of Care. • Implementation: The Missing Link Between Research and Practice. • Identifying and Selecting the Common Elements of Evidence Based Interventions: A Distillation and Matching Model. • School Turnarounds: A Review Of The Cross Sector Evidence On Dramatic Organizational Improvement. Public Impact for the Center of Innovation and Improvement Public Impact, • Understanding the Common Elements of Evidence-Based Practice: Misconceptions and Clinical Examples.

19. Summit Strategies: WORK GROUPS The purpose of the workgroups is to offer interactive activities focused on topics of the Summit that allow participants to network, problem solve, and hear from a diverse group of stakeholders. Implementation Exercise - Dean Fixsen Educational Services Process Modeling Exercise - Bruce Chorpita

20. Summit Strategies: PANEL DISCUSSION Panel Discussion with the days three presenters: Bruce Chorptia. Dean Fixsen, and George Sugai Q&A from audience: The questions to be selected from the working groups

21. Summit Strategies WING KNOWLEDGE NETWORK • Free Copy of “Advances in Evidence-based Education” • Free Subscription to “Journal of Evidence-based Practices in Schools”

22. Summit Housekeeping • Schedule(9:00 end 4:00) • Breaks(9:15, 11:00, 1:30, and 2:45 lasting 15 minutes) • Networking - Issue of seating • Lunch(12:05 lasting 45 min. and is provided by The Wing Institute) • Bathrooms • Assistance(Jin An is available to help with any and all issues) • Next Years Date(April 23, 2009)

23. Research to Practice Evidence-based Education Research Replicability Sustainability Practice