Leadership for Effective Instruction for Students With Disabilities

The Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) partnered with the National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) at WestEd to explore how five state education agencies—New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, and Washington—were leading change to promote effective instruction for students with disabilities?  Using qualitative methods, this study explored how states framed the need for their work, their motivations for implementation efforts and challenges, key partnerships in establishing and implementing the work, perceived impacts, and reflections on lessons learned, missed opportunities, and planned next steps.

The analysis of SEA efforts also revealed seven primary levers used across the five states as a part of their systemic approaches to change. These seven primary levers are leveraging purposeful leadership, using data as a catalyst for action, engaging in continuous improvement, fostering strategic partnerships, increasing coherence and alignment, reimagining funding and resource allocation, and transcending a compliance-focused role.

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