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    SWIFT Education Center is a national technical assistance center that builds school capacity for equity-based inclusion—that is, an educational system that values every student as a member of the neighborhood school and that has the infrastructure and practices in place to provide academic and behavioral supports to improve the outcomes for all students, including those with the most extensive support needs. SWIFT technical assistance supports state education agencies, districts, and schools as they become excellent and equitable teaching and learning environments for all students.

    Visit the The SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Education Center Website

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    Projects

    Ensuring Mental Health Needs are Met for All Students Through a Multi-Tiered System of Support
    Project DataWall: A Decision Support System for MTSS
    Equity Leadership in High Need Schools: Building High Quality Effective Instructional Leaders to Improve Student Outcomes
    Orange County ACCESS Principal Coaching
    ACCESS Executive Leadership

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    LSI's SWIFT Education Center lands $17M grant to train principals, boost school achievement
    SWIFT project featured on Time-Warner cable
    Parents, experts make the case for inclusive schools
    KU Center to partner on California statewide educational reform initiative
    What if educators could instantly and securely access and analyze students’ academic and discipline records, get expert strategies for improvement, and track the results?
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Life Span Institute Centers

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  • Center for Community Health and Development
  • Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment
  • Child Language Doctoral Program (CLDP)
  • Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC)
  • Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities (KUCDD)
  • Merrill Advanced Studies Center
  • The Center for Research on Learning (CRL)
  • The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training (K-CART)
  • The Life Span Institute at Parsons
  • The SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Education Center (SWIFT)
  • Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú (CASP)

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Centers

  • Beach Center on Disability
  • Center for Community Health and Development
  • The Center for Research on Learning
  • Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment
  • Child Language Doctoral Program
  • Juniper Gardens Children's Project
  • Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
  • Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities
  • Merrill Advanced Studies Center
  • The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training
  • The Life Span Institute at Parsons
  • The SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Center
  • Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú

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