Mission
We are committed to upholding human dignity by challenging exclusionary practices through systemic change and advocacy, ensuring all students, particularly those with disabilities, have the access, support, and opportunities needed to achieve fair outcomes and a true sense of belonging.

Goals
California State Performance Indicators Improve LEA's performance on state performance indicators 3, 5, 6, and 7.   Opportunities and Access Increase opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in general education LRE and show improvement in academic achievement

 

 

We believe that achieving sustainable change in culture, policy, and practice of an organization that is driven by cohesive leadership teams. As such, we empower educational organizations by building their capacity for change through access to funds, professional development, and a network of support. Our logic model provides the general plan the SIP project follows in order to achieve desired outcomes, while the SIP Blueprint is intended as a change-management guide for our grantees to follow as they move on the path of change towards innovation. 

• Policy: Attention to policy is essential as it helps remove structural and procedural barriers to enable.
• Practice: Practices that are responsive to student diversity, encourage student-directed learning, are evidence-based, and developed via ongoing collaboration between staff, students and community.
• Culture: This provides the foundational values and principles that promote a collaborating, accepting and stimulating community which guides decisions about policies and practices.
• Cohesive Leadership Team: Leadership is the catalyst for driving change and is responsible for setting a clear vision, communicating clarity and inspiring people to action. 

The SIP Logic Model and Blueprint are derived from best practices as defined in research and literature in the fields of education and change management. The goal is to provide our grantees with a solid framework upon which to base their work in creating equitable learning environments within their organizations.The Logic Model defines our approach to the project.

 

In a nutshell, we believe that when grantees are provided key resources and support, we empower them to achieve outcomes that reflect increased access and participation. Meanwhile, the Blueprint provides the systematic approach we advocate our grantees utilize as they move towards building learning environments that support all students. Based on seminal works in change management, we believe that by adopting this blueprint, our grantees will build capacities to deal with all change using best practice methods.