Leveraging Change in State Education Systems

Author(s): Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Barbara Sims, Caryn Ward

Publication Date: January 2014 

Focus Area(s): K-12 Education

The uniqueness of education units from states to classrooms presents a challenge for implementation-informed approaches to using effective innovations to produce marked improvements in student outcomes. Education is an interaction-based profession. Education systems produce important outcomes that are the product of teachers interacting with students in education settings. If the adults don’t teach, the children don’t learn at an acceptable rate.


Fixsen, D., Blase, K., Sims, B., & Ward, C. (2014). Leveraging Change in State Education Systems. Chapel Hill, NC: National Implementation Research Network, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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