Wisconsin State Improvement Grant
Helping Schools, Parents, and Communities
Meet SPP Indicators-Part B and Part C

Improving Outcomes for Children (birth to twenty-one) with Disabilities

While the State Performance Plan (SPP) has quickly become Wisconsin's vehicle for planning and providing statewide direction and leadership in the education of children with disabilities, the State Improvement Grant (SIG) continues to be one of the crucial funding mechanisms helping to carry out the plan. As a five-year system change initiate, SIG continues to bring together educational leaders, school staff, parents and community members around the vision to improve the outcomes for children with disabilities, ages birth to 21.

As a system change initiative, the SIG work plan was designed to strengthen and build statewide infrastructure and continues to be grounded in the work of our 19 grant projects. As the focus of federal grants shifted to help states meet challenging indicators of the SPP and requirements found in IDEA 2004, SIG was already poised to meet and support the challenge. Without having to revise Wisconsin's grant, SIG has become a primary resource for providing direct support and assistance to both general and special education service providers and parents around meeting the SPP indicators for both Part B and Part C. In addition to meeting the OSEP indicators, the work of our 19 grant projects continues to be focused on meeting SIG's original five-year outcomes of improving the quality of outcomes for young children birth to 6, assisting school age children to successfully meet challenging academic and behavior standards, and improving and enhancing postsecondary education and employment, all of which will be accomplished through system-level partnerships and collaborations.

Please access our newly revised website: www.wisconsinsig.org which provides professional development opportunities, dissemination of best practices, and collaborative partnerships to help districts and Wisconsin meet our targets.

Registration Form for SIG Celebration & Partners Meeting, August 14, 2007
SIG Grant Listing Information
SIG Grant Brochure

For questions about this information, contact Deborah J. Bilzing (608) 266-7987

Last updated on 2/22/2008 1:34:37 PM