Barbara Jean Sims

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Barbara Jean Sims
Co-Director, State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center; Associate Director, National Implementation Research Network,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Barbara Jean Sims is co-director of the State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center and associate director of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With over 30 years of experience in education as a teacher, administrator, and consultant across private, public, and state education agency settings, her current focus is on applying implementation research to the education field. She previously served as an administrator and teacher in the Oakland Unified School District and was a research assistant at Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). Sims earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Contributing topics
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Publications by Barbara Jean Sims
Who makes up the CBEDS?
Who Makes Up the CBEDS?
The California State Department of Education is creating a multipurpose data system on California education, including the California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS) which collects information on staff and students. The data is used for…