Wayne Sailor

Co-Director
SWIFT Education Center

 Dr. Wayne Sailor is Co-Director of the SWIFT Education Center at the University of Kansas, a resource center that leads the nation in equity-based MTSS and inclusive education research and services. His academic pursuits are focused on comprehensive school reform with the aim of transforming systems to integrate resources for the benefit of all students through equity-based, inclusive education.  He has done research within the framework of multi-tiered system of support, response to intervention (MTSS/RTI), and schoolwide applications of positive behavior intervention and support (PBIS).  He has extensively published in articles and books.  His present research and teaching is focused on emancipation of marginalized students through comprehensive school reform, emphasizing coherence across school, state agency, local education agency, regional systems, and schools in aligning systems of support to remove barriers to learning and equitably apply all resources, including new technologies, to all students in whole school contexts driven by MTSS and UDL strategies.