Caryn Ward, PhD, is a research collaborator at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she formerly served as director of the National Implementation Research Network and the director of the State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center and leadership team member for Region 7 Comprehensive Center. Previously, she provided direct and indirect services as a school psychologist, a Response to Intervention (RTI) district coordinator, and the project director for the North Carolina RTI Consortium.