Building and Supporting Improvers
This second post in our series about networked improvement community initiation focused on how to build capacity of network members to use improvement science to learn from practice.
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January 21, 2016 January 13, 2016 How to Launch a Productive Network
In the first post of our network initiation series, we outline the networked improvement community initiation framework, exploring each of the 5 domains.
January 10, 2016 “Proof,” Policy, and Practice: Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education
In “Proof,” Policy, and Practice: Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education, Paul E. Lingenfelter discusses differing ideas around what is considered “proof” of improvement in education and how to make it more actionable.
December 21, 2015 Math Can Be For All
All students can learn and succeed in math. Professor Jo Boaler presents how schools and teachers promote growth mindsets in math through certain tasks and teaching methods.
November 23, 2015 Changing Minds about Math
In a recent article, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Kathryn Baron outlined the development, success, and future of the Community College Pathways. Drawing on student and faculty experiences, the article highlights supporting students' mindsets.
November 6, 2015 The Learning Analytics Landscape: Tension Between Student Privacy and the Process of Data Mining
Data mining is a powerful tool being used by educational institutions to support student success, but often students do not know what data are being collected and how their privacy is being protected. This post explored the tension between privacy and data mining.
November 3, 2015 How Improvement Science Gets Us to the Know-How
Drawing on the experience of the Building a Teacher Effectiveness Network, a new report examines how when engaging an entire process that is disciplined by improvement science great gains can be achieved and know-how created.
November 3, 2015 A Lesson in System-Wide Change
Under Chancellor Nancy Zimpher the State University of New York is aiming to educate more people and educate them better. To reach this goal they are using improvement science to generate system-wide change.
September 25, 2015 Using New Research to Improve Student Motivation
Teachers know that motivation matters. It is central to student learning; it helps determine how engaged students are in their work, how hard they work, and how well they persevere in the face of challenges. Though we hear mostly about the “achievement gap” between demographic groups, researchers have also identified…
September 22, 2015 Improving Observer Training: The Trends and Challenges
The third brief in a series examining trends in teacher evaluation, this report details findings both from recent research on observer training and from conversations with experts from district officials in five districts.
September 3, 2015 Lessons from Paper Airplanes
Working to reliably land paper airplanes, educators, researchers, and other workshop participants experienced how improvement science offers a different way to solve problems and collect data.
August 18, 2015 Why a NIC?
Organizing in networks is not a new idea. But the joining together of improvement science and networks affords great promise for accelerating educators’ efforts to improve our nation’s schools. Learn more about networked improvement communities.
August 10, 2015 Responses to the Conversation about Learning to Improve
In response to Carnegie President Anthony S. Bryk's post on expanding the conversation about learning to improve, we received numerous responses. President Bryk replies to two of them in this post.
August 4, 2015 It’s Complex
In education, we often talk of confronting complicated problems, when they are truly complex problems. The difference between complicated and complex truly matters in how we works towards our end goals. It is time we approach complex problems as complex.
July 28, 2015 How to Boost Student Motivation
To reach increasingly high academic demands, we must better support student engagement. In “Motivation Matters," writers Susan Headden and Sarah McKay define key terms, discuss research findings, and explain promising approaches to boosting student motivation.
July 21, 2015 Improvement Discipline in Practice
Trying to improve practice is part of most educators practices, but what if we moved from trying to get better to getting better at getting better. Improvement science offers a method and set of tools to systematically build the know-how to reach our goals
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