Resources

Carnegie publications, videos, and tools are designed as resources to support others who are eager to engage in improvement work to achieve effectiveness with reliability at scale.

Publications

March 2022

A Framework for Scaling for Equity

By Lora Cohen-Vogel, Jeanne Century, and David Sherer

The scaling-for-equity framework supports a journey in which members of a team work to improve educational practice by traveling over time from their origin to a destination. It consists of three components—scaling intentions, scaling strategies, and influential factors.

May 2021

The Social Structure of Networked Improvement Communities: Cultivating the Emergence of a Scientific-Professional Learning Community

By Jennifer Russell, Anthony S. Bryk, Donald J. Peurach, David Sherer, Paul LeMahieu, Edit Khachatryan, Jennifer Z. Sherer, Maggie Hannan

How do networked improvement communities (NICs) create a social structure to catalyze the type of community that can solve complex problems? Based upon prior theorizing, research literature, and observations of developing NICs, here we describe a framework for use as an analytic tool for understanding NIC emergence and maturation.

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Videos

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Tools

Networked Improvement Learning and Support (NILS™)

NILS is an online platform designed to facilitate the initiation and development of NICs working on shared problems of practice in a disciplined manner.

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Learning to Improve Glossary

This glossary organizes a selection of key terms used in the book, Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better, that have formal meaning.

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