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  • Improvement Communities and Teacher-Leadership: Celebrating Edit Khachatryan’s Publication

    Blog Post

    April 24, 2024

    Please join us in congratulating Edit Khachatryan, senior associate of Networked Improvement Science at Carnegie Foundation. She has contributed to the publication Catalytic Improvement Communities: Cultivating Flourishing Schools, by Johnathan Eckert and Bradley Carpenter. Edit, alongside Emma Parkerson, co-founder of Systems Design Lab, co-authored the chapter “Learning to Lead: Improvement…

  • Eli Pristoop

    Staff Bio

    April 15, 2024

    Eli Pristoop is the director of attainment analytics in the Carnegie Foundation’s Evidence and Improvement Lab. In this role, Eli collaborates closely with school system partners in gathering and using evidence to deepen our understanding of competency-based models for secondary education, improve attainment, and reduce inequities through the effective implementation…

  • How Carnegie Classification Updates Could Affect State Higher Education Policy

    Blog Post

    March 15, 2024

    This is an excerpt by Mushtaq Gunja and Sara Gast of the Carnegie Classifications on Higher Education. For the full article, visit acenet.edu. Since 1973, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education has served as the predominant framework to classify American colleges and universities. It was originally created for researchers as…

  • Rethink Learning with XQ at Carnegie Summit 2024

    Blog Post

    March 12, 2024

    At this year’s Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education, XQ Institute, a 2024 sponsor, is leading the charge in transforming the educational landscape with two exciting, dynamic sessions. Reimagining High School: Watch, Lunch, and Learn is a standout session where attendees are treated to a special screening of The…

  • Akron Public Schools Hosts Carnegie Learning Leadership Network to Explore How Schools Can Better Prepare Students for the Future

    News Release

    March 5, 2024

    AKRON, OHIO – Akron Public Schools (APS) will host the Carnegie Learning Leadership Network (Carnegie LLN) on March 5–7, 2024 to explore how secondary schools can better prepare their students for the future. Carnegie LLN school systems, including APS, are working together to discover innovative ways to provide students with learning…

  • Diego Arambula

    Staff Bio

    February 27, 2024

    Diego Arambula is vice president for educational transformation at the Carnegie Foundation. As vice president, Diego leads ambitious, actionable strategies and builds partnerships with educators, policy makers, parents, employers and community based organizations to advance Carnegie’s mission.  Diego joins the Foundation with more than 15 years of education experience. Most…

  • Brooke Stafford-Brizard

    Staff Bio

    February 5, 2024

    Brooke Stafford-Brizard is vice president for Innovation and Impact at the Carnegie Foundation. As vice president, Brooke oversees Carnegie’s research and development activities and stewards cross-sector partnerships to accelerate the Foundation’s mission. As an educator, researcher, and philanthropic leader, Brooke has spent the past three decades focused on bringing a more holistic approach, grounded in…

  • Moving Forward Together

    Video

    January 29, 2024

    Looking to the future, project participants identified challenges and needs that must be met to strengthen and grow improvement practice in education. Themes in what improvers described as enabling and hindering their abilities to accomplish what they have with their use of improvement science, as well as what more would…

  • Celebrating 10 Years of Learning and Impact

    Video

    January 29, 2024

    When invited to share what they had accomplished through their improvement work, participants in surveys and focus groups described positive impacts on aims and outcomes, increased capability for continuous improvement, and changes in ways that they work with others. Common areas of accomplishment emerged across the responses, and are detailed…

  • How is Improvement Work Impacting Systems?

    Video

    January 29, 2024

    Improvers are seeing the impact of their work on student outcomes and experiences. Participants in focus groups and surveys also identified important ways that systems and ways of working have transformed through their improvement work. In this video, improvers reflect on the impact of improvement on outcomes and practice.  Return…

  • What Characterizes Improvement Work

    Video

    January 29, 2024

    Across responses and role groups and length of experience with improvement science, there were striking similarities in how improvement shapes actions and guides understandings of those who practice it. Specific themes, detailed in the report, were evident in how people described their work.  Return to project showcase.

  • Continually Working to Improve Results

    Video

    January 29, 2024

    Participants in this project communicated a sense of agency to effect real, positive change in the world around them.  Return to project showcase.

  • I Am an Improver Because

    Video

    January 29, 2024

    A shared “improver” identity became increasingly visible across the responses, even as we looked for variation in the stories and experiences related by project participants. Participants reported focusing on similar problems in their improvement work, with many describing an explicit focus on achieving more equitable outcomes and systems.  Return to…

  • Key Lessons Learned

    Video

    January 29, 2024

    Improvers in different roles share reflections about what they have learned using continuous improvement practice in education.  Return to project showcase.

  • Tiffany Tran

    Staff Bio

    January 19, 2024

    Tiffany Tran serves as contracts & budgets coordinator at the Carnegie Foundation. In this capacity, she assists the director of budgets, grants, and contracts with the Foundation’s annual budget and supports the preparation of contracts for all service providers. Prior to Carnegie, Tiffany was a global operations program manager at…

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