August 21, 2014
The participants of Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN) have sought to build the type of integrated system of measurement described in Practical Measurement that is so often lacking in our educational systems.
July 27, 2014
Through the initiation and development of several Networked Improvement Communities, Carnegie has gained five key insight into what it takes to spur improvement activity in networks.
April 14, 2014
Carnegie addresses the challenge of teacher retention in its latest publication, Developing an Effective Feedback System, by presenting a feedback framework to help beginning teacher feel supported and engaged.
March 25, 2014
Dan Heath, author of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, at Carnegie’s Summit on Improvement in Education, presents an approach for working towards change in education.
March 17, 2014
A 90-Day Cycle conducted at the Carnegie Foundation explored the question of if teacher evaluation and teacher development efforts can and should be combined as aspects of a single system.
January 30, 2014
At a convening of experts in continuous improvement methodology hosted by Carnegie’s Advancing Teaching-Improving Learning identified four essential organizational conditions for continuous improvement to take root and thrive.
December 3, 2013
Teacher evaluation has evolved markedly over the past four years. Unsurprisingly, consequent proliferation of evaluation systems has also yielded a great deal of variation in terms of system design, structure, and coherence.
September 27, 2013
The 90-Day Cycle has emerged as an invaluable method for supporting improvement. The Handbook serves as a guide to the purpose and methods of this disciplined and structured form of inquiry.
August 22, 2013
The Carnegie Foundation's latest brief, Strategies for Enhancing the Impact of Post-observation Feedback for Teachers, examines the struggle to use post-observation conversations effectively to support and develop teachers.
August 8, 2013
In a recent New York Times Sunday Review article, Clinton Leaf questioned the effectiveness of traditional clinical drug trials. We argue that improvement science is an alternative, effective research method.
June 26, 2013
While articles focus on access and privacy of data, what needs to be explored is how to utilize increasing access to individualized, longitudinal data to improve student outcomes and decisions making.
August 28, 2012
Paul Tough’s book “How Children Succeed” highlights the impact of noncognitive skills, like persistence, self-control, curiosity, grit and self-confidence, on student success.
January 17, 2012
You might find this article about lesson study from The Hechinger Report interesting. Carnegie is using lesson study, not exactly in the way outlined in this article, but to improve our mathematics pathways. Statway and Quantway faculty teams at each community college site will be organized into lesson study groups.…
October 11, 2011
For many years, educational researchers have worked with program designers and implementers in pursuit of what has been called fidelity of implementation. Simply put, this has involved the application of numerous tools and procedures designed to ensure that implementers replicate programs exactly as they were designed and intended. There is…
July 8, 2011
LESSONS LEARNED FROM MATHEMATICS AND DEMOCRACY “Indeed, as the twenty-first century unfolds, quantitative literacy will come to be seen not just as a minor variation in the way we functioned in the twentieth century but as a radically transformative vantage point from which to view education, policy, and work.” Mathematics…
March 16, 2011
In the past few years, organizations like ours have looked to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a model for employing improvement research to support sustainability and scaling efforts in various fields. There are many good reasons for this. IHI, created by Don Berwick and colleagues in the late…
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