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Excitement and Challenge on the Cutting Edge of Reform: An Observer’s Perspective on NIC Initiation

This fifth post in a series on networked improvement community (NIC) initiation draws on an analogy to pop-up business. Through comparing and contrasting the features of the two kinds of organizations, the author seeks to deepen understanding of the particular nature of NICs and the process of NIC initation.

Excitement and Challenge on the Cutting Edge of Reform: An Observer’s Perspective on NIC Initiation

February 25, 2016 | By Donald J. Peurach

This blog is part of a series that identifies and discusses practical issues that arise in initiating networked improvement communities (NICs). While other contributors have written from the perspective of those doing such work, my contribution is something of a twist, in that I write from the perspective of an external observer whose research focuses on large-scale, network-based educational improvement as a matter of policy and practice.

As an external observer, I find… Read the full blog post here

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