Five Essential Building Blocks for a Successful Networked Improvement Community

This blog post summarizes five areas of activity for an initiation team launching an improvement effort. Synthesizing ideas presented in “A Framework for the Initiation of Networked Improvement Communities” (Russell et al, 2017), it describes each of the five areas and offers a related example.

[Five Essential Building Blocks for a Successful Networked Improvement Community]

May 4, 2017 | By Sarah McKay

The Networked Improvement Community (NIC) model is a promising way to address complex educational problems. NICs bring diverse expertise to bear on specific problems of practice, and what’s learned in one part of the network can be quickly spread to and tested in other contexts. But building a strong and enduring improvement community requires….  Read the full post [here].

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