What We’re Watching: Peter M. Senge, Navigating Webs of Interdependence
We are gearing up for our 2017 Summit on Improvement in Education by watching keynote speaker Peter M. Senge’s video, Navigating Webs of Interdependence. One…
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March 20, 2017 March 16, 2017 Networked Improvement Community Reduces School Absenteeism, Discipline Issues While Improving Instruction
One of the six core principles of improvement says accelerate improvements through networked communities. While it is true that we can accomplish more together than…
March 15, 2017 California’s Oakland Unified School District Adding Weekly KPI Reports to Their Annual School Performance Framework
One of the six core principles of improvement says we cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure. In the era of accountability, schools and…
March 13, 2017 “A Framework for the Initiation of Networked Improvement Communities” Published in Teachers College Record
One of the six core principles of improvement says accelerate improvements through networked communities. Carnegie Fellow Jennifer Russell and colleagues have published “A Framework for…
March 10, 2017 Why Empathy Matters in Quality Improvement
“If you want to teach someone well, you have to know who you’re teaching.” One of the six core principles of improvement says make the…
March 9, 2017 Learning and Using Improvement Research Methods
We are delighted that “Building and Supporting Improvers,” by Jennifer Russell and Maggie Hannan, is one of the one of the top ten Carnegie Commons…
March 7, 2017 What We’re Reading: Craig Weber’s Conversational Capacity
In our work, we have noticed that candid and curious conversation is a basic building block for creating high-functioning improvement teams. For example, one of…
March 7, 2017 Anthony S. Bryk’s “Is Fidelity of Implementation the Right Concept?”
In one of the top ten Carnegie Commons Blog posts of 2016, Anthony S. Bryk asks, “Is Fidelity of Implementation the Right Concept?” When looking at…
March 6, 2017 To Succeed, Systems Improvers Must Understand the Nuanced Experiences of Those in the System
“Empathy and Social Justice: The Power of Proximity in Improvement Science,” one of the top ten Carnegie Commons Blog posts of 2016, summarizes a Summit…
March 3, 2017 What We’re Watching: Jeff Duncan-Andrade’s TEDx Talk on Growing Roses in Concrete
We are gearing up for our 2017 Summit on Improvement in Education by watching keynote speaker Jeff Duncan-Andrade’s inspiring and motivating TEDx talk, Growing Roses…
March 2, 2017 Watch This NSF INCLUDES Archived Webinar: Improvement Analytics—Learning from Data to Drive Improvement
Carnegie and SRI Education presented a webinar for networked improvement communities on improvement analytics, or learning from data to drive improvement, to select National Science…
March 1, 2017 What We’re Reading: Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline
Peter Senge’s classic, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, continues to offer us inspiration and guidance in our quality improvement…
February 28, 2017 Quality Improvement Team Addresses Reliability and Continuous Improvement
“How do we reliably deliver evidence-based healthcare in partnership with patients, families, communities?” A quality improvement team from the Geisel School of Medicine and the…
February 27, 2017 Why Education Needs More Integrity (and Less Fidelity) of Implementation
One of the top ten Carnegie Commons Blog posts of 2016, “What We Need in Education is More Integrity (and Less Fidelity) of Implementation,” from…
February 24, 2017 What We’re Reading: Steven Spear’s The High Velocity Edge
Building high reliability organizations is our passion. One of the six core principles of improvement states, “Variation in performance is the core problem to address.”…
February 23, 2017 Systems Thinking: Why We Need a State & Regional Approach to Higher Education in Silicon Valley
A research study conducted by Michael W. Kirst, W. Richard Scott, and Carnegie’s Manuelito Biag indicates that California’s higher education policy environment has not kept up…
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