Learning Leadership Network
The Learning Leadership Network is composed of 10 school districts committed to secondary school transformation to ensure that school systems are creating engaging and effective learning experiences for their students.
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Download high-resolution photoEdit Khachatryan serves as senior associate on the Networked Improvement Science team at the Carnegie Foundation. In this role, Edit supports system transformation work through the use of improvement science.
Before joining the Foundation, Edit served as a teacher and leader developer, a teacher educator, and a teaching ambassador fellow at the U.S. Department of Education where she supported States transforming their teacher observation and evaluation systems. She started her career as a high school history, government, and economics teacher in Los Angeles.
Edit is an improvement facilitator, researcher, and educator with a mission to create lasting educational improvements by facilitating, strengthening, and studying collaborative learning and problem solving among educators. Her scholarly work has focused on teacher feedback from classroom observations, teacher and leader professional development, and improvement coaching. Edit’s work has been published in a variety of academic and practitioner forums as she believes investment in access and integration of scholarly and educator expertise is essential to truly address educational disparities. Her most recent publications include an article on how to organize the social dimensions of school improvement in Kappan magazine, a book chapter on improvement coaching in Continuous Improvement: A Leadership Process for School Improvement, and another book chapter on teacher leadership development through networked improvement community participation in Catalytic Improvement Communities: Cultivating Flourishing Schools, all in collaboration with other improvement leaders.
Edit holds a bachelor’s in sociology, two master’s degrees and teaching and administrative credentials from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in curriculum and teacher education from Stanford University.
The Learning Leadership Network is composed of 10 school districts committed to secondary school transformation to ensure that school systems are creating engaging and effective learning experiences for their students.
How do networked improvement communities (NICs) create a social structure to catalyze the type of community that can solve complex problems? Based upon prior theorizing, research literature, and observations of developing NICs, here we describe a framework for use as an analytic tool for understanding NIC emergence and maturation.
Akron Public Schools (APS) hosted the Carnegie Learning Leadership Network (Carnegie LLN) from March 5–7, 2024, to showcase their innovative College and Career Academies of Akron model. The focus of the network, which is part of the Foundation’s larger Future of Learning portfolio, is to support, showcase, and study systems…
“I feel good knowing there is a community of folks from around the country who are facing similar problems in their schools. The opportunity to hear their stories and have open dialogue and share resources has been invaluable.” —Northern Humboldt Union High School District Leader In late June, members of…
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