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On July 17, we welcomed the second cohort of African Leadership University (ALU) students to the Carnegie Foundation for the 2023 Global Leadership Program. During their first week, student participants gained key insights and strategies to examine the future of education, as they identified gaps and opportunities for innovation in…
Valeria Brown, Carnegie’s Future of Learning Director, has authored a thoughtful piece titled “Are We Really Centering Students in Professional Learning?”. In this article, Val explores the educational challenges faced by students during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a loss of connection with their schools. In reflecting on her own…
We are thrilled to introduce the 2023 Global Leadership Program Cohort—a group of twenty outstanding African Leadership University students who embody the passion and drive to make a significant impact on the global community! Now in its second year, the Global Leadership Program will run from July 16th to August…
It’s not every day you get to announce a revolution in your sector. But the Carnegie Foundation is doing exactly that. With our partner, ETS, we are setting out to overturn 117 years of educational tradition. If you went to college, you are probably familiar with the idea of the…
First in a three-part series offering a behind-the-scenes perspective of the Carnegie Summit on Improvement in Education and sharing stories of the improvement community.
This series of blog posts presents resources for educators from the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education (and elsewhere). This offering includes the second volume of resources focused on Leadership.
Carnegie presents, Living Improvement: Resources from the 2021 Summit, a series of releases with selected material from the 2021 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education. Resources focus on leadership, equity, data, and coaching. In this post, we present resources focusing on the role of coaching in continuous improvement. This…
In early October, Phoenix Union High School District (PXU) hosted participants of the Carnegie Learning Leadership Network (Carnegie LLN) to reimagine high schools and move beyond time-based models of learning like the Carnegie Unit.
This series of blog posts presents resources for educators from the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education (and elsewhere). This is the third blog post, and it focuses on Data and Measurement.
This series of blog posts presents resources for educators from the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education (and elsewhere). In this post, we present resources focusing on the role of equity in continuous improvement.
This series of blog posts presents resources for educators from the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education (and elsewhere). Resources will focus on leadership, equity, data, and coaching.
This series of blog posts presents resources for educators from the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education (and elsewhere). This is the first blog post focusing on leadership.
This series of three papers presents a set of frameworks designed to assist educational leaders in making concrete improvements that advance deeper learning instruction at scale. They were produced by three study teams convened by the Carnegie Foundation and made up of members of research-practice partnerships and external experts with…
Carnegie Board Chair Diane Tavenner and President Tim Knowles discuss how technology and personal relationships can be combined to create a resilient learning community and why the Carnegie Unit must be reconsidered to stay effective and relevant.
Writer and educator David Kirp talks to Carnegie President Tim Knowles about scalable and sustainable programs in New York, Georgia, and Columbia that are getting teaching and learning right.
Tim Knowles talks with Carnegie board chair Lillian Lowery about the importance of teachers of color, the changing role of assessment, and the future of the classroom.