This summarizes the initial results of meeting of fifteen federal, state, and local education policy experts who used improvement science methods to better understand and improve Title II.
Inside the Command Center, a recent piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review by The Billions Institute co-founders Joe McCannon and Becky Kanis Margiotta 10 behaviors of organizations that move initiatives from theory to action.
Social Policy Senior Fellow Lisbeth Schorr and Carnegie Foundation President Tony Bryk's op-ed advocates for an expanded conception of rigorous evidence used to inform social spending.
In September 2014, Carnegie convened a meeting in Washington, DC. to use the work of Austin Independent School District as a case study through which to examine the processes of quality improvement and the implications of networked improvement communities for policy.
There seems to be an aversion to the idea of standardization in education. But standardization can allow teachers to have the time and freedom to meet individual needs when those needs vary from the majority.
Panelists at Carnegie’s convening, Using Evidence to Advance Teaching: The Promise of Improvement Science in Networks, discuss how to create a political environment to support and not impede the use of improvement science.
The Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN) was designed to enable a diverse group of leaders to come together to address the growing problem of beginning teacher development and retention. Across the United States, the demographics of teaching are changing. In 2011-2012, nearly a quarter of U.S. teachers had five or fewer…
Austin Principal John Rocha takes us through how a K-12-focused Carnegie program immersed district leaders and school principals in rapid, small tests of change to improve the quality of feedback and support that new teachers receive.
The participants of Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN) have sought to build the type of integrated system of measurement described in Practical Measurement that is so often lacking in our educational systems.
When Anthony Bryk became president of Carnegie, he set the Foundation to work on a new agenda, to lead the transformation of educational research. Here, Tony and his colleagues explain the Foundation’s work and vision for the future.
Improvement leaders share their personal experiences leading improvement at a Fall 2013 Carnegie Convening. What results are they most proud of? What were their biggest challenges? How did they overcome them? What would they do differently?
On May 28, 2014, the Carnegie Foundation hosted a webinar that featured a panel of district leaders and teachers from the School District of Menomonee Falls who discussed how they balanced a commitment to quality improvement in the classroom with state-level initiatives such as teacher evaluation and student learning objectives.…
At a convening of experts in continuous improvement methodology hosted by Carnegie’s Advancing Teaching-Improving Learning identified four essential organizational conditions for continuous improvement to take root and thrive.
Practical Measurement presents why improvement science requires a different type of measurement, distinct from accountability or theory development to allow for learning in and through practice.
The 90-Day Cycle Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the purpose and methods of this disciplined and structured form of inquiry. This handbook delineates the purpose and process for this method.
The 90-Day Cycle has emerged as an invaluable method for supporting improvement. The Handbook serves as a guide to the purpose and methods of this disciplined and structured form of inquiry.
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