Learning Our Way into Better Education Systems
During the opening keynote at Carnegie's Summit on Improvement in Education, Carnegie President Anthony S. Bryk advocated for a new way of learning to improve.
Topic: Networked Improvement Communities
March 25, 2015 March 2, 2015 Introducing Learning to Improve
On March 3, Learning to Improve, a new book by Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, and Paul G. LeMahieu, will be released. The book outlines how Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) offer a new model for improving our schools.
February 27, 2015 Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, Learning to Improve presents a process of disciplined inquiry that can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education.
January 22, 2015 Huffington Post Publishes Piece on Evidence to Support Improvement
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.
November 21, 2014 Using Evidence to Advance Teaching: The Promise of Improvement Science in Networks
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.
September 22, 2014 Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network
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…
September 9, 2014 How Carnegie Is Using Technology to Enable Collaboration in Networks
Carnegie has created a network online workspace that serves as the primary access point for all network members. We present four key design principles to improve traditional ways of collaborating and sharing learning online.
July 29, 2014 Designing a Collective Learning System
Carnegie’s work rests on the assumption that we need to increase the rate of learning to reach higher educational aspirations. A key component of that vision is building on others' learning.
July 27, 2014 How to Spur Improvement Activity in Networks
Through the initiation and development of several Networked Improvement Communities, Carnegie has gained five key insight into what it takes to spur improvement activity in networks.
July 1, 2014 _removed_Our Work
The Carnegie Foundation conducts its work by leveraging its expertise, assets, partnerships, convening power, and social and reputational capital to address long-standing educational inequities that impede economic mobility and exacerbate racial inequality.
May 2, 2014 Is a Networked Improvement Community Design-Based Implementation Research?
Design-based implementation research (DBIR) bears a family resemblance to a portion of the work done by Networked Improvement Communities (NICs). But NICs are not a research approach, and their raison d'être is not theory building.
December 11, 2013 Year Two Success in Math Pathways Illustrates the Power of Networks
In its second year, Carnegie’s Community College Pathways program sustained its high level of student success while also experiencing a growth in the number of students enrolled and the number of campuses teaching Pathways.
December 1, 2013 Practical Measurement
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.
September 22, 2013 Improving on the American Dream: Mathematics Pathways to Student Success
This Change Magazine article captures the unique experience of Pathways students and faculty and highlights the power of improvement science to generate transformational learning opportunities and increase student success.
August 8, 2013 A Third Way of Bringing Research into Practice
In a recent New York Times Sunday Review article, Clinton Leaf questioned the effectiveness of traditional clinical drug trials. We argue that improvement science is an alternative, effective research method.
July 31, 2013 Learning Our Way Into a Better System
At Carnegie’s Pathways National Forum faculty members, administrators, institutional research staff, and education researchers gathered to continue their efforts to reclaim the mathematical lives of students who place into developmental mathematics.
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