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Building and Supporting Improvers
This is the second post in a series designed to explore and bring to life the framework for initiating networked improvement communities (NICs). It offers an example of how one network organized to build the expertise and capacity of network leaders and members to learn through disciplined inquiry.
Building and Supporting Improvers
January 21, 2016 | By Jennifer Russell, Maggie Hannan
In this second blog post in our series on networked improvement community (NIC) initiation, we focus on how NICs can build educators’ capacity to use improvement science to learn from practice. We spotlight one of the five essential domains in our framework for the initiation of a viable NIC: learning and using improvement research methods.
Improvement science offers methods to guide disciplined inquiries that generate knowledge…. Read the full post here.
Related Resources
NIC Initiation Blog Series:
- How to Launch a Productive Network
- Organizing a Network for Collective Action
- Building a Culture of Improvement in the Context of External Accountability
- Excitement and Challenge on the Cutting Edge of Reform: An Observer’s Perspective on NIC Initiation
- Orienting In and Orienting Out: The Political Context of Leading and Managing NICs
Five Essential Building Blocks for a Successful Networked Improvement Community
