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How to Launch a Productive Network
This is the first post in a series of designed to explore and bring to life the framework for initiating networked improvement communities (NICs). This post outlines the framework itself, summarizing five domains of NIC activity organized around the core problem of practice the NIC seeks to address.
How to Launch a Productive Network
January 13, 2016 | By Jennifer Russell
The networked improvement community (NIC) concept has captured the attention of a diverse range of stakeholders looking for new ways to address our nation’s most pressing problems of educational practice. Aiming to address practical problems such as the performance and retention of beginning teachers, groups of educators, researchers, and leaders have sought to form intentional networks to structure collective improvement work. These networked improvement communities offer a vision for a particular form of network that unites.… Read full blog post here.
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Other posts in the NIC Initiation Blog Series:
- Building and Supporting Improvers
- 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
