Publications
Improving America’s Schools Together
Improving America’s Schools Together: How District-University Partnerships and Continuous Improvement Can Transform Education is the first definitive text on continuous improvement in school district-university partnerships, covering improvement methods, theory, research, and real cases across the United States with practical improvement tools that can be adapted to any setting.
Improvement in Action: Advancing Quality in America’s Schools
July 2020
Improvement in Action, Anthony S. Bryk’s sequel to Learning to Improve, illustrates how educators have effectively applied the six core principles of continuous improvement in practice. The book highlights relevant examples of rigorous, high-quality improvement work in districts, schools, and professional development networks across the country.
How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools
A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved.
Partnering to Scale Instructional Improvement: A Framework for Organizing Research-Practice Partnerships
June 2022
This paper offers a four-part framework and a reflective tool for use by RPPs working to improve instruction at scale. The interactions among the components provide for learning that, in turn, can influence whether a partnership is up to achieving equitable instructional reform at scale.
A Framework for Scaling for Equity
March 2022
The scaling-for-equity framework supports a journey in which members of a team work to improve educational practice by traveling over time from their origin to a destination. It consists of three components—scaling intentions, scaling strategies, and influential factors.
Designing for Deeper Learning: Challenges in Schools and School Districts Serving Communities Disadvantaged by the Educational System
May 2022
This paper looks at the question: What must designers of interventions at the classroom, school, and district levels in communities disadvantaged by the U.S. educational system take into account to create a developmental path towards deeper learning in their organizations?
The Social Structure of Networked Improvement Communities: Cultivating the Emergence of a Scientific-Professional Learning Community
May 2021
How do networked improvement communities (NICs) create a social structure to catalyze the type of community that can solve complex problems? Based upon prior theorizing, research literature, and observations of developing NICs, here we describe a framework for use as an analytic tool for understanding NIC emergence and maturation.
The Virtual Pivot: How The 2020 Carnegie Summit Transformed from an In-Person Event to a Virtual Experience
June 2020
The Summit on Improvement in Education brings together education professionals to learn how improvement science can address their problems of practice. This document chronicles how Carnegie pivoted from its annual in-person event to a virtual one—while working remotely without the benefit of face-to-face meetings and huddles.