{"id":1529,"date":"2020-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:24:47","slug":"embarking-on-a-new-era-a-letter-from-carnegie-foundation-board-of-trustees-chair-lillian-lowery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/embarking-on-a-new-era-a-letter-from-carnegie-foundation-board-of-trustees-chair-lillian-lowery\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarking on a New Era: A Letter from Carnegie Foundation Board of Trustees Chair Lillian Lowery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly 115 years ago, Congress chartered the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to \u201cdo and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education.\u201d Early in its history, the Foundation helped shape the U.S. system of higher education\u2014from admissions to financial aid and pensions. More recently, the mission of the Foundation has expanded to include strengthening preparation for the next generation of teachers and educational leaders and working directly on advancing more equitable educational outcomes in K-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each era of the Foundation has been shaped by a distinguished leader who marshalled scholars and distinguished practitioners to address the challenges facing the education field. Since 2008, Anthony Bryk has transformed the Foundation\u2019s work to bridge the disconnect between research and practice through improvement science and networked improvement communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 18 months ago, Tony began a conversation with the Board of Trustees about the future of the Foundation. Recognizing that to truly transform how schools improve is a generation\u2019s effort, it was in his view a good time to begin thinking about a leadership transition that would allow the Foundation to continue to press this mission forward over the long term. Earlier this year, the Trustees accepted Tony\u2019s decision to step down as president effective the end of this calendar year, and the Board has initiated a national search for his successor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to overstate Tony\u2019s contributions to the Foundation and to the field of improvement science in education. From his pioneering research on school reform in Chicago, to his vision<\/a> for a systematic approach for \u201clearning fast in order to achieve quality outcomes reliably at scale,\u201d Tony has inspired us to get better at getting better. Under his leadership, the Foundation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n