{"id":1889,"date":"2022-12-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:21:55","slug":"living-improvement-leadership-resources-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/living-improvement-leadership-resources-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Improvement: Leadership Resources, Vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carnegie presents, Living Improvement: Resources from the 2021 Summit<\/a>, a series of releases with selected material from the 2021 Carnegie Summit on Improvement in Education and the Networks for School Improvement portfolio funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Resources focus on leadership<\/a>, equity<\/a>, data<\/a>, and coaching<\/a>. In this post, <\/em>we present resources focusing on the role of Leadership in continuous improvement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post is made possible by a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the work of improvement in education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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This is the last post in our series, Living Improvement: Resources for Educators<\/em><\/a>. Over the past few months, we have curated resources, mostly from the Carnegie Foundation\u2019s 2021 Virtual Summit on Improvement in Education, that discussed how large-scale transformational change needs leaders who are systems thinkers; how improvement principles, tools, and methods can be used to make real progress on problems of education inequities; how data is essential to understanding what is working, for whom, and in what context; and how coaching can help to build an organization\u2019s improvement capacity by empowering individuals to be agents of change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this final blog post, we return to leadership as the organizing theme to underscore the fact that systems change cannot happen without a different kind of leadership that weaves together these four areas\u2014one that routinely integrates data, coaching, and a focus on improving outcomes for students who are routinely overlooked and underserved by conventional methods and measures of reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Included in this last selection of resources is a discussion of the role of the \u201chub\u201d in a networked improvement community and how this problem-focused organization has the ability to scale and accelerate a network\u2019s learning and impact. We have also included resources, both from the 2021 Virtual Summit and from the Gates Foundation\u2019s Networks for School Improvement (NSI) initiative, on how to foster learning-centered, inclusive, and supportive spaces for leaders, especially leaders of color. You will also find a discussion of how policy can be used to draw timely attention and capital to the most pressing issues that schools and communities face. And lastly, we have included a selection of reflections by leaders in the Carnegie Foundation\u2019s iLEAD initiative taken from the Improvement Science in the Time of COVID-19<\/em><\/a> webinar series. Extraordinary times catalyzed leaders to respond with extraordinary courage, creativity, and ingenuity, using improvement science to marshall resources and hope where schools and students needed it most.<\/p>\n\n\n

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