{"id":2457,"date":"2020-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2025-12-17T02:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:17:32","slug":"improvement-in-action-advancing-quality-in-americas-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/improvement-in-action-advancing-quality-in-americas-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvement in Action: Advancing Quality in America\u2019s Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9f092ff3\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f749780f\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-76d64e57\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"350\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-76d64e57\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/improvement-in-action_3000-e1710350105311-313x350-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"improvement-in-action_3000-e1710350105311-313x350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/improvement-in-action_3000-e1710350105311-313x350-1.png 313w, https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/improvement-in-action_3000-e1710350105311-313x350-1-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:16px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:16px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:16px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3509cf4d\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7f1386da gb-headline-text dcs_blueChevron dcs_removeTransform\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hepg.org\/hep-home\/books\/improvement-in-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purchase<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:64px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d723643c gb-headline-text\">July 2020 | Written by\u00a0Anthony S. Bryk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Improvement in Action<\/em>, Anthony S. Bryk\u2019s sequel to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/resources\/publications\/learning-to-improve\/\"><em>Learning to Improve<\/em><\/a>, illustrates how educators have effectively applied the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/our-ideas\/six-core-principles-improvement\/\">six core principles<\/a>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizations featured in the book have addressed, with remarkable results, long-standing inequitable educational outcomes in high school graduation rates, college readiness, and absenteeism. The cases emphasize the measures the educators took and the thinking that motivated their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryk describes how improvers, working in different contexts and confronting different problems, used select principles, tools, and methods to make improvement come to life. Brief analytic reflections are embedded throughout the narratives, and each chapter concludes with an analysis of a set of larger lessons illuminated by the organization\u2019s story. Taken as a set, these examples offer readers valuable insights about the actual dynamics of doing improvement work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Improvement in Action<\/em>, paired with<em>&nbsp;Learning to Improve<\/em>, provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the practice, method, and theory of large-scale continuous improvement in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cA must-read for educators who aim to put the principles for continuous improvement into action, transforming their organizations in the process. The six diverse case studies of successful improvement efforts provide vivid images of what it means to live the improvement principles. Taken together, the cases offer concrete, actionable insights into the core aspects of improvement work that can inform readers\u2019 pursuit of ambitious improvement goals.\u201d<\/em><br><strong>\u2014 Paul Cobb, research professor, Vanderbilt University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIn&nbsp;<\/em>Learning to Improve<em>, Anthony Bryk boldly challenged educators to adopt and adapt modern, scientifically grounded principles of improvement. Now, in&nbsp;<\/em>Improvement in Action<em>, he offers six textured case studies that bring the theory to life in ways invaluable for anyone who wishes to accelerate toward profoundly better educational systems. In this, Bryk extends his legacy as one of the most important education change agents of his generation.\u201d<\/em><br><strong>\u2014 Donald M. Berwick, president emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:80px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:80px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" style=\"height:80px\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e3118763 alignfull\">\n\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-fsb-flexible-spacer fsb-flexible-spacer\"><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--lg\" style=\"height:56px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--md\" style=\"height:56px\"><\/div><div class=\"fsb-flexible-spacer__device fsb-flexible-spacer__device--sm\" 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