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Improvement in Action<\/em> highlights six examples of rigorous, high-quality improvement work in districts, schools, and professional development networks across the country. These examples provide evidence of how different organizations put the six improvement principles introduced in Learning to Improve<\/em> into practice in order to realize significant results for the students they serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Improvement in Action: Advancing Quality in America\u2019s Schools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Improvement in Action<\/em>, Anthony S. Bryk\u2019s sequel to Learning to Improve<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, illustrates how educators have effectively applied the six core principles<\/strong><\/a> of continuous improvement in practice. 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

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

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