{"id":2723,"date":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:32:17","slug":"theory-of-networked-improvement-community-nic-development-summit-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/theory-of-networked-improvement-community-nic-development-summit-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory of Networked Improvement Community (NIC) Development (Summit 2021)"},"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=\"400\" height=\"520\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-76d64e57\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2021-Virtual-Summit-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"2021-Virtual-Summit (1)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2021-Virtual-Summit-1-1.png 400w, https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2021-Virtual-Summit-1-1-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/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: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<p>Thriving networked improvement communities (NICs) exhibit distinct social structures that support and enable the technical improvement work that the NIC is organized to undertake. This session, recorded at the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education, discusses how those features can be recognized, assessed, and developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the distinguishing features of a networked improvement community (NIC), and how do NICs change over time? In this session, NIC scholars and coaches share the Carnegie Foundation\u2019s current theory of NIC development and a measurement framework that can be used to assess a network\u2019s health. Methods and findings will be explored through a case study of a networked improvement community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2B M12 Theory of Networked Improvement Community (NIC) Development\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/554506785?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Access the resources from this session:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2B_Theory-of-NIC-Development_Slides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Session 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