{"id":2823,"date":"2025-12-19T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carnegie25live.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=2823"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:12:29","slug":"improvement-science-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/improvement-science-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Improvement Science Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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90-Day Cycle Handbook<\/div>
90-Day Cycles are a structured method to develop and test new processes, tools, practices or knowledge frameworks in support of ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Acceptable Failure<\/div>
While failure is often identified as a necessary part of learning, not all failure productively advances learning or growth. The ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Advancing Quality in Continuous Improvement<\/div>
Discussing the topic of \u201cAdvancing Quality in Continuous Improvement\u201d Carnegie Foundation President (Emeritus) Anthony S. Bryk reflects on seven diverse ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Aim Statements<\/div>
This one-page reference summarizes the purpose of an aim statement or improvement goal. It highlights key characteristics of an effective ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Applying the Driver Diagram to your Local Context (Facilitating Improvement Teams Video Series #4)<\/div>
This video highlights a protocol that improvement team facilitators and coaches can utilize to help others connect their local work ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Basics of PDSA Cycles<\/div>
This session, presented at the 2023 Summit on Improvement in Education, introduces the role of disciplined inquiry in improvement efforts ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Bringing a Change Idea to Scale<\/div>
In this video, the presenter walks through an example of engaging in successive PDSA cycles to move from testing a ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Building a Culture of Improvement in the Context of External Accountability<\/div>
This fourth post in a series on networked improvement community (NIC) initiation spotlights issues related to building a culture that ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network: Coordinating Support and Feedback for Beginning Teachers in AISD Schools<\/div>
This report from the Department of Research and Evaluation in the Austin Independent School District summarizes activities and key lessons ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Building a Theory: Driver Diagram Card Sort Activity<\/div>
A theory of improvement, often represented by a driver diagram, articulates a community\u2019s shared goal and how they are working ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Building a Theory: Driver Diagram Concepts Activity<\/div>
A theory of practice improvement is a powerful tool for communicating a group\u2019s improvement goal and the key levers they ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Building and Supporting Improvers<\/div>
This is the second post in a series designed to explore and bring to life the framework for initiating networked ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Categories of Improvement Coaching Dilemmas<\/div>
Improvement coaches encounter common kinds of challenges as they work with teams towards different improvement aims. Four categories of challenges, ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Change Packages: A Starting Point for Ideas that Work<\/div>
This session, presented at the 2020 Summit on Improvement in Education, explains how change packages are developed and how they ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Clear, Measurable Goals and Empathy Help Scale Improvement Science at High Tech High<\/div>
This blog post, based on the 2016 Kappan article \u201cGetting Better Together,\u201d written by Kristen MacConnell and Stacey Caillier, describes what teachers ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Coaching PDSA Cycles<\/div>
These resources focus on how coaches can help teams build efficient and effective inquiry routines using PDSA cycles. Materials include ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Consolidating Your Understanding of a Problem Using a Fishbone Diagram<\/div>
This session, presented at the 2022 Summit on Improvement in Education, introduces key causal system analysis tools and discusses how ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Continuous Improvement in Education<\/div>
This whitepaper offers examples of continuous quality improvement methods in use in three broad categories: at the level of classroom ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Developing a Theory of Action to Deliver Your Theory of Improvement (Summit 2020)<\/div>
This session, recorded at the 2020 Summit on Improvement in Education, explores considerations for organizing an improvement effort and building ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Developing Improvement Dispositions<\/div>
This session, recorded for on-demand viewing as part of the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education, presents six dispositions of ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Developing NIC Hub Self-Assessment<\/div>
Network hub teams can use this self-assessment tool to identify strengths and areas for growth as they support the development ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Developmental Progressions Framework<\/div>
The Developmental Progressions Framework describes aspects of a partnership between a school district and university that can be used to ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Educational Improvement Networks: Exploring the Development of Scientific-Professional Learning Communities<\/div>
This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education unpacks essential issues and challenges related to launching and operating improvement ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Empathy Interviews: How to Do Them and Why They Are Important (Summit 2021)<\/div>
This session, presented by Community Design Partners at the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education, introduces empathy interviews as a ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Engaging with the Evidence for Improvement Framework (Summit 2021)<\/div>
This session, recorded at the Carnegie Summit in 2021, introduces the Evidence for Improvement Framework. The Framework illustrates how improvement ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Establishing & Reflecting on Community Agreements Protocol<\/div>
This protocol can be used by improvement leaders to facilitate a team or larger network\/organization to create community agreements that ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Evaluating Aim Statements Activity<\/div>
This activity introduces the elements of a well-specified, actionable aim statement and provides an opportunity for groups to reflect on ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Evidence for Improvement\u2120: An Integrated Analytic Approach for Supporting Networks in Education<\/div>
This paper offers an integrated perspective on how evidence can be marshaled by network leaders and their analytic partners to ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Excitement and Challenge on the Cutting Edge of Reform: An Observer\u2019s Perspective on NIC Initiation<\/div>
This fifth post in a series on networked improvement community (NIC) initiation draws on an analogy to pop-up business. Through ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Facilitating Improvement Teams\u2120<\/div>
Facilitating Improvement Teams\u2120 is an intermediate-level course that engages coordinators, facilitators, and those who support improvement teams in hands-on, practical ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Fidelity of Implementation: Is It the Right Concept?<\/div>
Fidelity of implementation is often contrasted with adaptive integration when considering how changes are enacted to account for variation in ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Financial Aid Application Completion Measure (Practical Measure Example)<\/div>
One of the key features of a practical measure is that it provides actionable information that drives changes in practice. ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Five Essential Building Blocks for a Successful Networked Improvement Community<\/div>
This blog post summarizes five areas of activity for an initiation team launching an improvement effort. Synthesizing ideas presented in ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Fostering a Shared Identity through the Power of Narrative (Summit 2020)<\/div>
This session, presented at the 2020 Summit on Improvement in Education, shares how narratives can be used to foster improvement ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education<\/div>
The Foundational Handbook in Improvement Research in Education elaborates the intellectual foundations, explores the organizational and policy contexts, reviews approaches, and ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Getting Better at Getting Better: Improvement Dispositions in Education<\/div>
This paper summarizes findings of an exploratory study to understand important dispositions common among educational improvers. Drawing on interviews with ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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High Reliability Organizations: Lessons from Other Industries and Their Application to Education (Summit 2020)<\/div>
Existing in many different sectors, high-reliability organizations achieve consistently high-quality outcomes while avoiding serious accidents and failures. This session, recorded ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools<\/div>
How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools offers comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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How to Launch a Productive Network<\/div>
This is the first post in a series of designed to explore and bring to life the framework for initiating ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Hub Leadership Capabilities<\/div>
Hub leadership teams support the development of a NIC and its ability to function as a scientific, professional learning community ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Identifying a Target Area for Improvement (PDSA Video Series #1)<\/div>
This video highlights an important pre-planning step in the Plan-Do-Study-Acty (PDSA) process and offers key considerations for selecting a target ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improvement Coaching Casebook and Discussion Guide<\/div>
This casebook and discussion guide is designed for improvement coaches, individually and in groups, to learn through reflecting on and ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improvement Discipline in Practice<\/div>
In this post, Learning to Improve co-author Alicia Grunow reflects on the ways that improvement science as a formal method builds on ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improvement Dispositions: Overview & Reflection Activity<\/div>
There are several dispositions or mindsets that can cultivate an improvement culture and fuel improvement efforts. This set of resources ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improvement in Action<\/div>
Improvement in Action highlights six examples of rigorous, high-quality improvement work in districts, schools, and professional development networks across the country. ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improvement is a Team Sport<\/div>
This post illustrates how features of user-centered design bring to life the improvement principle of making the work problem-centered and ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improvement Reviews<\/div>
Improvement Reviews are structured sessions for improvement teams and networks to ask for and receive feedback on specific aspects of ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improvement Science in Practice: Finding Solutions Through Iterative Testing\u2120<\/div>
Improvement Science in Practice: Finding Solutions Through Iterative Testing\u2120 is an intermediate-level course for individuals and teams seeking to strengthen ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Improving America\u2019s Schools Together<\/div>
Improving America\u2019s Schools Together: How District-University Partnerships and Continuous Improvement Can Transform Education includes stories, examples, and tools from 11 district-university ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Inclusive Classrooms Survey (Practical Measure Example)<\/div>
This blog post describes the use of a practical measure developed by an improvement network focused on integrating culturally responsive ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Introducing the Six Improvement Principles<\/div>
Hear Tony Bryk, president emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, describe the need for networked improvement ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Introduction to a System of Measures<\/div>
This short video introduces the different kinds of measures that together form a system of measures. A system of measures ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Introduction to Improvement Science: A Learning-By-Doing Simulation Facilitator\u2019s Handbook<\/div>
This facilitator\u2019s handbook and related teaching materials prepare an experienced improver to lead a group through a case-based simulation of ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Introduction to Networked Improvement Basics\u2120<\/div>
Introduction to Networked Improvement Basics\u2120 is an online course that introduces how improvement science brings discipline and specific methods to ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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It\u2019s Complex<\/div>
In this post, Learning to Improve co-author Louis Gomez distinguishes between complicated and complex problems, and the differences in what is required ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Keeping Team Members Engaged & Committed (Facilitating Improvement Teams Video Series #1)<\/div>
This video highlights two social tools that improvement team facilitators and coaches can leverage to maintain engagement and commitment: a ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Leading Education Systems Towards Continuous Improvement: Supplemental Resource List<\/div>
This annotated list of references and resources is curated for system leaders seeking to strengthen their knowledge and skills to ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Learning from Variation: A Case-Based Approach (Summit 2022)<\/div>
This session, presented at the 2022 Summit on Improvement in Education, explores how examination of variation can point to opportunities ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Learning Through Iterative Testing (PDSA Video Series #4)<\/div>
This video delves into the Study and Act steps of the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, focusing on how to surface learning ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Learning to Improve Glossary<\/div>
This glossary organizes a selection of key terms used in the book, Learning to Improve: How America\u2019s Schools Can Get Better ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Learning to Improve: How America\u2019s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better<\/div>
Learning to Improve shows how a disciplined approach to inquiry, combined with the power of social learning in a network, can ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Measurement & Data Activity: Kicking a Paper Football<\/div>
This hands-on activity demonstrates how iterative tests of change (PDSA cycles) are informed by data, while also emphasizing the characteristics ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Measurement & Data Activity: Paper Airplane Game<\/div>
In this hands-on activity participants will practice using data for quality improvement to generate and test change ideas connected to ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Measurement for Improvement (Summit 2020)<\/div>
This session, pre-recorded as part of the virtual 2020 Summit on Improvement in Education, explores ways that measurement for improvement ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Measurement System Example<\/div>
In this video the presenter describes the system of measures that the Building Teacher Effectiveness Network (BTEN) used to learn ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Measuring to Improve: Practical Measurement to Support Continuous Improvement in Education<\/div>
Measuring to Improve introduces the foundational elements of practical measurement to support continuous improvement in K-12 schools. Detailed case studies of ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Meeting Management Tools<\/div>
These templates (e.g., agenda, action plan, etc.) can be used by improvement team facilitators and coaches to prepare for meetings ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Networked Improvement Communities (NICs)<\/div>
This one-page reference summarizes key definitions, features, and organizational structures of a Networked Improvement Community (NIC). A Networked Improvement Community ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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NIC Initiation Hub Self-Assessment<\/div>
This self-assessment tool enables network initiation or hub teams to assess their readiness to launch a networked improvement community. It ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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NILS\u2122: Networked Improvement Learning and Support platform<\/div>
The Networked Improvement Learning and Support (NILS\u2122) platform supports social learning and improvement testing within networked improvement communities (NICs). Purpose-built ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Organizing a Network for Collective Action<\/div>
This is the third post in a series designed to explore and bring to life the framework for initiating networked ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Organizing Distributed Learning in a Network (Summit Session 2021)<\/div>
Networks have the power to accelerate learning when they organize around a shared theory of improvement. This session, recorded at ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Orienting In and Orienting Out: The Political Context of Leading and Managing NICs<\/div>
This sixth post in a series on networked improvement community (NIC) initiation focuses on how network leaders consider the policy, ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Participation Measure (Practical Measure Example)<\/div>
This case highlights the importance of developing measures that are context-specific and provide usable, relevant information to front-line practitioners. The ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Game: Coin Spinning<\/div>
This activity provides an introduction to the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, allowing groups to \u201clearn by doing\u201d as they practice testing ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Game: Mr. Potato Head<\/div>
This activity provides an introduction to the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, allowing groups to practice engaging in disciplined inquiry and iterative ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Game: Number Sequence<\/div>
During this activity, teams experience conducting multiple PDSA cycles (iterative testing) to learn about a change idea and build confidence ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Ramp Planning Template<\/div>
PDSA ramps provide a way to continue to learn about and refine a change through related, repeated cycles of testing ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Reflection Guide: Identifying a Testable Change Idea<\/div>
This worksheet guides individuals in selecting and scoping a change idea prior to testing it to ensure that it is ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Reflection Guide: Identifying a Testable Change Idea<\/div>
This worksheet guides individuals in selecting and scoping a change idea prior to testing it to ensure that it is ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Reflection Guide: Moving from Act to Plan<\/div>
This worksheet guides individuals to reflect on learnings from a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle and use this evidence to inform refinements ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PDSA Reflection Guide: Preparing to Learn in New Contexts<\/div>
This worksheet guides individuals to reflect on what they have learned to-date from tests of a particular change, and where ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Form<\/div>
This fillable template can be used to document plans, predictions, learnings and next steps when testing a change idea using ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Planning for Success: Navigating Spread and Scale in System Change<\/div>
This session, presented at the 2024 Summit on Improvement in Education, discusses key considerations for planning to spread or scale ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Planning What and How We Will Learn (PDSA Video Series #3)<\/div>
This video delves into the Plan and Do steps of the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, focusing on the role of learning ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Practical Measurement for Improvement<\/div>
This site offers definitions, guidance, examples, and technical briefs related to leveraging practical measures for continuous improvement. Designed to help ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Practical Measurement Quick Reference Guide<\/div>
Practical measurement for improvement enables system actors to learn continuously about whether the changes that they are introducing are leading ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Problem Statements<\/div>
A carefully defined, specific problem statement can help to focus a team\u2019s work. This guide highlights the value of a ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Redressing Inequities: An Aspiration in Search of a Method<\/div>
Read or watch this keynote delivered by past Carnegie President Anthony S. Bryk at the 2017 Summit on Improvement in ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Run Charts: A Tool for Analysis in Improvement Science (Summit 2020)<\/div>
Run charts are an important tool for representing data in an improvement effort, for understanding variation over time, and for ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Scaling Up Without Screwing Up (Summit 2021)<\/div>
In this session, offered at the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education, presenter Huggy Rao, professor at the graduate school ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Seeing a System: Butterfly Effect Activity<\/div>
This activity introduces systems thinking, allowing participants to experience the interdependencies of a complex system. A facilitator can use this ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Selecting a Testable Change Idea (PDSA Video Series #2)<\/div>
This video discusses considerations for refining change ideas when planning a Plan-Do-Study Act (PDSA) cycle. It also highlights how a ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Selecting and Scoping Change Ideas (Facilitating Improvement Teams Video Series #5)<\/div>
This video discusses a meeting protocol that improvement team facilitators and coaches can use to help their teams prioritize change ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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SIMPL OR Measure (Practical Measure Example)<\/div>
This blog describes how technology can be leveraged to collect meaningful data to inform improvement efforts. The case also highlights ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Six Improvement Principles<\/div>
The Six Improvement Principles are core organizing ideas for improvement science. They speak to how problems are unpacked and understood ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Center for Urban Education Leadership, University of Illinois at Chicago<\/div>
In 2018, the Center for Urban Education Leadership, University of Illinois at Chicago was recognized with the Spotlight on Quality ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Central Valley Networked Improvement Community, Tulare County Office of Education<\/div>
The Central Valley Networked Improvement Community (CVNIC) was recognized with the Spotlight on Quality in Continuous Improvement in 2018 for ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Connecticut RISE Network<\/div>
The Connecticut RISE Network was recognized in 2020 with the Spotlight on Quality in Continuous Improvement for its work with ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Literacy Design Collaborative<\/div>
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) works to develop skilled educators equipped to support all learners and aims to improve standards-driven ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Memphis KIPP Wheatley Learning Collaborative, KIPP Foundation<\/div>
The Learning Collaborative, a networked improvement community of four charter networks in Tennessee, formed around raising persistently low literacy achievement ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: National Implementation Research Network and Kentucky Department of Education<\/div>
The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN), in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, was recognized with the Spotlight on ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Northwest Regional Education Service District<\/div>
Northwest Regional Education Service District (NWRESD) serves schools and districts in four counties in northwestern Oregon. They formed a 9th ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Queensland Department of Education<\/div>
The Queensland Department of Education (Australia) was honored with the Spotlight on Quality in Continuous Improvement in 2019 for its ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: StriveTogether and United Way of Salt Lake<\/div>
StriveTogether and United Way of Salt Lake joined together to convene an impact and improvement network of school and community ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: Un Buen Comienzo Improvement Network, Fundaci\u00f3n Educacional Oportunidad<\/div>
In 2018, the nonprofit organization Fundaci\u00f3n Educacional Oportunidad was recognized with the Spotlight on Quality in Continuous Improvement for its ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spotlight: University of Chicago Network for College Success<\/div>
The University of Chicago Network for College Success (NCS) partnered with high schools in the Chicago Public School district to ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Spreading and Scaling Change (PDSA Video Series #5)<\/div>
This video introduces PDSA ramps as a tool for learning about a change idea and building confidence in its efficacy ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Starting a Network: Why and What Type<\/div>
Summarizing ideas presented in the Kappan article \u201cThe Right Network for the Right Problem,\u201d (Gomez et al, 2016), this blog ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Student Engagement Exit Ticket (Practical Measure Example)<\/div>
Practical measures for improvement are user-centered. This blog describes how an improvement community centered front-line improvers as they designed their ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Student Independent Writing Time Measure (Practical Measure Example)<\/div>
Practical measures do not need to be complex in order to provide valuable signals and information to drive improvement. This ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Supporting Behavior Change (Facilitating Improvement Teams Video Series #2)<\/div>
This video focuses on strategies that improvement team facilitators and coaches can leverage to encourage others to think and work ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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System Improvement Map<\/div>
A system improvement map is used to visualize the structures, processes, and norms that exist in different parts of a ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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System Leader Toolkit: Diagnostic Tool for Reflection<\/div>
The Diagnostic Tool for Reflection in this toolkit is a self-assessment designed to help K-12 system-level leaders reflect on their ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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System Leader Toolkit: Tools for Growth<\/div>
The System Leader Toolkit: Tools for Growth includes two resources for leaders: the Mini 360 Feedback Tool and the Personal A3. These instruments ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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System Levers Toolkit: Tools For Change<\/div>
The System Lever Toolkit: Tools for Change includes two tools for leaders: a SWOT Analysis and a Living Leadership for System Transformation Activity. ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Teaching Commons<\/div>
The Carnegie Teaching Commons is a searchable collection of instructional resources for the teaching of improvement science and networked improvement ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Team Narrative Protocol<\/div>
This protocol can be used by improvement facilitators and coaches to lead a team in creating a shared narrative that ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Psychology of Change in Improvement<\/div>
This session, recorded at the 2021 Summit on Improvement in Education, explores the human side of change. Grounded in the ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Social Structure of Networked Improvement Communities: Cultivating the Emergence of a Scientific-Professional Learning Community<\/div>
This paper describes a framework for network development. The framework describes the technical core of improvement activity as well as ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Theories of Practice Improvement<\/div>
In this video, the presenter explains how a theory of practice improvement, represented in a driver diagram, supports coordinated action ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Theory of Networked Improvement Community (NIC) Development (Summit 2021)<\/div>
Thriving networked improvement communities (NICs) exhibit distinct social structures that support and enable the technical improvement work that the NIC ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Theory of Practice Improvement & Driver Diagrams<\/div>
A theory of improvement connects an improvement aim to the specific practices or changes that are hypothesized to be needed ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Transforming Educational Systems Toward Continuous Improvement: A Reflection Guide for K\u201312 Executive Leaders<\/div>
This Reflection Guide summarizes the findings of a Carnegie Foundation project to understand how executive leaders in education transform their ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Two Wisconsin School Districts Pave an Early Path to Continuous Improvement<\/div>
In this blog post, two superintendents reflect on their work to develop their school districts as continuously improving organizations. Two ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Understanding the Problem & System: Empathy Interview & Process Map Activities<\/div>
There are many tools that can be leveraged to investigate a problem and the system producing it. These materials for ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Understanding the Problem in Your Context (Facilitating Improvement Teams Video Series #3)<\/div>
This video discusses the importance of leading a team to deeply understand a problem and the system producing it. It ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Unpacking a PDSA: Reflective Analysis Tool<\/div>
This resource highlights key moves and considerations for each phase of the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, including coaching moves to support learning ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Using Data for Improvement: Data Infrastructure Activity<\/div>
In this simulation activity, participants explore the complexities of undertaking measurement to inform improvement activities and the infrastructure (roles, processes, ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Using Data for Improvement: Pareto Graph Activity<\/div>
In this activity, participants will explore how a pareto graph can be leveraged to analyze variation in data and better ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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What We Need in Education is More Integrity (and Less Fidelity) of Implementation<\/div>
This blog post discusses the challenge of bringing empirically-warranted solutions into new settings in ways that are sensitive to local ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Why a NIC?<\/div>
This 2015 blog post introduces the distinctive features of Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) and identifies some of their advantages for ... Read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n