Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide a forum within AERA for the involvement of individuals drawn together by a common interest in a field of study, teaching, or research when the existing divisional structure may not directly facilitate such activity. The Association provides SIGs program time at the Annual Meeting, publicity, scheduling, staff support, viability, and the prestige of AERA affiliation.
We are pleased to offer five webinars intended to familiarize you with the concept of a Networked Improvement Community, and each of the four important components and elements of a successful NIC. An introductory 30-minute webinar will feature one or two experts from out team providing key background information about the focal challenges of building a NIC. A facilitated discussion forum will continue for two weeks after the video is posted to this site. At the end of the two weeks, another live webinar with the same expert will be featured. This follow-up webinar will focus on the topics that have arisen through the online forum, as well as questions that are asked live during the webinar.
Torres, A. C., Bulkley, K., & Kim, T. (2020). Shared Leadership for Learning in Denver’s Portfolio Management Model. Educational Administration Quarterly, 56(5), 819–855. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X20906546
Schueler, B. E. (2018). A Third Way: The Politics of School District Takeover and Turnaround in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 2019. 55(1), 116–153. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X18785873
Krumm, A., Boyce, J., D’Angelo, C., Podkul, T., Feng, M., Christiano, E., & Snow, E. (2016). Project Based Learning Virtual Instructional Coaching Networked Improvement Community (p. 17). SRI Education.
Krumm, A., Means, B., & Bienkowski, M. (2018). Learning Analytics Goes to School: A Collaborative Approach to Improving Education (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Learning-Analytics-Goes-to-School-A-Collaborative-Approach-to-Improving/Krumm-Means-Bienkowski/p/book/9781138121836
Glazer, J. L., Massell, D., & Malone, M. (2019). Charter Schools in Turnaround: Competing Institutional Logics in the Tennessee Achievement School District. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 41(1), 5–33. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373718795051
Peurach, D. J., & Russell, J. L. (2019). The Scholarship of Improvement: Building Community Around an Emerging Tradition of Practice-Focused Research. AERA Annual Meeting. http://tinyurl.com/y7hm68ar
Eddy-Spicer, D. (2020). Leadership for Continuous Improvement. University of Virginia. https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1XzuVOP9wsZTMRT8zFA-O8BfCccBs5jtzjKUBUZqpjiA/
Cohen-Vogel, L., Tichnor-Wagner, A., Allen, D., Harrison, C., Kainz, K., Socol, A. R., & Wang, Q. (2015). Implementing Educational Innovations at Scale: Transforming Researchers Into Continuous Improvement Scientists. Educational Policy, 29(1), 257-277. PAIS Index; Research Library. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904814560886
Tichnor-Wagner, A., Wachen, J., Cannata, M., & Cohen-Vogel, L. (2017). Continuous Improvement in the Public School Context: Understanding How Educators Respond to Plan–Do–Study–Act Cycles. Journal of Educational Change, 18(4), 465–494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-017-9301-4
Bang, M., & Vossoughi, S. (2016). Participatory Design Research and Educational Justice: Studying Learning and Relations Within Social Change Making. Cognition and Instruction, 34(3), 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2016.1181879
Kochmanski, N. (2020). Aspects of High-Quality Mathematics Coaching: What Coaches Need to Know and Be Able to Do to Support Individual Teachers’ Learning [Thesis]. https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/16114
Jackson, K., & Gibbons, L. (2014). Accounting for How Practitioners Frame a Common Problem of Practice: Students’ Struggle in Mathematics. Annual Meeting of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Russell, J. L., Correnti, R., Stein, M. K., Thomas, A., Bill, V., & Speranzo, L. (2020). Mathematics Coaching for Conceptual Understanding: Promising Evidence Regarding the Tennessee Math Coaching Model. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 42(3), 439–466. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373720940699
Coburn, C. E., & Penuel, W. R. (2016). Research–Practice Partnerships in Education: Outcomes, Dynamics, and Open Questions. Educational Researcher, 45(1), 48–54. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X16631750
Glazer, J. L., Massell, D., Larbi-Cherif, A., Egan, C., Taylor, J. E., Ison, A., Deleveaux, J., & Millington, Z. (2020). District-Led School Turnaround: Aiming for Ambitious and Equitable Instruction in Shelby County’s iZone. https://repository.upenn.edu/cpre_researchreports/114/
Penuel, W. R., Peurach, D. J., LeBoeuf, W. A., Riedy, R., Barber, M., Clark, T., & Gabriele, K. (2017). Defining Collaborative Problem Solving Research: Common Values and Distinctive Approaches. University of Colorado.
Eddy-Spicer, D. H. (2019, April 8). Improvement Leadership Education and Development (iLEAD) Research-Practice Preparation Partnership: The University of Virginia and Chesterfield County Public Schools. AERA Annual Meeting. http://tinyurl.com/yb6l9n6l
Fishman, B. J., Penuel, W. R., Allen, A.-R., Cheng, B. H., & Sabelli, N. (2013). Design-Based Implementation Research: An Emerging Model for Transforming the Relationship of Research and Practice. National Society for the Study of Education, 112(2), 136–156.
Eddy-Spicer, D. (2019). Applying Realist Methodology to the Study of Collaborative Capacity in Networked Improvement Initiatives. AERA Annual Meeting. http://tinyurl.com/y9zz3w2f
Penuel, W. R., & Gallagher, D. J. (2017). Creating Research-Practice Partnerships in Education. Harvard Education Press. https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/creating-research-practice-partnerships-in-educati
Cannata, M. A., Smith, T. M., & Taylor Haynes, K. (2017). Integrating Academic Press and Support by Increasing Student Ownership and Responsibility. AERA Open, 3(3), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858417713181
Hu, S., Torphy, K. T., Chen, Z., & Eagan, B. (2018). How Do US Teachers Align Instructional Resources to The Common Core State Standards: A Case of Pinterest. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society - SMSociety ’18, 315–319. https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217936
Henrick, E., Cobb, P., & Jackson, K. (2015). Educational Design Research to Support System-Wide Instructional Improvement. In A. Bikner-Ahsbahs, C. Knipping, & N. Presmeg (Eds.), Approaches to Qualitative Research in Mathematics Education: Examples of Methodology and Methods (pp. 497–530). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9181-6_18
Sherer, D., Norman, J., Bryk, A. S., Peurach, D. J., Vasudeva, A., & McMahon, K. (2020). Evidence for improvement: An Integrated Analytic Approach for Supporting Networks in Education. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
Farrell, C., Davidson, K. L., Repko-Erwin, M., Penuel, W. R., Quantz, M., Wong, H., Riedy, R., & Brink, Z. (2018). A Descriptive Study of the IES Researcher–Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research Program (Technical Report No. 3). National Center for Research in Policy and Practice.
Duff, M., Buckley Flack, C., Wohlstetter, P., Massell, D., & Lyle, A. G. (2019). Managing Networks for School Improvement: 7 Lessons from the Field. https://repository.upenn.edu/cpre_workingpapers/21
Greany, T., & Higham, R. (2018). Hierarchy, Markets and Networks: Analysing the “self-improving school-led system” agenda in England and the implications for schools. UCL Institute of Education Press. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053501/1/Hierarchy%20Markets%20and%20Networks%20FINAL.pdf
Bowers, A. J. (2011). What’s in a Grade? The Multidimensional Nature of What Teacher-Assigned Grades Assess in High School. Educational Research and Evaluation, 17(3), 141–159. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2011.597112
Penuel, W. R., Farrell, C. C., Anderson, E. R., Coburn, C. E., Allen, A.-R., Bohannon, A. X., Hopkins, M., & Brown, S. (2020). A Comparative, Descriptive Study of Three Research–Practice Partnerships (Technical Report No. 4). National Center for Research in Policy and Practice.
Russell, J. L., Correnti, R., Stein, M. K., Hannan, M., Bill, V., Schwartz, N., Booker, L. N., & Pratt, N. R. (2015, October 7). Using Data for Improvement to Support Implementation At Scale: Adaptive Integration in the TN Mathematics Coaching Project. Using Continuous Improvement to Integrating Design, Implementation, and Scale Up, Nashville, TN. https://my.vanderbilt.edu/scalingupcenter/files/2016/12/Using-Data-for-Improvement-to-Support-Implementation-At-Scale-Adaptive-Integration-in-the-TN-Mathematics-Coaching-Project-.pdf
Russell, J. L., Correnti, R., Stein, M. K., Bill, V., Hannan, M., Schwartz, N., Booker, L. N., Pratt, N. R., & Matthis, C. (2020). Learning From Adaptation to Support Instructional Improvement at Scale: Understanding Coach Adaptation in the TN Mathematics Coaching Project. American Educational Research Journal, 57(1), 148–187. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219854050
Peurach, D. J., Foster, A. T., Lyle, A., & Seeber, E. (2021). Democratizing Educational Innovation and Improvement: The Policy Contexts of Improvement Research in Education. CPRE Working Papers. https://repository.upenn.edu/cpre_workingpapers/27
van den Boom-Muilenburg, S. N., Poortman, C. L., Daly, A. J., Schildkamp, K., de Vries, S., Rodway, J., & van Veen, K. (2022). Key Actors Leading Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable School Improvement With PLCs: Who Brokers What? Teaching and Teacher Education, 110, 103577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103577
Henrick, E. C., Cobb, P., Penuel, W. R., Jackson, K., & Clark, T. (2017). Assessing Research-Practice Partnerships: Five Dimensions of Effectiveness. William T Grant Foundation. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED610463
Ghiso, M. P., Campano, G., Schwab, E. R., Asaah, D., & Rusoja, A. (2019). Mentoring in Research-Practice Partnerships: Toward Democratizing Expertise. AERA Open, 5(4), 2332858419879448. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858419879448
Gomez Zaccarelli, F. S. (2015). Developing Supports for Conversations About Teaching: Negotiating Problems of Practice in Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations [Ph.D., University of Michigan]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1791473053
Supovitz, J., & Peurach, D. J. (2017, January 27). Large-Scale, Network-Based Educational Improvement Initiatives [Audio Podcast]. Research Minutes: Educational Research & Policy Podcast. Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). https://www.researchminutes.org/episode/large-scale-network-based-educational-improvement-initiatives/
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