Improving: Joining Improvement Science to Networked Communities [AERA Distinguished Lecture]

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Title: Improving: Joining Improvement Science to Networked Communities [AERA Distinguished Lecture]
Abstract/Description: For the past five years, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been pioneering a fundamentally new vision for research and development that joins the discipline of improvement science with the capabilities of networks to foster innovation and social learning. This talk will illustrate the six principles of improvement that guide this work. It will introduce the idea of analytically and empirically rigorous practice-based evidence for advancing quality outcomes reliably at scale. In so doing, it reframes the work of applied educational research as an effort of systematically learning to improve. It stands as a counterpoint both to policy initiatives pressing rapid large-scale implementation and also autonomous efforts engaged in by individual teachers and schools seeking to improve.
Author/creator: Bryk, Anthony S.
Date: April 6, 2014
At conference: American Educational Research Association Conference
Place presented: Philadelphia
Publisher: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Presentation/Poster; en Film/Audiovisual Recording
Scholarship genre: en Methodological
IRE Approach/Concept: Networked Improvement Community (NIC); Improvement Science
Featured case/project: Baltimore Public Schools (BPS)
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
URL: Presentation Information (via AERA Website); Recording of Livestreamed Presentation (via YouTube); Official 2014 AERA Conference Program (via AERA Website)
Alternate version: 2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve
Other related resources/entities: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Citation: Bryk, A. S. (2014, April 6). Improving: Joining Improvement Science to Networked Communities [AERA Distinguished Lecture]. American Educational Research Association Conference. Philadelphia: American Educational Research Association (AERA). https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/2014-Annual-Meeting-Details/2014-Annual-Meeting-Key-Sessions