Engaging Educational Innovation and Improvement (EDUC 639)

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Title: Engaging Educational Innovation and Improvement (EDUC 639)
Alternate name: Analyzing School Organizations and the Policy Environment (EDUC 551)
Abstract/Description: EDUC 551 and EDUC 639 will be meeting jointly for this exciting course.

The course is an experiment aimed at catalyzing a world-wide community of impassioned educational professionals committed to engaging educational innovation and improvement as a field of study and a domain of practice. The course is open to all masters and doctoral students in the University of Michigan, as well as to advanced undergraduate students (with instructor permission).

Engaging Educational Innovation and Improvement is being offered at a fascinating moment in the history of US public education. Over the past decade, a new educational reform movement has taken shape, one that has practicing educators, researchers, and reformers collaborating in novel “school improvement networks” to address educational problems, needs, and opportunities using formal methods of continuous improvement. One marker of the currency of this movement is a $500M grant program launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Fall 2017 to support school improvement networks in raising academic success, high school graduation, and college placement among black, Hispanic, and poor students in the nation’s most challenged schools.

EDUC 551/639, Engaging Educational Innovation and Improvement, introduces University of Michigan students to the theory and practice that sit at the very center of both the “improvement movement” and the Gates-funded network initiative. The course does so using a novel, online learning platform: the School of Education’s Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement MicroMasters program. With that, University of Michigan students will also serve as ambassadors of the MicroMasters program in supporting other learners in the US and around the world in engaging the theory and practice of educational innovation and improvement.
Author/creator: See all items with this value Peurach, Donald J.
Date: 2019
Unit/school: School of Education
Institution: University of Michigan
Resource type: en Education/Pedagogical Resource
Pedagogical resource type: en Syllabus
Area/Discipline: Educational Studies
Intended audience level/student group: en Graduate
IRE Approach/Concept: Improvement Science; Continuous Improvement; Equity; School Improvement Networks/Networks for School Improvement (NSI)
Open access: en Yes
Url: Course Description (via University of Michigan School of Education); Course Description (via Center for Academic Innovation); Open Access Course Syllabus PDF; PDF: "Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement" FAQ
Other related resources/entities: MicroMasters® Program: Leading Educational Innovation and Improvement (MichiganX); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Citation: Peurach, D. J. (n.d.). School Organization and the Policy Environment. University of Michigan School of Education. Retrieved August 20, 2022, from https://soe.umich.edu/academics-admissions/course-syllabi/educ-551