A Model of Continuous Improvement in High Schools: A Process for Research, Innovation Design, Implementation, and Scale

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Title

A Model of Continuous Improvement in High Schools: A Process for Research, Innovation Design, Implementation, and Scale

Abstract/Description

This chapter describes a model for continuous improvement that guides the work of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, or NCSU. NCSU is a research and development center funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, the research arm of the United States Department of Education. At the core of the Center's work is an innovative process to bring to scale practices that have been shown to improve student achievement in high schools in Broward County, Florida, and Fort Worth, Texas. To do so, the Center's model of improvement relies on three core principles. First, a prototype is built to reflect the core elements of programs or practices that have been shown to be effective locally. Second, rapid-cycle testing is used to allow the prototype to be revised in ways that adapt it to a particular school context. Third, a researcher-practitioner partnership is employed that strives to both take advantage of and build local ownership and expertise. In so doing, the continuous improvement model addresses well-known challenges faced by those attempting to scale up educational innovations, challenges such as building teacher buy-in and attending to the organizational context in which innovations are to be enacted.

Author/creator

Cohen-Vogel, Lora

Cannata, Marisa A.

Rutledge, Stacey A.

Socol, Allison Rose

Date

2016

In publication

Teachers College Record

Volume

118

Issue

13

Pages

1-26

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Empirical

en Methodological

IRE Approach/Concept

Continuous Improvement

Research Practice Partnership (RPP)

Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) Cycle

Personalization for Academic and Social Emotional Learning (PASL)

Featured case/project

National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NCSU)

Broward County Public Schools (BCPS)

Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD)

Primary national context

United States

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

ISSN-0161-4681

DOI

10.1177/016146811611801301

URL

Publisher Webpage

ERIC Link (#EJ1108493)

Grant number

Institute of Education Sciences (R305C10023)

Citation

Cohen-Vogel, L., Cannata, M., Rutledge, S. A., & Socol, A. R. (2016). A Model of Continuous Improvement in High Schools: A Process for Research, Innovation Design, Implementation, and Scale. Teachers College Record, 118(13), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811611801301

Cited in

Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

Cross-National Research on Continuous Improvement

Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science

Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement

Item sets

Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement

Oxford Bibliographies [Special Series]: Continuous Improvement in Education

OB Citations - Cross National Research on Continuous Improvement

OB Citations - Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science

OB Citations - Scale and Sustainability of Education Innovation and Improvement

OB Citations - Traditions of Quality Improvement in Education

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