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
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
DOI: 10.1177/016146811611801301
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals); Item on ERIC (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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