The Right Network for the Right Problem

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Title: The Right Network for the Right Problem
Abstract/Description: Educators are realizing that individuals working in isolation can’t adequately address the teaching and learning problems that face us today. Collective action networks are needed. Sharing networks use collective energy to support individual action and agency, whereas execution networks typically address complex problems that require sustained collective action to resolve. One kind of execution network -- networked improvement communities (NIC) -- can be of great value to educators as they tackle complex problems of practice. The story of the formation of the Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership (MTEP) illustrates how catalyzing a NIC is different from forming a sharing community and why a formal infrastructure is required for sustained collective action.
Author/creator: Gomez, Louis M.; Russell, Jennifer Lin; Bryk, Anthony S.; LeMahieu, Paul G.; Mejia, Eva M.
Date: 2016
In publication: Phi Delta Kappan
Volume: 98
Issue: 3
Pages: 8-15
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0031-7217
DOI: 10.1177/0031721716677256
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE); Article on Author's Profile (ResearchGate)
Citation: Gomez, L. M., Russell, J. L., Bryk, A. S., LeMahieu, P. G., & Mejia, E. M. (2016). The Right Network for the Right Problem. Phi Delta Kappan, 98(3), 8–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721716677256
Cited in: Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education; Continuous Improvement and "High Leverage" Educational Problems
Abbreviation: Phi Delta Kappan

Item sets: Handbook Chapter 11 Citations; OB Citations - Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Improvement Networks; OB Citations - Continuous Improvement and "High Leverage" Educational Problems

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