Learning to improve : how America's schools can get better at getting better / Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Paul G. Lemahieu.

Author/creator Bryk, Anthony S. author.
Other author Gomez, Louis M. author.
Other author Grunow, Alicia, author.
Other author LeMahieu, Paul G., author.
Format Electronic
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2015]
Copyright Date©2015
Description1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects
School improvement programs--United States.
Inquiry-based learning.

Portion of title How America's schools can get better at getting better
Contents 1. Make the Work Problem-Specific and User-Centered -- 2. Focus on Variation in Performance -- 3. See the System That Produces the Current Outcomes -- 4. We Cannot Improve at Scale What We Cannot Measure -- 5. Use Disciplined Inquiry to Drive Improvement -- 6. Accelerate Learning Through Networked Communities -- 7. Living Improvement.
Abstract "Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, Learning to Improve shows how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Rather than "implementing fast and learning slow," the authors believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to "learn fast to implement well." The authors focus on six principles that represent the foundational elements for improvement science carried out in networked communities: make the work problem-specific and user-centered; focus on variation in performance; see the system that produces the current outcomes; we cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure; use disciplined inquiry to drive improvement; accelerate learning through networked communities. Learning to Improve offers a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation's schools and colleges."--Back cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index.
LanguageText in English.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Bryk, Anthony S. Learning to improve. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2015] 9781612507910 1612507913
ISBN9781612507934 (electronic bk.)
ISBN161250793X (electronic bk.)

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