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Learning to improve : how America's schools can get better at getting better / Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Paul G. Lemahieu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryk, Anthony S., author.
- Gomez, Louis M., author.
- Grunow, Alicia, author.
- LeMahieu, Paul G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- United States.
- Inquiry-based learning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- How America's schools can get better at getting better
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 national schools and colleges. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A better way
- 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
- Living improvement.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781612507934
- 161250793X
- Publisher Number:
- 99984076393
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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