Building Capacity for Improvement Through Collaboration: Findings From the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools

• In Event: Poster Session 15
  In Poster Session: Poster Fair B: Data Use and Research in the Schools

Abstract

A promising avenue for more tightly linking the work of researchers, practitioners, and other actors in the field of education - like development specialists – lies with the construction of collaborative improvement processes. This study seeks to describe one such effort, headed by the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools. Through construction of detailed case studies from rich data gathered in two large, urban school districts, we identify the successes and challenges experienced by the Center and its partners as they worked to build the capacity of district actors to design, develop, implement and, eventually, scale up educational innovations.

Authors

• Christopher Harrison, Florida Southern College

• Christopher Redding, Vanderbilt University - Peabody College

• Stephanie Brown, Florida State University

• John Wachen, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Jason Miller, Vanderbilt University - Peabody College

• Allison Rose Socol, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill