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A View From Within: Lessons Learned From Doing Continuous Improvement Research

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Abstract

Traditional methods of implementing educational innovations face a number of critical challenges that have problematized efforts to improve practice, particularly at scale. Recently, a new continuous improvement approach has gained attention by developing and testing educational innovations through structured, iterative processes that incorporate the wisdom of practitioners, are responsive to individual school contexts, and promote organizational learning over time. The National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NCSU) is one purveyor of such an approach, working to enact an improvement process in two large, urban school districts. In working through its process, NCSU encountered a number of successes and challenges. This paper identifies these “learning points,” and identifies several lessons drawn from them that hold important implications for future work.

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