Network-Based Instructional Improvement: Building Constructs for Research and Practice

• In Event: Networks and Improvement Communities

Abstract

Increasingly, educational networks are regarded as unique organizational arrangements capable of supporting large-scale instructional improvement (Barletta et al., 2018; Chapman & Aspin, 2003; Peurach et al., 2014; Wohlstetter & Lyle, 2019). With state and federal policies embracing more rigorous standards for teaching and learning, educational networks offer new models for supporting instructional improvement at scale. Through an exploration of two educational networks in New York City, we identify, test, and authenticate a set of analytic constructs to help scholars and others understand and reason about the work of leading and managing large-scale instructional improvement. In doing so, we push forward an analytic frame to support research and analysis in this area. [policy; instructional reform; networks]

Author

• Angela Lyle, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor