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Session Type: Symposium
Structured collaborations between practitioners and researchers working towards addressing persistent problems have recently emerged in education, with limited literature around a conceptual organization and research around their effectiveness. One form of such Research-Practice Partnerships are increasingly forming - Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) - organized around the use of improvement science methods and networked learning. This symposium offers first a conceptual framework of NIC development derived from the literature and actual cases of NICs, followed by three empirical studies building a deeper understanding of different dimensions of the framework. A discussant knowledgeable of RPPs and improvement networks will serve as a critical friend and engage the audience in discussion.
The Social Organization of Networked Improvement Communities - Jennifer Lin Russell, University of Pittsburgh; Anthony S. Bryk, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Edit Khachatryan; Paul LeMahieu, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Donald J. Peurach, University of Michigan; Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, University of Pittsburgh; Maggie Hannan
Getting Better at Getting Better: Developing Improvement Habits and Identities - Manuelito Biag, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; David Gilbert Sherer, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
How Participation Structures and Routines Contribute to Critical Learning Needs to Support Network Functioning - Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, University of Pittsburgh; Jennifer Elise Iriti, University of Pittsburgh; Jennifer Lin Russell, University of Pittsburgh
Using Social Network Analysis to Inform Organizational Design in a Networked Improvement Community - David Gilbert Sherer, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching