Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide a forum within AERA for the involvement of individuals drawn together by a common interest in a field of study, teaching, or research when the existing divisional structure may not directly facilitate such activity. The Association provides SIGs program time at the Annual Meeting, publicity, scheduling, staff support, viability, and the prestige of AERA affiliation.
We are pleased to offer five webinars intended to familiarize you with the concept of a Networked Improvement Community, and each of the four important components and elements of a successful NIC. An introductory 30-minute webinar will feature one or two experts from out team providing key background information about the focal challenges of building a NIC. A facilitated discussion forum will continue for two weeks after the video is posted to this site. At the end of the two weeks, another live webinar with the same expert will be featured. This follow-up webinar will focus on the topics that have arisen through the online forum, as well as questions that are asked live during the webinar.
Cohen-Vogel, L., Tichnor-Wagner, A., Allen, D., Harrison, C., Kainz, K., Socol, A. R., & Wang, Q. (2015). Implementing Educational Innovations at Scale: Transforming Researchers Into Continuous Improvement Scientists. Educational Policy, 29(1), 257-277. PAIS Index; Research Library. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904814560886
Tichnor-Wagner, A., Wachen, J., Cannata, M., & Cohen-Vogel, L. (2017). Continuous Improvement in the Public School Context: Understanding How Educators Respond to Plan–Do–Study–Act Cycles. Journal of Educational Change, 18(4), 465–494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-017-9301-4
Bryk, A. S., Gomez, L. M., Grunow, A., & LeMahieu, P. G. (2015). Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better. Harvard Education Press. https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/learning-to-improve
Peurach, D. J. (2016). Innovating at the Nexus of Impact and Improvement: Leading Educational Improvement Networks. Educational Policy, 30(7), 606–648. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X16670898
Peurach, D. J., Glazer, J. L., & Winchell Lenhoff, S. (2016). The Developmental Evaluation of School Improvement Networks. Educational Policy, 30(4), 606–648. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904814557592
Glazer, J. L., & Peurach, D. J. (2013). School Improvement Networks as a Strategy for Large-Scale Education Reform: The Role of Educational Environments. Educational Policy, 27(4), 676–710. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904811429283
Sherer, D., Norman, J., Bryk, A. S., Peurach, D. J., Vasudeva, A., & McMahon, K. (2020). Evidence for improvement: An Integrated Analytic Approach for Supporting Networks in Education. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
Wohlstetter, P., & Lyle, A. G. (2019). Inter-Organizational Networks in Education. In M. Connolly, D. Eddy-Spicer, C. James, & S. Kruse (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of School Organization. SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526465542.n12
Langley, G. J., Moen, R. D., Nolan, K. M., Nolan, T. W., Norman, C. L., & Provost, L. P. (2009). The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance. John Wiley & Sons.
Bryk, A. S., Sebring, P. B., Allensworth, E., Easton, J. Q., & Luppescu, S. (2010). Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago. University of Chicago Press.
Russell, J. L., Bryk, A. S., Dolle, J. R., Gomez, L. M., LeMahieu, P. G., & Grunow, A. (2019, April). The Social Organization of Networked Improvement Communities. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON.
Yamada, H., & Bryk, A. S. (2016). Assessing the First Two Years’ Effectiveness of Statway®: A Multilevel Model With Propensity Score Matching. Community College Review, 44(3), 179–204. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091552116643162
Goodman, D., Ogrinc, G., Davies, L., Baker, G. R., Barnsteiner, J., Foster, T. C., Gali, K., Hilden, J., Horwitz, L., Kaplan, H. C., Leis, J., Matulis, J. C., Michie, S., Miltner, R., Neily, J., Nelson, W. A., Niedner, M., Oliver, B., Rutman, L., … Thor, J. (2016). Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V.2.0: Examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature. BMJ Quality & Safety, 25(12), e7–e7. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004480
Hannan, M., Russell, J. L., Takahashi, S., & Park, S. (2015). Using Improvement Science to Better Support Beginning Teachers: The Case of the Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network. Journal of Teacher Education, 66(5), 494–508. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487115602126
LeMahieu, P. G., Grunow, A., Baker, L., Nordstrum, L. E., & Gomez, L. M. (2017). Networked Improvement Communities: The Discipline of Improvement Science Meets the Power of Networks. Quality Assurance in Education, 25(1), 5–25. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-12-2016-0084
Gomez, L. M., Russell, J. L., Bryk, A. S., LeMahieu, P. G., & Mejia, E. M. (2016). The Right Network for the Right Problem. Phi Delta Kappan, 98(3), 8–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721716677256
Martin, W. G., & Gobstein, H. (2015). Generating a Networked Improvement Community to Improve Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation: Network Leadership, Organization, and Operation. Journal of Teacher Education, 66(5), 482–493. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487115602312
Proger, A., Bhatt, M., Cirks, V., & Gurke, D. (2017). Establishing and Sustaining Networked Improvement Communities: Lessons From Michigan and Minnesota (REL 2017-264; What’s Happening). Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/Products/Publication/3853
Coburn, C. E., & Turner, E. O. (2011). Research on Data Use: A Framework and Analysis. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 9(4), 173–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/15366367.2011.626729
Yamada, H., Bohannon, A. X., Grunow, A., & Thorn, C. A. (2018). Assessing the Effectiveness of Quantway®: A Multilevel Model With Propensity Score Matching. Community College Review, 46(3), 257–287. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091552118771754
Russell, J. L., Bryk, A. S., Dolle, J. R., Gomez, L. M., Lemahieu, P. G., & Grunow, A. (2017). A Framework for the Initiation of Networked Improvement Communities. Teachers College Record, 119(5), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811711900501
Achieving tomorrow's high-performance organizations will involve massive changes throughout their capability infrastructures. The complexity of implementing these changes will be daunting, and deserves a strategic approach. Groupware will support important, special new knowledge capabilities in these infrastructures, and also can play a key role in an evolutionary strategy.
In the past fifty years we have seen enormous growth in computing capability – computing is everywhere and has impacted nearly everything. In this talk, Dr. Douglas Engelbart, who pioneered much of what we now take for granted as interactive computing, examines the forces that have shaped this growth. He argues that our criteria for investment in innovation are, in fact, short-sighted and focused on the wrong things. He proposes, instead, investment in an improvement infrastructure that can result in sustained, radical innovation capable of changing computing and expanding the kinds of problems that we can address through computing. In this talk, Dr. Engelbart describes both the processes that we need to put in place and the capabilities that we must support in order to stimulate this higher rate of innovation. The talk closes with a call to action for this World Library Summit audience, since this is a group that has both a stake in innovation and the ability to shape its direction.
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Christie, C. A., Lemire, S., & Inkelas, M. (2017). Understanding the Similarities and Distinctions Between Improvement Science and Evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, 2017(153), 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.20237
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