Support deep CI implementation through capacity inventories, gradual-release coaching, structured collaboration opportunities, and student voice¶

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Description¶

The report's implications section recommends actions for intermediaries and school system leaders pursuing networked continuous improvement. Intermediaries may use a capacity inventory process before teams join a network and periodically thereafter, use coaching grounded in a gradual release of responsibility to promote school-site ownership, and facilitate collaboration through convenings, role-alike meetings, spotlight protocols, and knowledge management systems. At the school level, using student voice in root cause analyses and inquiry cycles is described as a promising way to gain insight into students' assets, needs, and context, and sustainability planning should promote local ownership and ongoing knowledge sharing.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• School leaders' support and provision of planning time and resources are described as important enablers of CI work

Constraints¶

• The report notes these changes toward greater structure and flexibility may have limited full implementation of continuous improvement methods

Target Learners¶

• School CI teams in networks serving Black, Latino, and students experiencing poverty

Target Learning Goals¶

• Building educator capacity to use continuous improvement to improve student outcomes

Affordances¶

• Nsi Conceptual Framework Networked Ci

Related Strategies¶

• Pursue continuous collaboration between digital learning platform providers and school districts, with teacher training, to interconnect platform use with instruction
• Structure R&D teams for student critical mass, processing time, and collaboration to dispel intimidation
• District actions for sustained, equitable impact with powerful technology
• System-level strategies to build enabling conditions for Powerful Learning

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Evaluation of the Networks for School Improvement Initiative: Interim Summary Report. (2024). RAND Corporation. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA242-1.html