March 2022

Resources
Carnegie publications, videos, and tools are designed as resources to support others who are eager to engage in improvement work to achieve effectiveness with reliability at scale.
Publications
May 2021
The Social Structure of Networked Improvement Communities: Cultivating the Emergence of a Scientific-Professional Learning Community
By Jennifer Russell, Anthony S. Bryk, Donald J. Peurach, David Sherer, Paul LeMahieu, Edit Khachatryan, Jennifer Z. Sherer, Maggie Hannan

How do networked improvement communities (NICs) create a social structure to catalyze the type of community that can solve complex problems? Based upon prior theorizing, research literature, and observations of developing NICs, here we describe a framework for use as an analytic tool for understanding NIC emergence and maturation.
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Tools
Networked Improvement Learning and Support (NILS™)
NILS is an online platform designed to facilitate the initiation and development of NICs working on shared problems of practice in a disciplined manner.
Learn MoreLearning to Improve Glossary
This glossary organizes a selection of key terms used in the book, Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better, that have formal meaning.
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