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Overview

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, systems, and workflows within an organization by fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement

Duration

26 hours

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Difficulty level

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Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Develop leadership capabilities to empower local stakeholders
  • Learn how continuous improvement can be used to develop equitable educational solutions
  • Design a local improvement plan that can be implemented in your educational contexts
More about this course
  • Practicing Collaborative, Continuous Improvement supports local change agents in developing foundational capabilities for iterative analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation
  • Learn to address local needs, opportunities, and problems, with a focus on improvement science as a specific approach to collaborative, continuous improvement that is useful in classrooms, communities, schools, and systems
  • Under the guidance of leading researchers, learners develop capabilities to map systems that underlie persistent educational problems; identify a shared theory of (and ideas for) improvement; iteratively implement, measure, and refine potential solutions using plan-do-study-act cycles; and sustain and spread improvement within and beyond their local contexts
  • Learners also compare such work as enacted in improvement science and other approaches to collaborative, continuous improvement
  • Learners then develop a detailed plan for initiating a local improvement project to advance new ambitions for educational access, quality, and equity in their local contexts
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Practicing Collaborative, Continuous Improvement
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Curriculum

Course Kickoff

2.3. A Personal Welcome

2.5. Personal Welcomes from our ISN Colleagues

5.2. A Friendly Visit with Prof. Peurach

1.1. Welcome to the Course Kickoff!

2.1. Course Overview

2.2. Meet Your Host

2.4. Meet Your Instructors

3.1. Join the Course Community

3.2. Join the Transforming Education Community

4.1. Download the Study Guide

4.2. What's New in Course 3

4.3. Complete the CAI Pre-Course Survey

5.1. We're Here for You!

6.1. Our Colleagues in Transforming Education

1. Building Foundations

2.2. Improvement Science 101

2.3. Learning and Equity in Improvement Science

2.4. The Six Principles of Improvement Science

2.5. Academy for Success: Introduction

2.7. Academy for Success: An Improvement Journey

2.8. Academy for Success: Principles & Grammar of Improvement

1.1. Overview

1.2. Objective and Pre-Lesson Reflection

2.1. Presentation Overview

2.6. Academy for Success: A Case Study

3.1. Enrichment Overview

3.2. Leveraging Open Access Resources

3.3. Engaging the Improvement Scholars Network

3.4. Exploring Other Approaches

4.1. Reflection Overview

4.2. Revisiting and Reviewing

4.3. Clarifying and Contributing

4.4. Reconsidering

5.1. Community Engagement Overview

5.3 Organize for Team Practice

5.4. Join the Community Forum

6.1. Summarizing and Synthesizing Overview

6.2. Consolidating Your Learning

6.3. Engaging Your Local Improvement Team

6.4. Thank you!

7.1. Overview - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.1. Overview - Course Leaders

7.2. Lesson 1 Assignment - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.2. Lesson 1 Assignment - Course Leaders

5.2. Gallery Walk Introductions and Welcome

2. Mapping Challenges

2.2. Introduction to Mapping the Challenge Space

2.3. Introduction to User-Centeredness

2.4. Introduction to Problem Articulation Tools

2.5. Problem Articulation in Action

1.1. Overview

1.2. Objective and Pre-Lesson Reflection

2.1. Presentation Overview

3.1. Enrichment Overview

3.2. Leveraging Open Access Resources

3.3. Engaging the Improvement Scholars Network

3.4. Exploring Other Approaches

4.1. Reflection Overview

4.2. Revisiting and Reviewing

4.3. Clarifying and Contributing

4.4. Reconsidering

5.1. Community Engagement Overview

5.2. Team Practice Exercise

5.4. Join the Community Forum

6.1. Summarizing and Synthesizing Overview

6.2. Consolidating Your Learning

6.3. Engaging Your Local Improvement Team

6.4. Taking Stock

7.1. Overview - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.1. Overview - Course Leaders

7.2. Lesson 2 Assignment - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.2. Lesson 2 Assignment - Course Leaders

5.3. Gallery Walk

3. Developing Theories

2.2. Introduction to a Theory of Improvement

2.3. Identifying an Improvement Aim

2.4. Understanding Drivers and Driver Diagrams

2.5. Change Ideas

2.6. What Now? Review & Next Steps

1.1. Overview

1.2. Objective and Pre-Lesson Reflection

2.1. Presentation Overview

3.1. Enrichment Overview

3.2. Leveraging Open Access Resources

3.3. Engaging the Improvement Scholars Network

3.4. Exploring Other Approaches

4.1. Reflection Overview

4.2. Revisiting and Reviewing

4.3 Clarifying and Contributing

4.4. Reconsidering

5.1. Community Engagement Overview

5.2. Team Practice Exercise

5.4. Join the Community Forum

6.1. Summarizing and Synthesizing Overview

6.2. Consolidating Your Learning

6.3. Engaging Your Local Improvement Team

6.4. Taking Stock

7.1. Overview - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.1. Overview - Course Leaders

7.2. Lesson 3 Assignment - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.2. Lesson 3 Assignment - Course Leaders

5.3. Gallery Walk

4. Iterating & Measuring

2.2. Iterating on Your Theory of Improvement

2.3. Brief Introduction to PDSA Cycles

2.4. Ways to Measure Implementation and Outcomes

2.5. Embedding Practical Measurement in Your Setting

2.6. Merging Practical Measurement with PDSA Cycles

1.1. Overview

1.2. Objective and Pre-Lesson Reflection

2.1. Presentation Overview

3.1. Enrichment Overview

3.2. Leveraging Open Access Resources

3.3. Engaging the Improvement Scholars Network

3.4. Exploring Other Approaches

4.1. Reflection Overview

4.2. Revisiting and Reviewing

4.3 Clarifying and Contributing

4.4. Reconsidering

5.1. Community Engagement Overview

5.2. Team Practice Exercise

5.4. Join the Community Forum

6.1. Summarizing and Synthesizing Overview

6.2. Consolidating Your Learning

6.3. Engaging Your Local Improvement Team

6.4. Taking Stock

7.1. Overview - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.1. Overview - Course Leaders

7.2. Lesson 4 Assignment - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.2. Lesson 4 Assignment - Course Leaders

5.3. Gallery Walk

5. Spreading & Sustaining

2.2. The Scaling Trap

2.3. Change Packages

2.4. Key Questions for Spreading Change

2.5. Organizing for Adaptation

2.6. From Spread to Scale

1.1. Overview

1.2. Objective and Pre-Lesson Reflection

2.1. Presentation Overview

3.1. Enrichment Overview

3.2. Leveraging Open Access Resources

3.3. Engaging the Improvement Scholars Network

3.4. Exploring Other Approaches

4.1. Reflection Overview

4.2. Revisiting and Reviewing

4.3 Clarifying and Contributing

4.4. Reconsidering

5.1. Community Engagement Overview

5.2. Team Practice Exercise

5.4. Join the Community Forum

6.1. Summarizing and Synthesizing Overview

6.2. Consolidating Your Learning

6.3. Engaging Your Local Improvement Team

6.4. Taking Stock

7.1. Overview - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.1. Overview - Course Leaders

7.2. Lesson 5 Assignment – Course Participants & Leaders

7*.2. Lesson 5 Assignment – Course Leaders

5.3. Gallery Walk

6. Organizing & Iterating

2.2. Reflections: The Principles of Improvement Science

2.3. Problems of Practice and Theories of Improvement

2.4. Building Capacity for Collaborative, Continuous Improvement

2.5. Improvement Networks

2.6. Sustaining Collaborative, Continuous Improvement

3.4. A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Bryk

1.1. Overview

1.2. Objective and Pre-Lesson Reflection

2.1. Presentation Overview

3.1. Enrichment Overview

3.2. Leveraging Open Access Resources

3.3. Engaging the Improvement Scholars Network

4.1. Reflection Overview

4.2. Revisiting and Reviewing

4.3. Developing Your Charter

4.4 Clarifying and Contributing

4.5. Reconsidering

5.1. Community Engagement Overview

5.2. Team Practice Exercise

5.4. Join the Community Forum

6.1. Summarizing and Synthesizing Overview

6.2. Consolidating Your Learning

6.3. Engaging Your Local Improvement Team

6.4. Taking Stock

7.1. Overview - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.1. Overview - Course Leaders

7.2. Lesson 6 Assignment - Course Participants & Leaders

7*.2. Lesson 6 Assignment - Course Leaders

5.3. Gallery Walk Introductions and Welcome

Course Wrap-Up

1.3. An Informal "Thank You" from Prof. Peurach

1.1. Congratulations!

1.4. An Official "Thank You" from Our Entire Team!

1.5. CAI End-of-Course Survey

1.2. Celebrate Your Success!

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