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ERIC Number: ED665401
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 53
Abstractor: ERIC
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Improving for Impact and Equity: Voices of the Improver Community
Barbara Shreve; Kelly McMahon; Erika Nielsen Andrew
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
In the spring of 2023, the authors set out to gather stories from people across the field of education who identify as using continuous improvement and improvement science in their work. More than 300 people offered their reflections about their experiences and their work through a survey, interviews, user-generated video reflections, or focus group conversations. They shared stories about the challenges they are using improvement to address, how their work has changed through using improvement, and why they continue to turn to improvement science to reach their goals. People were also invited to share reflections about what has enabled their work, and to look ahead to what might support more widespread use of improvement. This report represents the voices of those who shared their stories. The purpose of this report is to enable the improvement community, collectively, to begin to make sense of where it is now and what it needs going forward in order to continue getting better at getting better. In preparing this report, the authors sought to understand any areas of commonality and divergence across responses; what emerged as they listened and read what was a picture of a shared improver identity. Participants reported focusing on similar problems in their improvement work, with many describing an explicit focus on achieving more equitable outcomes and systems. This report, as one part of this larger storytelling project, reflects the authors honest, good faith summaries of the stories they heard and aspires to provoke more sharing, reflecting, collective sense-making and storytelling.
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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