Steps to Schoolwide Success

We are beyond excited to announce the release of our newest book! Steps to Schoolwide Success: Systemic Practices for Connecting Social-Emotional and Academic Learning, by Stacey A. Rutledge, Marisa Cannata, Stephanie L. Brown, and Daniel G. Traeger, tells the story of developing, implementing, and scaling an improvement initiative in Broward County Public Schools. Aimed at...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 in News | Comments Off on Steps to Schoolwide Success

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PASL Toolkit is Live!

We are excited to release a new set of tools for educators! Personalization for Academic and Social-Emotional Learning (PASL) is a systemic approach to high school reform with the aim of improving high school students’ academic and social emotional outcomes. With PASL, administrators, counselors, and teachers intentionally attend to students’ academic, social emotional, and behavioral...... KEEP READING

Posted on Monday, January 6th, 2020 in News | Comments Off on PASL Toolkit is Live!

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New Paper on Using a Network-based Approach to Building Student Ownership and Responsibility

Marisa Cannata, Christopher Redding, and Tuan D. Nguyen have a new paper published in Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, entitled Building Student Ownership and Responsibility: Examining Student Outcomes from a Research-Practice Partnership. The paper focuses on the link between a growing emphasis on the importance of co-cognitive traits and the emergence of research-practice partnerships to...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 in News | Comments Off on New Paper on Using a Network-based Approach to Building Student Ownership and Responsibility

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New Paper on Continuous Improvement

A new paper from Christopher Harrison, John Wachen, Stephanie Brown, and Lora Cohen-Vogel, entitled “A View From Within: Lessons Learned From Partnering for Continuous Improvement,” explores continuous improvement and partner-based approaches that have gained popularity recently. These approaches use “structured, iterative processes for developing innovations” between practitioners and school contexts. Published in Teachers College Record,...... KEEP READING

Posted on Monday, November 18th, 2019 in News | Comments Off on New Paper on Continuous Improvement

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New paper on teacher sensemaking about growth mindset

NCSU scholars Susan Kemper Patrick and Ela Joshi released a new paper called, “Set in Stone” or “Willing to Grow”? Teacher sensemaking during a growth mindset initiative, published in the journal Teaching and Teacher Education. This paper examines how teachers in three urban high schools define and explain growth and fixed mindsets. Drawing on sensemaking perspectives,...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 in News | Comments Off on New paper on teacher sensemaking about growth mindset

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Partner school hosts Girl Empowerment Conference

One of our PASL partner schools hosted a Girl Empowerment Conference as part of building a culture of personalization in their school. Read more here.... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 in News | Comments Off on Partner school hosts Girl Empowerment Conference

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Co-creating innovations and teacher ownership

Research suggests a number of benefits from teacher participation in school improvement—chief among them that it can increase teacher receptivity to innovation and reform adoption. Improvement science has been put forward as a new paradigm for involving local school stakeholders in the improvement process. A new article by Christopher Redding and Samantha Viano explores the...... KEEP READING

Posted on Monday, January 28th, 2019 in News | Comments Off on Co-creating innovations and teacher ownership

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Dilemmas of Research-Practice Partnerships

The National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools has worked in partnership with two of the nation’s largest school districts since 2010 to test an improvement process that brings together researchers, developers, and educators to scale collaboratively designed innovations aimed at reducing disparities in educational attainment. In this article, we draw on this partnership work...... KEEP READING

Posted on Monday, November 12th, 2018 in News | Comments Off on Dilemmas of Research-Practice Partnerships

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System learning for organizational change

Improvement requires learning. When we are trying to improve an organization, we need to attend to not just individual learning, but collective learning. This paper presents evidence from a unique reform model that allowed teachers and other educators in a large urban district to collaborate with one another in the development of an innovation meant...... KEEP READING

Posted on Friday, February 23rd, 2018 in News | Comments Off on System learning for organizational change

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Special Issue on New Frontiers in Scaling Up Research

The past several decades have seen a substantial amount of time, resources, and expertise focused on producing sustainable improvement in schools at scale. Research on these efforts have highlighted how complex this challenge is, as it needs to attend to building teacher support and participation, aligning with the organizational context, and building capacity among stakeholders...... KEEP READING

Posted on Thursday, October 12th, 2017 in News | Comments Off on Special Issue on New Frontiers in Scaling Up Research

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Research on educator engagement in continuous improvement

Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, John Wachen, Marisa Cannata, and Lora Cohen-Vogel have published a new paper in the Journal of Educational Change. This article, “Continuous Improvement in the public school context: Understanding how educators respond to plan-do-study-act cycles” reports on what we’ve learned about introducing continuous improvement research in two large school districts.The last 5 years have...... KEEP READING

Posted on Monday, July 31st, 2017 in News | Comments Off on Research on educator engagement in continuous improvement

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New paper on effective high schools

Marisa Cannata, Thomas Smith, and Katherine Taylor Haynes have published a new paper in AERA Open. This article, “Integrating Academic Press and Support by Increasing Student Ownership and Responsibility” reports the results of our intensive case study research on higher and lower performing high schools in one of our partner districts. Using a mixed methods...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, June 20th, 2017 in News | Comments Off on New paper on effective high schools

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Scaling Up Research at AERA 2017

After almost seven years of working with our partner districts, we have a lot of things to share on what we’ve learned about scaling up effective practices. Here is a complete schedule for presentations at AERA 2017. See you in San Antonio! Thursday, April 27, 2017: 2:15 p.m. -3:45 p.m. – Poster Session – Convention...... KEEP READING

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Upcoming: Teacher Leadership conference, AEFP, and Carnegie Summit

Researchers and practitioners from the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools are presenting at several upcoming national conferences. Teacher Leadership Conference The University of Florida is hosting the International Teacher Leadership Conference on March 2-3, 2017 in Miami, FL. This conference is designed to bring together scholars and practitioners to examine issues around teacher...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 in News | Comments Off on Upcoming: Teacher Leadership conference, AEFP, and Carnegie Summit

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Yearbook on Mapping the High School Reform Landscape

We are excited to release the Teachers College Yearbook on Mapping the High School Reform Landscape! Read it here. While there has been a proliferation of high school reform models and interventions over the past few decades aimed at improving the nation’s high schools—including increasing graduation requirements, introducing technology to classrooms, grouping 9th grade students...... KEEP READING

Posted on Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 in News | Comments Off on Yearbook on Mapping the High School Reform Landscape

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