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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on March 18, 2020 in News

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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,…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on May 1, 2019 in News

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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.

Posted by Marisa Cannata on April 2, 2019 in News

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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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on January 28, 2019 in News

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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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on November 12, 2018 in News

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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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on February 23, 2018 in News

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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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on October 12, 2017 in News

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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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on July 31, 2017 in News

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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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on June 20, 2017 in News

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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…

Posted by Marisa Cannata on April 14, 2017 in News

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