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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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…

Posted by Mary Frances Street on January 6, 2020 in News

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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…

Posted by Mary Frances Street on December 18, 2019 in News

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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,…

Posted by Mary Frances Street on November 18, 2019 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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